"Politico viewed the text exchanges from early 2024, including him saying Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be tossed into the seventh circle of hell. Politico reported: 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."
"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 shithole, and will always be that way. (In his first term, Trump used the term shithole countries to describe some African nations and Haiti.)"
"When Ingrassia apparently said that defending our founding isn't white nationalist,' that participant pushed back, saying Ingrassia reflexively went to saying whites built the country. They did, Ingrassia said, according to the chat. That comment prompted the same participant to respond, You're gunna be in private practice one day this shit will be around forever brother. Ingrassia posted an image of paintings showing several Founding Fathers, including Washington, John Adams and Alexander H"
Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, exchanged racist and white nationalist-tinged messages in a Republican group chat in early 2024. The messages included advocating that Martin Luther King Jr. holiday be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell" and a slur about Vivek Ramaswamy: "Never trust a chinaman or Indian." The chat also featured statements that Black people are unchangeable and a claim that "all of Africa is a shithole." Ingrassia defended invoking white founders and made a Nazi remark while other participants pushed back.
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