'Absolutely disgusting': Erin Burnett aghast at Trump official's social media activity

CNN anchor Erin Burnett was left aghast by new investigative reporting that unearthed a trove of sexually degrading attacks and bigoted remarks.

Burnett brought KFILE reporter Andrew Kaczynski on her show, "OutFront," on Friday evening to discuss his new reporting on E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the president ousted the agency's longtime chief because he didn’t like the jobs numbers.

"This person has a digital trail that suggested Kamala Harris got to where she got, advanced her career, through sexual favors. He engaged in conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and COVID as well. Tip of the iceberg, apparently," Burnett told viewers.

Burnett noted that KFILE uncovered a 2019 tweet from Antoni in which he attacked then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) with a tweet, "You can't run a race on your knees."

Kaczynski said his team found "highly disturbing posts."

"Sexually graphic, degrading, misogynistic comments about Kamala Harris. We found anti-gay slurs. We also found that he spread a lot of conspiracy theories about COVID, about the 2020 election," said Kaczynski.

He warned Antoni is now in a position that is "vital" to the U.S. economy, and requires someone trustworthy — not "highly partisan."

Antoni, he said, shared the Harris tweet five separate times. He also mocked Christine Blasey Ford, who accused then-Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

"You can see right there he called her 'Miss Piggy,' commenting on her appearance," Kaczynski said, sharing Antoni's tweet.

In February 2020, Antoni shared advice for women to meet a "great guy," including being in shape, growing out their hair, learning to cook and not being "annoying."

In August 2018, Antoni posted that he "like[s] a senator who doesn't die," a reference to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Trump's attack that he likes "people who weren't captured."

"But there was a lot of this type of content that we found, both under his real name and under a pseudonym that he used," said Kaczynski, later adding, "It was a lot of stuff."

Burnett called the trove of tweets "hateful" and "stunning stuff."

"Very hateful things," Burnett said, remarking that Antoni was replying to vulgar posts. "The image that he was responding to of Kamala Harris was absolutely disgusting. We can’t even show it. I would think that would be — it’d be a bad thing. It was beyond pornographic. It was disgusting."

The White House defended Antoni in a statement.

“President Trump has nominated Dr. E.J. Antoni to fix the issues of the BLS and restore trust in the jobs reports. Dr. Antoni has experience and credentials needed to restore solutions-oriented leadership at the BLS — solutions that will prioritize increasing survey response rates and modernizing data collection methods to improve the BLS’s accuracy.”

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