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From 2004-2015 Givens largely avoided politics to focus on career development and education. He published a letter to the editor of ''National Review'' in 2006 calling for Saddam Hussein to be tried in Iraq, rather than in an international tribunal, for crimes against the Iraqi people. While a graduate student, he penned an April 2008 column in ''The Richmond Times-Dispatch'' in which he advocated for U.S. nuclear sanctions against Iran to be linked to Tehran’s international support of terrorist organizations. | From 2004-2015 Givens largely avoided politics to focus on career development and education. He published a letter to the editor of ''National Review'' in 2006 calling for Saddam Hussein to be tried in Iraq, rather than in an international tribunal, for crimes against the Iraqi people. While a graduate student, he penned an April 2008 column in ''The Richmond Times-Dispatch'' in which he advocated for U.S. nuclear sanctions against Iran to be linked to Tehran’s international support of terrorist organizations. | ||
In 2015, troubled by the ascendance of then-Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and his impact upon the Republican Party, | ==Criticism and Praise of Donald Trump== | ||
In 2015, troubled by the ascendance of then-Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and his impact upon the Republican Party, Givens reached out to Charlie Millar, then-TCC for Oneida County, to gather more information about the Libertarian Party. He criticized Republican governors in a December 2015 column in the ''Utica Observer-Dispatch'' for attempting to unilaterally block the entry of refugees. During a November 30, 2016 interview on WUTQ, Givens lamented what he saw as troubling early indications about the incoming Trump administration’s approach to immigration. He also disclosed on the air that he was a registered Republican. In early 2017, he posed a hypothetical question on WUTQ insinuating that Trump might be working as an agent of the Russian government. | |||
In | In March 2017, he praised the Trump administration during a radio interview for launching air strikes against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad following its use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians. | ||
Givens | In 2018 Givens agreed to succeed Charlie Millar as TCC, but stepped down after less than one month. In a 2018 online column, he offered qualified support for Trump’s elimination of the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator position. | ||
Givens backs Marc Molinaro’s 2018 campaign for Governor of New York State. | |||
==Organizational Positions== | ==Organizational Positions== | ||