Last September, the Washington Post reported that, in keeping with the grand tradition of the Trump administration wherein political hires must be diametrically opposed to the missions of the agencies they work for, the man tasked with stopping discrimination by financial lenders at the CFPB was…seemingly pro-racism. In blog posts from 2004, Eric Blankenstein, whose job was literally to enforce laws against financial discrimination, questioned under a pen name if the use of the N-word was, in fact, inherently racist, saying that there was no way for authorities to know what motivated someone to use such a slur. “Fine…let’s say they called him n—,” Blankenstein wrote, naturally spelling out the entire word. “…would that make them racists, or just a—?” For good measure, he also asserted that “hate-crime hoaxes are about three times as prevalent as actual hate crimes” and insisted that a proposal by the University of Virginia to impose penalties for acts of intolerance was “racial idiocy.”

As you can probably imagine, people were pretty upset about the posts, which Blankenstein admitted to but did not apologize for, saying only that they had no relevance whatsoever to his work ensuring that consumer-protection laws like the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and civil-rights legislation meant to protect African Americans and other minority groups from discriminatory practices, were enforced. (“The insight to be gained about how I perform my job today—by reading snippets of 14-year-old blog posts that have nothing to do with consumer-protection law—is exactly zero,” he said in a statement. “Any attempt to do so is a naked exercise in bad faith, and represents another nail in the coffin of civil discourse and the ability to reasonably disagree over questions of law and policy. The need to dig up statements I wrote as a 25-year-old shows that in the eyes of my critics I am not guilty of a legal infraction or neglect of my duties, but rather just governing while conservative.”)

Despite the outcry and calls for him to be canned, Blankenstein, unsurprisingly kept his job, resigning on his own terms nearly a year later. And now? He’s reportedly landed at another Trump agency that is, in theory, supposed to prevent discrimination:

Blankenstein has been hired by HUD’s Office of General Counsel as a senior counsel working on matters relating to Ginnie Mae, the government-run corporation that promotes homeownership, according to people familiar with the matter. He will make $166,500 a year.

Blankenstein will report to HUD’s principal deputy general counsel starting Monday, the people familiar with his hiring said. HUD did not respond to a request for comment.

First-day jitters aside, Blankenstein should fit right in at HUD, where Secretary Ben Carson has weakened an Obama-era rule put in place to combat housing discrimination, scaled back investigations into such matters, and scrapped a tool that gave communities data to help assess neighborhood segregation. Last month, HUD issued a proposal to roll back protections for homeless transgender people. It’s unclear what Blankenstein’s views are on the LGBTQ community, but in one of this 2004 blog posts he described abortion as “the state-sponsored destruction of life,” writing, “…in essence you are saying that if a woman makes a mistake and f— someone she shouldn’t have, she can get rid of the problem with an abortion without the consent of the father, but the man who makes the very same mistake has no such right?”

In a statement, Senator Sherrod Brown told Politico: “The Department of Housing should be working to address housing discrimination across the country, not serving as a dumping ground for a disgraced, racist Trump appointee.” Others took a similarly dim view of the hire. “It was bad enough the Trump CFPB kept Mr. Blankenstein employed for months after his racist writings came to light, ironically to oversee their anti-discrimination efforts,” said Derek Martin, director of the consumer watchdog group Allied Progress. “But what’s the Trump HUD’s excuse for hiring him after knowing full well what kind of character they were dealing with? What a message this sends: Racism won’t just be tolerated in this administration, it’ll lead to more opportunities.”

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