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The White House notified the the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday morning that they will withdraw Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata's nomination to become the Department of Defense's undersecretary of defense for policy, a Senate source tells CNN.
Tata was scheduled to testify in front of the committee Thursday at 9:30 a.m. ET, but the hearing was canceled. He was expected to face a tough nomination hearing after CNN's KFile reported that he made numerous Islamophobic and offensive comments and promoted conspiracy theories.
The committee was advised late Wednesday night that the withdrawal was likely. The White House declined to comment.
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, who is the chairman of the committee, said in a statement, "There are many Democrats and Republicans who didn't know enough about Anthony Tata to consider him for a very significant position at this time."
He continued, "We didn't get the required documentation in time; some documents, which we normally get before a hearing, didn't arrive until yesterday. As I told the President last night, we're simply out of time with the August recess coming, so it wouldn't serve any useful purpose to have a hearing at this point, and he agreed."
If he had been confirmed, Tata would have assumed the third-highest position at the Pentagon, overseeing policy from Afghanistan, China, Iran and Russia to nuclear deterrence and missile defense.
After the White House officially nominated Tata in June,
CNN's KFile reported the retired general has a history of making Islamophobic, offensive and extremist comments on social media and in radio interviews.
In tweets, Tata falsely called former President Barack Obama a "Muslim" and "terrorist leader" and said that Islam is the "most oppressive violent religion I know of." He called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and California Rep. Maxine Waters "violent extremists" and said Waters was a "vicious race-baiting racist."
CNN's KFile also reported Tata falsely claimed Obama was "a Manchurian candidate" purposely attempting to bring down the United States and accused Obama officials of committing "treason." He also repeatedly pushed conspiracy theories that a "deep state cabal" of officials were working to overthrow Trump and that former CIA Director John Brennan ordered an assassination against Trump via a coded tweet.
Tata later
apologized for his tweets in a letter he sent to Senate Armed Services Chairman Jim Inhofe and Ranking Member Jack Reed, and retracted his comments on Islam.