Fashion-Forward Senior White House Official’s Hurried Deletion of His Official Anti-Police, Anti-Israel Posts Is Subject of Ethics Complaint: Tyler Cherry Promoted Twice, Called US a Racist ‘Police State’
- October 15, 2024
Thomas Catenacci, Free Beacon
A government watchdog group accused the Biden-Harris administration of violating federal ethics requirements by allowing controversial communications official Tyler Cherry, whom the administration recently promoted to White House associate communications director, to delete social media posts from his verified government account on X and subsequently make the account private, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
According to a complaint filed on Tuesday by Protect the Public’s Trust and obtained by the Free Beacon, Cherry, who had been the communications director for the Interior Department, deleted nearly 2,500 posts from his verified government X account and blocked the account from public view immediately after he landed the top role in the White House’s communications office in June.
For months, Cherry has faced criticism over now-deleted social media posts in which he accused Israel of occupying Palestinian territory, attacked police officers as racist and likened policing to slavery, blasted the “capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases,” argued that the Republican Party is focused on “white grievance politics,” and repeatedly boosted the “Russiagate” conspiracy theory during the Trump administration.
“The department failed to control a social media account and allowed its posts to be destroyed, possibly in violation of federal records laws,” Protect the Public’s Trust director Michael Chamberlain told the Free Beacon. “But why did Interior leadership permit this account to obtain verification as a government account, and to be representative of the department, in the first place?”
“It contained posts that, aside from being controversial, are contrary to the Biden-Harris administration’s stated agenda,” Chamberlain continued. “The fact that Mr. Cherry saw fit to delete his old posts and issue a statement essentially disavowing the more controversial ones is evidence that he or someone above him belatedly realized they were a problem.”