Legal expert calls for Smithsonian leadership overhaul over ‘self-loathing’ portrayal of history: ‘It’s bile’

Legal expert Cully Stimson criticized the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, calling its historical portrayal of the United States a negative, "self-loathing" oppressor-versus-oppressed narrative. The comments followed congressional hearings initiated after a White House report accused the museum of advancing DEI and left-wing agendas. Stimson stated that these hearings exposed what he described as "bile that they’re trying to pass off as history."