Carl Higbie

Carl Higbie

Trump appointee resigns after racist comments. Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday as chief of external affairs for the federal government's volunteer service organization after a CNN KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio.

Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and conservative media personality, was appointed to the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2017 to direct the public image and messaging of the federal department that manages millions of Americans in volunteer services like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps.

In one of the comments unearthed by KFile, Higbie said you could "Guess the color" of a family he described that lived in his condo association. Ref. CNN.