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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a trove of deleted tweets written by senior Energy Department official William C. Bradford surfaced this week ? and it’s not pretty.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bradford, whom President Donald Trump recently appointed to lead the department’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, was forced to issue an apology after The Washington Post revealed his disparaging remarks about women and various ethnic and religious groups on Thursday.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His tweets, written last year, attacked high-profile figures on the basis of their ethnic and religious heritage and defended the wartime incarceration of Japanese-Americans, among other things.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a December 2016 tweet, Bradford referred to former<b> President Barack Obama as a “Kenyan creampuff.”</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In another tweet, he dubiously claimed Obama might refuse to leave The White House at the end of his presidential term and suggested a “military coup” could be necessary to remove him.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TWITTER/WASHINGTON POST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In February 2016, responding to an article that claimed Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg had urged Iowans not to vote for Trump, Bradford called the tech leader an “arrogant self-hating Jew.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TWITTER/WASHINGTON POST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A few weeks later, Bradford said it was “necessary” to incarcerate nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent in the U.S. during World War II.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former President Ronald Reagan apologized decades ago for the so-called evacuation and internment of Japanese-Americans, widely considered one of the darkest chapters in American history.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TWITTER/WASHINGTON POST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bradford also used Twitter to condemn female soldiers who serve in combat roles, saying they “have no business” doing so, before boasting that he would “shoot anyone that comes for [his] daughters.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Bradford acknowledged the deleted tweets and apologized for his “disrespectful” comments in an email to the Post on Thursday.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“As a minority and member of the Jewish faith, I sincerely apologize for my disrespectful and offensive comments,”</span> wrote Bradford, a member of the Chiricahua Apache Nation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“These comments are inexcusable and I do not stand by them. Now, as a public servant, I hold myself to a higher standard, and I will work every day to better the lives of all Americans.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As director of the Office of Indian Energy, Bradford oversees energy development initiatives that assist American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Though he will be supervising programs and grants that could affect the environment and the well-being of Native American communities, one of Bradford’s deleted tweets appears to question climate change. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TWITTER/WASHINGTON POST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At least 97 percent of climate scientists say global warming is overwhelmingly the result of human activity and poses a major threat.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bradford’s deleted tweets aren’t the first inflammatory comments to thrust him into the media spotlight. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In August 2015, he resigned from his position as a West Point law professor amid backlash over an article he published that urged attacks on Islamic holy sites. A month earlier, The Guardian reported that he had inflated his military and academic credentials.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A representative for the Department of Energy declined to comment on Bradford’s statements. Bradford repeated his public statement in an email to HuffPost, but did not comment further. The White House did not reply to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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