The American Daily Beast website reported that retired Colonel Douglas McGregor, nominated by President Donald Trump for America's ambassador to Germany, has a history of making racist and hate comments to foreigners, Muslims, immigrants and refugees in Germany and the United States.
The website quoted CNN, which has reviewed dozens of radio and television interviews with McGregor, that it is customary to say that Muslim immigrants move to Europe with the goal of eventually converting them to an Islamic state, and criticized Germany for giving it "millions of unwanted Muslim invaders" Social welfare benefits.
He said that these people did not come to merge and become part of Europe, but rather to benefit from consumption and to establish themselves within the countries of others.
He regretted, in an interview published in 2015, that the European Union had provided a lot of money to "host and prosperity of Muslims" during the height of global migration.
He claimed that "hostile Islamic cells" operating from South America were entering the United States across the border.
It also attacked the German army and the German government in 2018 for "practically no armed forces" and spending money instead on "undesirable Muslim invaders."
He regretted the interference of the US government against Serbian forces, which participated in ethnic cleansing and war crimes, during the Kosovo war in the 1990s in order to "place an Islamic drug mafia responsible for that country."
He called for the killing of immigrants through Mexico
He called for the application of martial law along the US-Mexico border, and also accused Mexico's gangs of pushing millions of Mexicans without education, skills and wrong culture to the United States, and laying them as a guard for the American people, and insisted that US border control agents should "shoot migrants and refugees." "On the border if necessary.
He also described the German cultural concept, which seeks to deal with the past and confront the atrocities committed by the country in World War II, as a "sick mind" and underestimated the country's history.
CNN had contacted McGruger several times for comment, but he did not reply. A State Department spokesman referred the network to the White House for questions about the presidential nominations.
White House spokesman Judge Dagger described McGregor as "highly qualified" to be an ambassador to Germany because of his history of service in West Germany during the Cold War.
Opponents to his candidacy
Bob Menendez, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that oversees MacGruger's candidacy, told CNN that the public statements by Colonel MacGruger over the years about immigration and Muslims and America’s relationship with Germany should deprive him of eligibility for any government position, in addition to representing the United States as Ambassador, adding that even if his ideas reflected the views of the president, it is the duty of the entire Senate to reject this candidate.
McGrawger graduated from West Point and served in the US Army for nearly 30 years as a veteran and received numerous honors, retired in 2004 and authored five books, he is currently Deputy CEO of a Virginia-based defense and foreign policy consulting firm and is a frequent radio and television commentator for affairs National Security.