Trump Nominee for Top Pentagon Post Out Because He Criticized Multiculturalism in Federalist Opinion Piece

President Donald Trump’s pick to help lead the Pentagon’s personnel office abruptly withdrew his name from consideration this week after a controversial, anti-immigrant opinion piece he wrote in 2017 began circulating on Capitol Hill. . .

J. David Patterson, currently the senior vice president of strategic business opportunities at the management consulting firm SMA Inc., was announced last month as the nominee for the deputy under secretary for personnel and readiness post. The job is the second-ranking leader in the office, but the under secretary post has been vacant since July 2018.

Currently, Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan is filling that top role in an acting basis. He is the fifth acting administrator to man the job in the last five years. White House officials have not said whether he is under consideration to be nominated for the post full-time. . .

But according to the Politico report, prospects for Patterson’s nomination soured when a 2017 op-ed he co-wrote for The Federalist began circulating among lawmakers’ offices.

In the piece, Patterson links “multiculturalism” and a lack of immigrants assimilating into American culture for an increase in mass shootings, teen pregnancy and “moral decay” throughout America. (Read more from “Trump Nominee for Top Pentagon Post out Because He Railed Against Multiculturalism in Federalist Opinion Piece” HERE)

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