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Paul Ingrassia, a 30-year-old lawyer whom President donald trump Has been nominated for a five-year term to lead the DOJ’s Office of Special Counsel, It appears he’s dead in the water ahead of Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing,
senate majority leader john thune told reporters on Monday that he hoped white House Will withdraw the endangered nominee in view of politico The report revealed that Ingrassia allegedly described himself as “A Nazi Streak” using racial slurs in a private group chat.
“That’s not going to pass,” Thune said.
Ingrassia, a Cornell Law School graduate who currently serves as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, was chosen by Trump to lead the Department of Homeland Security. The Office of the Special Counsel shortly after its inauguration in January. The independent agency is charged with protecting government whistleblowers and enforcing ethics laws.
The agency, which has no connection to the individual special counsels used by the Justice Department to investigate high-profile or politically charged cases, is tasked with investigating and prosecuting violations of the Hatch Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Civil Service Reform Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act.
Ingrassia, who only recently passed the bar and lacks experience with those arcane laws, reportedly made the inflammatory comments in a group chat with other GOP activists and influencers.
One message revealed in the report shows him allegedly calling late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “the George Floyd of the 1960s” and saying the federal holiday commemorating King “should be abolished and thrown into the seventh circle of hell where he belongs.”
Another message in the same text chain shows him using racial slurs toward black people and complaining about several federal holidays and other observances.
No holidays…since Kwanzaa [sic] From MLK Jr. Day to Black History Month to Juneteenth,” he reportedly said.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee and Governmental Affairs Committee are scheduled to hear testimony from Ingrassia on Thursday, months after he was initially scheduled to appear before the panel.
Senators postponed his nomination hearing in July due to concerns over alleged anti-Semitic comments made by the young moderator, as well as concerns about his relative youth and inexperience for the position, which typically goes to career experts in ethics law.
At the time, Florida Senator Rick Scott said that Ingrassia had “made some statements about antisemitism” that were “a big deal” to his Sunshine State constituents.
Scott said traffic light On Monday he said he had “no plans to vote” for Ingrassia. politico Report.
Another GOP member of the panel, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnsontold reporters that he hoped the White House would reverse the decision.
But as of Monday, HSGAC Chairman Rand Paul said Ingrassia is “still on the list” for Thursday’s hearing “unless someone tells us otherwise.”
Paul said, “He has to decide whether he can move forward. I’ve asked him to count the votes… The White House needs to make a decision. I’m leaving it up to them.”
Ingrassia’s nomination was not expected to receive support from any Democratic senators, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Trump to withdraw the nomination and fire him from his current position in remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday.
Schumer said Ingrassia’s texts were “appalling” and “point to a really disturbed person.”
He said, “These texts are inaccurate and inappropriate, and it is difficult to believe that there is any process in the White House that would allow such a person to be nominated.”
“This individual is not worthy of confirmation by this body…The President should immediately withdraw Mr. Ingrassia’s nomination, he should be fired from his current job within the Administration, and he should never again hold a leadership position within the Republican Party or the Government.”
The decision to withdraw Ingrassia would mark a rare retreat by the White House from facing GOP opposition to a controversial nominee and moving forward.
The Republican-controlled upper chamber has routinely confirmed the president’s picks regardless of qualifications, including last month changing Senate rules to vote along party lines to confirm nominees in groups instead of individual up-and-down votes.
Several White House officials contacted Independent As to whether Trump intended to withdraw, Ingrassia did not immediately respond.