Former White House Aide Boris Epshteyn Blasts the New Yorker for Focus on Russian Heritage

Former White House aide Boris Epshteyn hit back at the New Yorker magazine for focusing on his Russian heritage, describing him as “Russian-born.”

“My family left Russia as Jewish refugees to escape persecution,” Boris Epshteyn wrote on Twitter. “It is disgusting that the New Yorker and writer [Sheelah Kolhatkar] have picked up that mantle of persecution.”

My family left Russia as Jewish refugees to escape persecution. It is disgusting that the @NewYorker and writer @sheelahk have picked up that mantle of persecution. Why was it necessary to mention where I was born while discussing my work? No one else’s nationality was mentioned. pic.twitter.com/0pqb1maP1X

— Boris Epshteyn (@BorisEP) October 15, 2018

The article was a feature on the Sinclair media enterprise, noting that they hired the “Russian-born” Epshteyn as “chief political analyst” after he left the Trump administration.

“Why was it necessary to mention where I was born while discussing my work?” he asked. “No one else’s nationality was mentioned.”

Epshteyn’s entry on Wikipedia also describes him as “Russian-born.”

Epshteyn worked on the Trump campaign and was communications director for the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) before serving in the administration for a short time.