WASHINGTON, D.C, April 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – An employment law attorney who was appointed as the first female General Counsel to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump has been fired at “the direction of President Biden” after writing a report on religious discrimination in the workplace.
Sharon Fast Gustafson was asked by Deputy Assistant to the President Gautam Raghavan, who claimed to be acting at “the direction of President Biden,” to voluntarily resign her position at the White House by the end of the same week, just three days later.
Gustafson “respectfully” declined the invitation to resign in a three-page response to the president on March 5, wherein she acknowledged that she had served only about half of her appointed four-year term due to end in August 2023.
“At the time I was nominated, I was asked if I would commit to do my best to fulfil my four-year term, and I answered yes,” she wrote in the letter. “Unless prevented from doing so, I intend to honor that commitment.”
Within a few hours of sending her letter to the president, Raghavan responded in a curtly worded email, informing Gustafson that her “employment
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