New York Post by Samuel Chamberlain 8/12/2021
President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has come under additional pressure this week due to alleged racism and failure to disclose some public remarks to the Senate committee weighing his nomination.
On Wednesday, a black former ATF agent claimed that Chipman argued the agent must have cheated on a promotion exam because he had performed so well.
“He said, ‘Hey, a lot of African Americans qualified to be promoted on this certification list; they must have been cheating,'” the unidentified former agent told The Reload. “And then he had to go and find one. I happened to be that one.”
In one previously undisclosed talk Chipman gave to a law firm in 2019, he described ATF and other law enforcement agents as “a very conservative bunch, primarily of white men.”
The nominee also failed to disclose two appearances he made on the Beijing-run China Global Television Network in 2012 and 2013 in which he discussed mass shootings and gun control.
At one point, Chipman claimed that the ATF defined an “assault weapon” as “any semi-automatic rifle capable of accepting a detachable magazine above the caliber of .22, which would include a .223, which is … largely the AR-15 round.” A thunderstruck Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) pointed out in response that definition “would basically cover every single modern sporting rifle in America today.”
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