The cleric never worked at the State Dept. They ‘promoted’ him as in promoting an ‘article on his website’. Meaning, they gave him favorable publicity/encouraged traffic to his site/’promoted’ his teachings.
It was a poor & confusing choice of words. But much as they obviously love the guy/hatemonger, at least they didn’t employ him.
Ah!
Oh, thank you for explaining. With these Dems, any sort of overreach seems possible. At least we’re not there quite yet.