The man you see in these photos is Paul Ingrassia. He is currently working in the Trump White House as liaison for DHS. Ingrassia is also Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. The knives have been out for Ingrassia, but surprisingly, the knives are being held by Trumpers who consider Ingrassia too crazy, too much of a Nazi and too much of a sexual predator even for them. A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Ingrassia made arrangements, within a government-related trip, to force a female colleague to share a hotel room with him. He went behind her back and canceled her single hotel room as a way to coerce her into staying with him. He’s already being investigated for that. But then this week, Politico got their hands on recent texts sent by Ingrassia and wouldn’t you know, he’s incredibly racist.
Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and said he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a text chat viewed by POLITICO. Ingrassia, who has a Senate confirmation hearing scheduled Thursday, made the remarks in a chain with a half-dozen Republican operatives and influencers, according to the chat.
“MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs,” Ingrassia wrote in January 2024, according to the chat. “Jesus Christ,” one participant responded.
Using an Italian slur for Black people, Ingrassia wrote a month earlier in the group chat seen by POLITICO: “No moulignon holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth,” then added: “Every single one needs to be eviscerated.”
POLITICO interviewed two people in the chat and granted them anonymity after they expressed concerns about personal and professional repercussions. One retained the messages and showed the text chain in its entirety to POLITICO, which independently verified that the number listed on the chain belongs to Ingrassia. The person said he came forward because he wants “the government to be staffed with experienced people who are taken seriously.” The second person has since deleted the chain and didn’t recall specifics about it, but did confirm the discussions took place.
In May 2024, the group was bantering about a Trump campaign staffer who’d been hired in Georgia and was working on outreach to minority voters, when Ingrassia suggested she didn’t show enough deference to the Founding Fathers being white, according to the chat.
“Paul belongs in the Hitler Youth with Ubergruppenfuhrer Steve Bannon,” the first participant in the chat wrote, referring to the paramilitary rank in Nazi Germany and the Republican strategist. POLITICO is not naming the participants to protect the identity of those interviewed for this article.
“I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it,” Ingrassia responded, according to the chain. One of the people in the text group said in an interview that Ingrassia’s comment was not taken as a joke, and three participants pushed back against Ingrassia during the text exchange that day.
Ingrassia made other racist remarks, according to the chain. In January 2024, he wrote of former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: “Never trust a chinaman or Indian” and then added: “NEVER,” the texts show. Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, declined to comment.
A month later, discussing why some Republicans feel that Democrats make Black people into victims, the texts show Ingrassia remarked: “Blacks behave that way because that’s their natural state … You can’t change them.” He then added, according to the chat: “Proof: all of Africa is a sh–hole, and will always be that way.” (In his first term, Trump used the term “s–hole countries” to describe some African nations and Haiti.)
Ingrassia is in the same age group as the “Young Republicans” caught in Telegram messages using extremely offensive language in last week’s reporting. Ingrassia is 30 years old, same as most of those “Young Republican” operatives. Not to put this all on generational differences, but I have a casual interest in what’s happening with the youths and young adults politically. Ingrassia clearly thought he was speaking among like-minded racists and bigots. He felt comfortable writing these things and he believed that they would never come out.
Photos courtesy of Ingrassia’s IG.
Absolutely every word is disgusting. And the fact MAGA finds him gross is mind blowing, Politico is now where they’re putting their useless trash it seems (if this guy’s podcast that I assume he has was a hit they’d have him trying on I am Charlie Kirk shirts). I wonder who rescued the staffer he was trying to force into his room, because I feel for her.
And he’s 30? JFC talk about having the face you deserve.
She actually stayed the night albeit in a separate bed. She must have been very young and/or new to public service. I see no other reason for not going down to that front desk & requesting another room for myself. And if full, calling another place. I don’t care how late in the evening/early in the morning, it’s so hard for me to understand her inaction on this. I get he was her boss, but still. The guy is vile & she was very gullible.
Please don’t victim shame. We don’t know what the situation was or why she didn’t go ask for a new room. She deserves our support and respect, not our questions about her behavior.
Ugh! I HATE this timeline! Where are the heroes? It can’t just be Gavin Newsom, Corey Booker, and Marjorie Taylor Greene! 😉🥸
Um, wow 😳
let me guess…silly young kid was just joking around, right? 🤬
His lawyer claims it was AI manipulation.
This scumbag fits right in with this administration.
It’s the Manoshere effect….
Read Laura Bate’s “Men who hate women” – It gives the context on so much acceptable open hatred that is now online mainstream
This is a person who JUST passed the bar, i.e., no experience as a lawyer. He currently works for the firm that represented Andrew Tate. He has praised Alex Jones.
He believes that descendants of slaves should pay reparations to slave owners. Let that sink in. This is the open racism happening now.
I’ve only been to 4 African countries, but those 4 I saw were far more advanced than all of America in terms of infrastructure, technology, and health care. People who call African countries “shitholes” have clearly never been.
I don’t get why they have their underoos in a bunch about this guy – he is a nazi just like them. He fits right in with them. Racist, a predator, and vile. What’s the problem? The report of how he canceled his colleague’s hotel room is absolutely vile. Reminds me of drunken Pete’s “meet cute” cheating on his wife with that intern. Creepy as fuck.
Love how he thinks carrying water for White Supremacy is gonna spare him when they run out of Black and Brown people to kill. Dude your last name alone and those features you’re a target.
Also, everyone should report this asshat to his State Bar. It’s why his lawyer is stepping in claiming the texts were AI manipulated. Those texts could get him disbarred.
I disagree that he thought it would never come out. I think he thought if it did come out, it wouldn’t hurt him. And he might be right.
what I find fascinating — bear with me — is the french spelling of an Italian slur. Ok, moving on. Sometimes things hit you in reverse order of moral reckoning. He looks… like the Jersey Shore washed over him at his baptism, along with a lot of cigarette butts and hair gel and aftershave, and in the background, his mum was popping her bubblegum. I mean. Yikes. This guy makes Tony Soprano look relatively dignified and possessed of a certain gravitas. This is what Marx would call false consciousness: identifying with people who would — in all honesty — look down on you as a parvenu. That’s why the most effective gatekeepers are always the people who would otherwise be gate crashing.
Kaiser, I am also wondering what happened with my generation to make them like…this. Yes, we’ve had it hard and we don’t seem to be able to get through a few years without another crisis, but these white people and the minorities who love them seem to have largely succeeded without much trauma. I don’t understand…but of course, I’m a Black woman and did not grow up in their households or grow up with them as close friends…
I also think racism is the biggest grift there is, and a lot of people have bought into it, line and sinker, in the hopes of profiting some way off of the hate. It’s been incredibly lucrative for some ($10 billion for the Trump family just since this election) and it’s a sweet comfort to those who are never going to make it.
Also, if we’re going to hell, can’t we at least have some attractive people to lead us there? All of these rat and pig face LDE dudes and MAGA Madame Tussaud’s are nightmarish.
I’m sure Shady Vance will step up any minute to defend this guy, just like he did that racist DOGE guy and those “young” republicans in Kansas. This bunch of mfkers aren’t good enough to be tossed in a landfill.
I know it sounds weak but I cling to the idea that Vance was selected to serve as the pooper-scooper behind this dude and his reeking entourage. I think money changed hands. He’s being backed by Peter Thiel, who has money to spend and unlike Elon Musk does not need attention 24/7. Also, the defence (or war) dept is increasingly leaning on Thiel’s tech. Musk was a workhorse for a bit in Ukraine, they used his satellite dish, but Musk is not a dyed-in-the-wool techie so much as the moneybags who piggybacks on the nerds. They’ve used him for all he’s worth and tossed him in the bin crumpled. I can’t believe — fwiw — Musk didn’t realise that they would jolly him along with his 90-day “bring your donor to work” assignment and then revert to form, splurging trillions in overspending. I mean Musk clearly never watched Alan Alda play a Republican in the West Wing, admonishing, “look, if you can’t drink their wine, take their money, and then vote against them, you shouldn’t be in this game.” Thiel brings more than money. His tech will change the game. If Vance is their guy, I’m placing bets on the long term mental stamina of the guy who called Trump “America’s Hitler.” The rest is…. Noise. Listen for the signal.
I’m more interested in finding out what happened to the female that got her hotel reservation canceled by him. Did she stay in his room or did she end up leaving in the end? I hope she’s fine. He believes what he believes. No one is going to change that.
In the article it says that she stayed in the same room but they slept in separate beds.
So in other words, Tr*mp LOVES this guy!