This Trump appointee was just fired for going on antigay Twitter rampage

Merritt Corrigan & Tucker Carlson
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Meet Merritt Corrigan, the former deputy White House liaison at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) whose recent tweets about LGBTQ people and refugees went too far even for the Trump administration — and that’s saying a lot.

USAID is the country’s key foreign aid and international development agency, working on projects from security to public health.

Even when Corrigan first joined the agency in June, there were red flags everywhere. ProPublica looked into her social media presence and found statements attacking the nation’s “homo-empire” for pursuing a “tyrannical LGBT agenda.”

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But hey, she still landed the job.

Then her tweets got even worse. In one attack on refugees and immigrants, she posted: “America has…

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