WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration fired a top aide to Housing and Urban Development secretary nominee Ben Carson Thursday, after discovering that he once wrote columns critical of Donald Trump. The New York Times reported that Shermichael Singleton, 26, was escorted out of HUD headquarters by security officials. Singleton was one of the few black Republicans in the Trump administration. But he also wrote pieces that criticized Trump. In March 2016, for example, he wrote a column for The Hill that lamented Trump’s rhetoric toward people of color:

Source: Huffington Post February 16, 2017 20:03 UTC