President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims, including suggesting that former President Barack Obama was a secret Muslim bent on harming America.

President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims, including suggesting that former President Barack Obama was a secret Muslim bent on harming America.

A CNN KFile review of Bruce’s blog posts, social media posts, columns and radio commentaries starting in the early 2000s shows a pattern of demeaning language about Muslims, including suggesting that American Muslims needed to prove their loyalty after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Other comments targeted Muslim-majority countries Bruce would have to work with at the UN.

Many of these statements were published between the early 2000s and late 2010s on her personal blog, which is no longer online. But they were preserved through the Internet Archive and independent watchdog groups that monitor conservative media.

Bruce, currently the chief spokesperson for the State Department, was nominated for the high-level diplomatic post in August. Her nomination was formallysentto the Senate in September, and her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled for Wednesday.

“Tammy Bruce will represent our Country brilliantly at the United Nations,” Trump announced on Truth Social inAugust.

Neither Bruce nor the White House responded to CNN’s requests for comment for this story.

Speaking of then-President Obama, Bruce referred to Obama as a “Kenyan,” “idiot,” and “dumb bastard,” in posts dating back to 2010. She falsely suggested he was Muslim, at one pointsayingthat Obama had “compulsion to confess” he was Muslim when during a 2008 ABC interview Obama accidentally said “my Muslim faith” whilediscussingrumors about him. George Stephanopoulos immediately corrected him, and Obama instantly clarified “my Christian faith.” She also raisedquestionsabout his birth certificate.

“Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot,” sheaddedinoneofmultiplecomments on her personal blog.

A former liberal turned conservative radio host, Bruce argued in multiple writings reviewed by CNN that the US was overly deferential toward American Muslims who needed to prove their loyalty.

“Since the attacks on our country, we have indeed been kissing the proverbial derriere of the American Muslim establishment, and it’s time we stopped,” shewrotein July 2002. “It is now their turn to do the right thing and go out of their way to show us that they are American – first and foremost.”

“(The) Muslim establishment in this country should be tripping over themselves to prove they’re with us and are loyal and sympathetic,” she added.

Her nomination also comes at a time when the US is working with Muslim-majority countries on the crisis in Gaza, something that could potentially be complicated by Bruce’s harsh anti-Muslim language, which included calls for regime change in Saudi Arabia and referring to its ruling family as “beasts.”

In a2002 column, Bruce recounted an appearance by Queen Noor of Jordan on CNN’s “Larry King Live” in the weeks following the September 11 attacks. Bruce wrote that King asked the queen — an American-born Christian who converted to Islam — what Americans could do to show Muslims around the world that “we’re not bad people,” calling it “a reasonable question.”

“The appropriate question to her would have been how can you convince us that Muslims aren’t bad people? After all, it was a reasonable question after September 11, and it oddly remains the question as we continue to give the Muslim establishment a free pass in our efforts to prove we aren’t racist.”

“It’s time we get off our knees and make it clear to the American-Muslim establishment that we have a few requirements of our own, and that it’s time they put up as American-first or shut up, and perhaps even get out if they haven’t bothered to renew their visas,” Bruce added.

“From what I’ve seen, the fat-cat Muslim Elite in this country are indeed loyal – just not to the United States,” she later concluded.

Bruce’s nomination comes amidst Trump’slong-running feud with the United Nations,in which he has questioned the efficacy of its organization and financial commitments. Bruce herself has criticized the UN in even harsher terms than the president. In posts from 2006, she attacked the UN, frequently referring to it as America’s“enemy.”

She also calledit a failure for its “financial corruption…ignoring of genocide, and the Jew-hatred at its core” and called to “tear down the UN.”

Bruce also called the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” proposal a symbol of Muslim conquest.

“There’s only one group of people who were mass murdered on 9/11 and that was Americans, not Muslims,” shewrotein 2010 while opposing plans to build an Islamic community center near Ground Zero — a project critics at the time derisively labeled the “Ground Zero mosque.”

The so-called “Ground Zero mosque” wasneverbuilt as planned. After the backlash, the site was repurposed for a condo project that laterstalledamid financial and legal setbacks.

“I’m convinced this mosque was Obama’s idea,” she added. “The notion of it and its location. I think he knows he’ll be a one-term president and wants as much destruction to the American psyche as possible. The legacy this man is now establishing is a continuation of the terrorism unleashed in the 90s and defined by 9/11.”

Another2002column discussed thecaseof Eunice Stone, a Georgia woman who called police after saying she overheard three Muslim men joking about 9/11 and talking about a terrorist attack. The report sparked a major police response, including shutting down a highway, but authorities later said there was no evidence of terrorism and released the men. Bruce praised Stone as a “true American” and attacked the men.

“Being an American is a frame of mind, which includes commitment and loyalty,” she wrote, suggesting that the men — despite the two being US citizens — lacked both.

Other posts attacked the Empire State Building for lighting up green to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in 2007, calling it an insult to Americans who died during the September 11th attacks.

“Yes, you heard me right,” shewrote. “Now the tallest building in New York, because Islamists knocked down the other two tallest buildings in New York in their act of mass murder, will be commemorating the end of Ramadan by going green from Friday through Sunday. This must stop. This act is an insult to every who dies on September 11, but to the 4,000 plus who have died fighting Islamists since then.”

Bruce continued, “all this pandering sends a message to the enemy and everyone else that we must feel guilty about something, which of course, confirms in the minds of the genocidal enemy that they’re right to kill us.”

In a 2010 radio broadcast, Bruce said Obama’s electionrepresenteda possible “first surrender,” in the eyes of Muslims.

“(W)hat kind of resistance will the American people put forward now that we’ve got a guy named Barack Hussein Obama in the White House, maybe they’re thinking that was the first surrender and because this guy’s gonna be a one term president, this is a major push to one, to just punch the Americans in the face one more time to see what they’ll do,” Bruce said in 2010.

In anotherepisodein 2010, Bruce, referring to Obama as “Urkel,” said she wouldn’t put it past Obama to secretly want America harmed by nuclear material from North Korea.

“Now maybe I’m naïve of thinking that the military’s gonna be able to keep a really bad thing from happening if ‘Urkel’ does not have the courage – or even perhaps secretly wishes this nation to be harmed,” she said. “I wouldn’t put that past him. His mother certainly did. His friends certainly do. Why would he be out of that loop? I’m just looking at the facts as we know them.”

Bruce also frequently criticized Saudi Arabia and its “so-called royal family,” referring to them as “beasts” and “tyrants.” In apost from August 2007she wrote, “Saudi Arabia is the enemy, in so may [sic] ways. For us to continue to support this monstrous regime is unconscionable. The Saudis, which includes the so-called ‘royal’ family and the religious elite (the cancerous Wahabbist terrorist enemy) both need to be vanquished from this earth.”

Bruce also targeted the Bush administration for its friendly ties to Saudi Arabia, once referring to the regime as“Laura Bush’s friends”and criticizing the administration for being “completely supportive” of a nation that reportedlysentenceda rape victim to 200 lashes and six months in prison.