{"id":2444507,"date":"2025-06-08T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-fired-trump-gives-the-ax-to-entire-committee-full-of-anti-american-historians\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:22:14","slug":"youre-fired-trump-gives-the-ax-to-entire-committee-full-of-anti-american-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-fired-trump-gives-the-ax-to-entire-committee-full-of-anti-american-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Fired: Trump Gives the Ax to Entire Committee Full of Anti-American Historians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoure-fired-trump-gives-the-ax-to-entire-committee-full-of-anti-american-historians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2444507&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump recently dismissed all members of the Advisory Committee on Past Diplomatic Documentation, a non-partisan group that advises the State Department on the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series. The terminations were made without any clarification, adn the decision has drawn criticism, particularly toward former committee member Timothy Naftali, who has been accused of having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-destroyed-in-wyoming-gop-straw-poll-by-trump-backed-candidate\/\" title=\"Liz Cheney Destroyed In Wyoming GOP Straw Poll By ...-Backed Candidate\">anti-trump views<\/a>. Naftali&#8217;s termination was announced publicly, prompting discussions regarding biases within the committee.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is responsible for ensuring that vital documents and reports regarding U.S. foreign policy are published accurately and in a timely manner,<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >including making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">classified documents<\/a> accessible<\/a> to the public when appropriate. The chair of the committee, James Goldgeier, and other members have faced scrutiny for their perceived biases against Trump, especially during his handling of significant issues like the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Goldgeier has voiced concerns about the committee&#8217;s disbandment,highlighting its congressional mandate to exist. Despite the dismissals, a senior State Department official indicated that there are plans to maintain the committee, suggesting that it may simply involve appointing new members rather than eliminating the group entirely. This situation raises questions about the influence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-officials-biden-linked-firm-colluded-with-big-tech-to-censor-election-posts-judicial-watch\/\" title=\"California Officials, Biden-Linked Firm Colluded With Big Tech to Censor Election ...s: Judicial Watch\">perceived political bias<\/a> on historical documentation and record-keeping in U.S.foreign policy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump fired all members of the supposedly non-partisan Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation last month via .<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is terminated effective immediately,&rdquo; White House liaison to the State Department Cate Dillon wrote in one of the dismissal s, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2025\/05\/28\/us-foreign-policy-state-department-historical-record-trump-firing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No reason for the terminations were provided to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>However, after one of the committee&rsquo;s former members, Canadian-American historian Timothy Naftali, announced his termination on X, critics on the right discussed examples of what they believed to be his anti-Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-anti-american-agitators-hold-bloodied-biden-mask-dc-protests-humiliate-dems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-American bias<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This you? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RvNKyKpHRy\">pic.twitter.com\/RvNKyKpHRy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DogRightGirl\/status\/1917974814821867683?\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation advises the State Department on the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, which is an official documentary record of America&rsquo;s foreign policy, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/about\/hac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Office of the Historian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The committee&rsquo;s job is to ensure all of the papers, letters, and reports that are included in the FRUS series are chosen carefully, tell the true story, and get published on time. The committee also checks to make certain that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-still-classified-documents-offices-comment-doesnt-look-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">classified documents<\/a> are properly made available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Naftali wasn&rsquo;t the only former member who&rsquo;s faced criticism for alleged anti-Trump and anti-American bias. So has the committee&rsquo;s chairman, James Goldgeier, a professor at American University&rsquo;s School of International Service.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Can you imagine being known as a &ldquo;Trump ally&rdquo;?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Goldgeier (@JimGoldgeier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimGoldgeier\/status\/1359640614829252612?\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Goldgeier was especially critical of Trump during the COVID pandemic and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/city-pays-10-million-black-lives-matter-protesters-2020-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter riots<\/a> of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t enough for Trump to kill Americans through his imcompetence and disinterest in dealing with the pandemic,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JimGoldgeier\/status\/1285247830223986688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> to X on July 20, 2020. &ldquo;Now he&rsquo;s got DHS attacking peaceful Americans to distract from his failure to care about the pandemic. It&rsquo;s startling that he has enablers in this effort.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with the Post, Goldgeier admitted that the committee has been busy still dealing with records from former President Ronald Reagan&rsquo;s administration because of a rule saying that the federal government must make classified historical documents public only after 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Right now, the office is still trying to get volumes out from the Reagan era,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no work that&rsquo;s being done here regarding the current administration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also complained about the committee ostensibly being disbanded, arguing that it&rsquo;s mandated by Congress to exist.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It just seems to me like they just got a list from all the agencies [of similar committees] &hellip; I can&rsquo;t imagine they looked much into what any of the particular ones did,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And I don&rsquo;t know that they understood that this one is congressionally mandated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, a senior State Department official confirmed to the Post that &ldquo;there is a plan in place to maintain the committee,&rdquo; meaning, it would appear, that the Trump administration simply wants to replace its current members instead of getting rid of the committee altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected reason was, again, because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/majority-people-believe-media-bias-worse-ever-cite-slanted-coverage-hunter-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perceived bias<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Cate Dillon, a White House liaison to the State Department, informed them in a letter that their positions were terminated immediately, as reported by The Washington Post. No reasons for their dismissal were given. Following the announcement from former committee member Timothy Naftali on social media, critics highlighted what they perceived as his anti-Trump and anti-American sentiments. Naftali was not alone in facing such criticism; James Goldgeier, the committee&#8217;s chairman and a professor at American University, also received backlash for his critical views of Trump during events like the COVID pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. Goldgeier noted that the committee is still working on records from Ronald Reagan&#8217;s administration due to regulations requiring classified documents to be made public after 30 years. He expressed concern over the disbandment of the committee despite its congressional mandate but was assured by a senior State Department official that there are plans to maintain it with new members due to perceived bias among current ones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2444508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Trump-Fired.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[53617,4384,56762,3634],"class_list":["post-2444507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anti-american-2","tag-committee","tag-historians","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Trump-Fired.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444511,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444507\/revisions\/2444511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}