David Dietrich the Republican official in Virginia who referred to top Black military officials as “stinking” n-words and called for the lynching of the first Black Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin in a Facebook post, has resigned, according to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s office.
Dietrich, the Hampton Electoral Board Chairman was asked to resign after his racist February 21 Facebook post resurfaced last week. But he refused to do so and the local party asked the court to step in.
Dietrich had been accused of using a slur against Black people and called for a “public lynching.”
Dietrich attacked Austin and retired Gen. Russel Honoré who was tapped by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead a review of Capitol security after the Jan. 6 attack.
Dietrich wrote that Sec. Austin’s efforts to root out white nationalists in the military was actually a ploy “to remove conservative, freedom-loving Americans from the roles.”
“These so-called ‘leaders’ are so vile and racist, there’s no way to describe them other than in terms their own people understand. They are nothing more than dirty, stinking n***ers.”
“If it is a civil war they want, they will get it in spades,” he wrote. “Perhaps the best way to pull us back from the brink is a good public lynching.”
