A President Donald Trump nominee to lead an agency responsible for protecting whistleblowers reportedly spewed racist hatred and said he has a “Nazi streak” in group chat messages leaked on Monday.

Paul Ingrassia, who Trump has picked to lead the Office of Special Counsel, allegedly repeatedly spewed racism against Black people and other groups while also expressing white supremacist sentiments in a group chat with other Republican operatives and influencers.

In two of the alleged messages, Ingrassia railed against Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as well as other holidays celebrated for or by Black communities in the U.S. At one point in December 2023, Ingrassia used an Italian slur for Black people, and said that Kwanzaa should be made illegal by Trump.

He reportedly said, “From kwanza t

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