Trump nominee for watchdog role is out after report of racist texts

WASHINGTON (NYT) — The nomination of Paul Ingrassia, a far-right lawyer and firebrand podcaster who had been tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the Office of Special Counsel, collapsed Tuesday amid Republican opposition in the Senate, a day after Politico reported that he had sent a series of racist text messages.

Ingrassia said in a social media post late Tuesday that he would not appear at his nomination hearing set for later in the week. He cited senators who soured on his choice to run the independent corruption-fighting agency after the report of an apparent series of texts that, among other assertions, used a racist slur to describe holidays that honor Black Americans and declared that ethnically Chinese and

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