Young republican activists in New York with ties to top party leaders have been implicated in a texting scandal . Politico obtained text threads that had racist, antisemitic, and homophobic language.

The texts were sent over Telegram, an online messaging app. Politico obtained 2,900 pages of texts from January until mid-August.

They include jokes about gas chambers, affection for Hitler and the Nazis, and hundreds of slurs, including the N-word.

One exchange was led by Peter Giunta, who, up until the Politico story was published, was the Chief of Staff for New York State Assemblyman Mike Reilly of Staten Island. Giunta was also the former president of the New York State Young Republicans Club.

In June, he was running to chair the Young Republican National Federation. In one text thre

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