President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy consultant to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims, together with suggesting that former President Barack Obama was a secret Muslim bent on harming America.
A NCS KFile overview of Bruce’s weblog posts, social media posts, columns and radio commentaries beginning within the early 2000s exhibits a sample of demeaning language about Muslims, together with suggesting that American Muslims wanted to show their loyalty after the September 11, 2001, terrorist assaults. Other feedback focused Muslim-majority nations Bruce must work with on the UN.
Many of these statements have been revealed between the early 2000s and late 2010s on her private weblog, which is not on-line. But they have been preserved by way of the Internet Archive and impartial watchdog teams that monitor conservative media.
Bruce, at the moment the chief spokesperson for the State Department, was nominated for the high-level diplomatic submit in August. Her nomination was formally sent to the Senate in September, and her affirmation listening to earlier than the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled for Wednesday.
“Tammy Bruce will represent our Country brilliantly at the United Nations,” Trump introduced on Truth Social in August.
Neither Bruce nor the White House responded to NCS’s requests for remark for this story.
Speaking of then-President Obama, Bruce referred to Obama as a “Kenyan,” “idiot,” and “dumb bastard,” in posts relationship again to 2010. She falsely steered he was Muslim, at one level saying that Obama had “compulsion to confess” he was Muslim when throughout a 2008 ABC interview Obama by accident mentioned “my Muslim faith” whereas discussing rumors about him. George Stephanopoulos instantly corrected him, and Obama immediately clarified “my Christian faith.” She additionally raised questions about his delivery certificates.
“Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot,” she added in one of multiple feedback on her private weblog.
A former liberal turned conservative radio host, Bruce argued in a number of writings reviewed by NCS that the US was overly deferential towards American Muslims who wanted to show their loyalty.
“Since the attacks on our country, we have indeed been kissing the proverbial derriere of the American Muslim establishment, and it’s time we stopped,” she wrote in July 2002. “It is now their turn to do the right thing and go out of their way to show us that they are American – first and foremost.”
“(The) Muslim establishment in this country should be tripping over themselves to prove they’re with us and are loyal and sympathetic,” she added.
Her nomination additionally comes at a time when the US is working with Muslim-majority nations on the disaster in Gaza, one thing that would doubtlessly be sophisticated by Bruce’s harsh anti-Muslim language, which included calls for regime change in Saudi Arabia and referring to its ruling household as “beasts.”
In a 2002 column, Bruce recounted an look by Queen Noor of Jordan on NCS’s “Larry King Live” within the weeks following the September 11 assaults. Bruce wrote that King requested the queen — an American-born Christian who transformed to Islam — what Americans may do to indicate Muslims around the globe that “we’re not bad people,” calling it “a reasonable question.”
“The appropriate question to her would have been how can you convince us that Muslims aren’t bad people? After all, it was a reasonable question after September 11, and it oddly remains the question as we continue to give the Muslim establishment a free pass in our efforts to prove we aren’t racist.”
“It’s time we get off our knees and make it clear to the American-Muslim establishment that we have a few requirements of our own, and that it’s time they put up as American-first or shut up, and perhaps even get out if they haven’t bothered to renew their visas,” Bruce added.
“From what I’ve seen, the fat-cat Muslim Elite in this country are indeed loyal – just not to the United States,” she later concluded.
Bruce’s nomination comes amidst Trump’s long-running feud with the United Nations, through which he has questioned the efficacy of its group and monetary commitments. Bruce herself has criticized the UN in even harsher phrases than the president. In posts from 2006, she attacked the UN, incessantly referring to it as America’s “enemy.”
She also called it a failure for its “financial corruption…ignoring of genocide, and the Jew-hatred at its core” and known as to “tear down the UN.”
Bruce additionally known as the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” proposal an emblem of Muslim conquest.
“There’s only one group of people who were mass murdered on 9/11 and that was Americans, not Muslims,” she wrote in 2010 whereas opposing plans to construct an Islamic group middle close to Ground Zero — a undertaking critics on the time derisively labeled the “Ground Zero mosque.”
The so-called “Ground Zero mosque” was never constructed as deliberate. After the backlash, the positioning was repurposed for a rental undertaking that later stalled amid monetary and authorized setbacks.
“I’m convinced this mosque was Obama’s idea,” she added. “The notion of it and its location. I think he knows he’ll be a one-term president and wants as much destruction to the American psyche as possible. The legacy this man is now establishing is a continuation of the terrorism unleashed in the 90s and defined by 9/11.”
Another 2002 column mentioned the case of Eunice Stone, a Georgia girl who known as police after saying she overheard three Muslim males joking about 9/11 and speaking a few terrorist assault. The report sparked a significant police response, together with shutting down a freeway, however authorities later mentioned there was no proof of terrorism and launched the lads. Bruce praised Stone as a “true American” and attacked the lads.
“Being an American is a frame of mind, which includes commitment and loyalty,” she wrote, suggesting that the lads — regardless of the 2 being US residents — lacked each.
Other posts attacked the Empire State Building for lighting up inexperienced to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in 2007, calling it an insult to Americans who died in the course of the September eleventh assaults.
“Yes, you heard me right,” she wrote. “Now the tallest building in New York, because Islamists knocked down the other two tallest buildings in New York in their act of mass murder, will be commemorating the end of Ramadan by going green from Friday through Sunday. This must stop. This act is an insult to every who dies on September 11, but to the 4,000 plus who have died fighting Islamists since then.”
Bruce continued, “all this pandering sends a message to the enemy and everyone else that we must feel guilty about something, which of course, confirms in the minds of the genocidal enemy that they’re right to kill us.”
In a 2010 radio broadcast, Bruce mentioned Obama’s election represented a potential “first surrender,” within the eyes of Muslims.
“(W)hat kind of resistance will the American people put forward now that we’ve got a guy named Barack Hussein Obama in the White House, maybe they’re thinking that was the first surrender and because this guy’s gonna be a one term president, this is a major push to one, to just punch the Americans in the face one more time to see what they’ll do,” Bruce mentioned in 2010.
In one other episode in 2010, Bruce, referring to Obama as “Urkel,” mentioned she wouldn’t put it previous Obama to secretly need America harmed by nuclear materials from North Korea.
“Now maybe I’m naïve of thinking that the military’s gonna be able to keep a really bad thing from happening if ‘Urkel’ does not have the courage – or even perhaps secretly wishes this nation to be harmed,” she mentioned. “I wouldn’t put that past him. His mother certainly did. His friends certainly do. Why would he be out of that loop? I’m just looking at the facts as we know them.”
Bruce additionally incessantly criticized Saudi Arabia and its “so-called royal family,” referring to them as “beasts” and “tyrants.” In a post from August 2007 she wrote, “Saudi Arabia is the enemy, in so may [sic] ways. For us to continue to support this monstrous regime is unconscionable. The Saudis, which includes the so-called ‘royal’ family and the religious elite (the cancerous Wahabbist terrorist enemy) both need to be vanquished from this earth.”
Bruce additionally focused the Bush administration for its pleasant ties to Saudi Arabia, as soon as referring to the regime as “Laura Bush’s friends” and criticizing the administration for being “completely supportive” of a nation that reportedly sentenced a rape sufferer to 200 lashes and 6 months in jail.