"After a flight to Charleston, South Carolina, landed earlier this year, he wrote to the group that "if your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there." During the NBA playoffs, another member asked if he was watching the New York Knicks game. "I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball," Giunta wrote back. On another occasion, he called Black people "the watermelon people" and wrote "I love Hitler.""
"Racial slurs are used liberally. William Hendrix, the vice-chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, used the N-word more than a dozen times. "Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food," he wrote in July. "Would he like some watermelon and kool aid with that?" Politico reports that throughout the chat, "epithets like 'f- - - - -t,' 'retarded' and 'n- - - -' appeared more than 251 times combined.""
A Telegram chat named 'RESTOREYR WAR ROOM' included prominent young GOP operatives engaged in a leadership power struggle within the Young Republican National Federation. Participants repeatedly exchanged racist messages, slurs, and praise for Hitler. Peter Giunta, former president of the New York State Young Republican Club, wrote multiple racist remarks including comparisons of a pilot’s skin tone, calling Black people 'the watermelon people,' and writing 'I love Hitler.' William Hendrix, vice-chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, used the N-word more than a dozen times and referenced watermelon and Kool-Aid. Other members, staffers, and a Vermont state senator and his wife also posted demeaning, ableist, and racist comments.
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