Paul Ingrassia’s racist text messages cost him a Senate-confirmed job, but not his White House one.
The 30-year-old Trump loyalist withdrew his nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel this week after Politico revealed a string of vile group-chat messages in which he used racial slurs, bragged about having a “Nazi streak,” and said Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell.”
But despite the uproar, Ingrassia still holds a federal post as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.
Ingrassia, whose own mother reportedly battled hard to help him get the hearing, announced on X and Truth Social that he was pulling out of Thursday’s Senate grilling “because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time.”
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