By Jennifer Hansler, Christian Sierra
1小时51分钟前
发布于2026年2月12日，美国东部时间晚上7:30
特朗普政府提名的国务院高级职位候选人杰里米·卡尔（Jeremy Carl），在两党参议员就其历史上的种族主义、性别歧视及被指反犹言论和帖子进行严厉质询后，几乎不可能获得该职位。
犹他州共和党参议员约翰·柯蒂斯（John Curtis）在周四激烈的参议院外交关系委员会确认听证会后发表声明称，他不会支持卡尔担任负责国际组织事务的助理国务卿提名。
“在回顾他的记录并参与今天的听证会之后，我认为杰里米·卡尔不是在国际论坛上代表我国最佳利益的合适人选，我认为他的反以色列观点和对犹太人民无礼的言论不符合他所提名职位的要求，”柯蒂斯表示。
这位共和党人的反对可能会导致卡尔的提名失败——如果委员会中的所有民主党议员也投反对票，他将无法获得推进提名所需的票数。参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）也反对他的提名。
周四晚间，一位白宫官员告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN），卡尔仍然是被提名者。
2025年9月，CNN的KFile（KFile是CNN的政治新闻团队）曝光，卡尔删除了数千条社交媒体帖子，其中许多帖子显示出煽动性言论历史——包括关于种族的煽动性帖子、声称与民主党“和平共处”是不可能的言论，甚至呼吁政治对手面临死刑。
卡尔还多次提及“大替换”（Great Replacement）阴谋论，该理论认为存在一个将非白人移民故意带入西方国家以“取代”白人人口的阴谋。
在周四的听证会上，新罕布什尔州民主党参议员吉恩·沙欣（Jeanne Shaheen）指出，卡尔在2024年的播客中据称称“犹太人常常喜欢扮演受害者”，并且“大屠杀主导了现代犹太历史”。委员会排名第二的沙欣表示，自提名以来，卡尔“发了850多条推文，出现在5个播客中，并重复了这种言论”。
“这是一种模式，”她表示。
“如果在被提名期间你都无法约束自己，我们很难相信你，”她对他说。
卡尔辩称，他理解“克制和行为的重要性”。
“不幸的是，我必须在这与我目前涉及倡导工作的职位之间取得平衡。正如我所解释的，我不能完全放弃我的日常工作，”他说。卡尔是保守派智库克莱尔蒙特研究所（Claremont Institute）的高级研究员。他曾在唐纳德·特朗普总统第一任期内担任内政部副部长助理。
在与民主党参议员科里·布克（Cory Booker）的交流中，卡尔表示他对过去一些关于犹太人的评论感到后悔。
“我在采访中发表了一些淡化大屠杀影响的评论，这些评论绝对是错误的。我不会坐在这里为它们辩护，”他说。
然而，当被追问是否后悔针对其他种族的言论时，卡尔表示他正在“呼应”特朗普的观点，即“团结而非多样性是一种优势”。
康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲（Chris Murphy）称卡尔的提名“令人心碎”，并称他“完全不具备该职位的资格”。墨菲花了几分钟时间质问卡尔关于“反白人歧视”和“白人文化的抹杀”的观点。
卡尔在回答什么构成“白人文化”的问题时显得有些吃力，但他暗示“大规模移民”正在抹去“共同的美国文化”，并表示这“削弱了我们”。
犹他州共和党人柯蒂斯追问卡尔，鉴于他之前的言论，他将如何在联合国抵制所谓的反以色列偏见。
犹太裔民主党参议员杰克·罗森（Jacky Rosen）称卡尔过去的言论“恶毒”，并表示他的提名“应该让每一位相信基本体面的参议员感到担忧”。
美国有线电视新闻网已就卡尔的提名向国务院寻求置评。2025年9月，国务院和白宫发言人都为被提名人辩护。
CNN的安德鲁·卡钦斯基（Andrew Kaczynski）、埃姆·斯泰克（Em Steck）和摩根·里默（Morgan Rimmer）对本报道有贡献。
Bipartisan opposition over inflammatory comments likely to sink Trump State Dept. nominee
By Jennifer Hansler, Christian Sierra
1 hr 51 min ago
PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2026, 7:30 PM ET
Jeremy Carl, the Trump administration’s pick for a top State Department position, is unlikely to get the job after a bipartisan group of senators grilled him over his history of racist, sexist and reported antisemitic comments and posts.
Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah said in a statement following the heated Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing Thursday that he would not support Carl’s nomination for assistant secretary of state for international organizations.
“After reviewing his record and participating in today’s hearing, I do not believe that Jeremy Carl is the right person to represent our nation’s best interests in international forums, and I find his anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people unbecoming of the position for which he has been nominated,” Curtis said.
The Republican’s opposition is likely to sink Carl’s nomination – if all Democrats on the committee also vote no, he will not have the votes to advance. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has also opposed his nomination.
A White House official told CNN on Thursday evening that Carl is still the nominee.
CNN’s KFile uncovered in September 2025 that Carl deleted thousands of social media posts, many demonstrating a history of inflammatory commentary – including incendiary posts about race, claims that “peaceful coexistence” with Democrats is impossible, and even a call for a political opponent to face the death penalty.
Carl also repeatedly wrote about the “Great Replacement,” a conspiracy theory that posits there is a plot to intentionally bring non-White immigrants into Western countries to “replace” White populations.
In his hearing Thursday, Carl was pressed on those past comments and others, including a 2024 podcast appearance in which he reportedly said, “Jews have often loved to play the victim,” and that “the Holocaust dominates so much of modern Jewish history,” according to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat.
Shaheen, the ranking member of the committee, said that since his nomination, Carl had “tweeted more than 850 times, appeared on five podcasts and repeated this language.”
“This is a pattern,” she said.
“It’s hard to understand how we can trust you if you can’t even restrain yourself during the period in which you’ve been nominated,” she told him.
Carl argued that he understands “the importance of restraint and conduct.”
“I unfortunately have to balance that with my current job which involves advocacy. I can’t, as I’ve explained, just totally put away my day job,” he said. Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank. He served as a former deputy assistant secretary at the Interior Department during President Donald Trump’s first term.
In an exchange with Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, Carl said he regretted some of his past comments about Jewish people.
“I made some comments in interviews about minimizing the effect of the Holocaust that were absolutely wrong. And I’m not going to sit here and defend them here,” he said.
However, pressed on whether he regretted comments he has made about other races, Carl said he was “echoing” Trump that “unity rather than diversity is a strength.”
Sen. Chris Murphy said that Carl’s nomination was “heartbreaking,” calling him “wildly unqualified” for the position. The Connecticut Democrat spent several minutes questioning Carl on views about “anti-White discrimination” and “the erasure of White culture.”
Carl struggled to answer Murphy’s questions on what constitutes “White culture,” but alluded to “mass immigration” erasing “common American culture” and saying that it “weakens us.”
Curtis, the Utah Republican, pressed Carl on how he would be able to stand up to alleged anti-Israel bias at the United Nations given his previous comments.
And Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen, who is Jewish, called Carl’s past comments “vile” and said his nomination “should alarm every Senator who believes in basic decency.”
CNN has reached out to the State Department about Carl’s nomination. In September 2025, spokespeople for both the department and the White House defended the nominee.
CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Morgan Rimmer contributed to this report.
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