Fox News Digital reached out to the White House on Friday, seeking a response to Cherry's past posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Cherry, who serves as the Department of the Interior's principal deputy communications director and senior spokesperson, has previously used the platform to criticize law enforcement and promote "Russiagate."
In 2015, during the riots that erupted following the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man who died in police custody in Baltimore, Cherry posted, "Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases." Months later, he made another post stating, "Apt (sic.) time to recall that the modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs."
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Cherry has also equated police to "slave patrols" and likened voter identification laws to the poll taxes of the late 1800s and early 1900s, which were designed to disenfranchise Black voters. In response to former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's 2016 assertion that "there is no substantial white power movement in this country," Cherry retorted, "WRONG."
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In 2017, Cherry claimed that the Republican Party's conservative faction was preoccupied with "white grievance politics." He wrote on X, "The Tea Party was never about the debt/deficit but about racism and white grievance politics." The following year, he advocated for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Homeland Security Department agency responsible for combating cross-border crime and illegal immigration.
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Cherry also made several posts about the alleged Russia "scandal" during the Trump administration. After a multi-year investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and his associates conspired with Russia during the 2016 election, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller released a comprehensive report in 2019 that largely exonerated the former president.
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Cherry questioned in May 2017, "At this point, how is everyone in the White House (Pence included) *not* complicit in the Russia scandal?" He later commented on the "intensity of Russiagate," but cautioned against overlooking Trump's alleged indifference to the persecution of gay and bisexual men in Chechnya, Russia, as reported by Human Rights Watch.
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While the White House declined to comment directly on Cherry's social media posts, it did respond to what it perceived as personal attacks on Cherry. A White House spokesperson told The Advocate, an LGBT-focused news outlet, on Friday, "No one should be targeted simply for being themselves. It is cruel and unacceptable." The spokesperson added, "This is an administration that believes to our core in the principle that out of many we are one — and we are proud that the people who serve in it reflect those values as well."
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The spokesperson further praised Cherry, saying, "Tyler is an invaluable member of our team who continues to deliver for the Department of Interior and the American people."
Cherry, who joined the Interior Department in early 2021, previously worked for President Biden's presidential campaign, the left-wing consulting firm SKDK, and Media Matters for America, a progressive publication. Cherry did not respond to a request for comment.
