Paul Ingrassia at a summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House on June 4. Alex Brandon/AP/File

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, lost the support of the main Jewish group backing his nomination on Tuesday after a new report revealed that he sent racist and antisemitic text messages.

The text messages, obtained by Politico , allegedly included Ingrassia saying he has “a Nazi streak,” and arguing that Martin Luther King Jr. Day “should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs.” Ingrassia also reportedly used racial slurs against Black and Asian Americans.

On Tuesday, Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), which had previously backed his nomination, told CN

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