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“Celebrate racist trash”
Nazi scandal puts Trump candidate in trouble

October 21, 2025, 10:21 p.m

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Several chats by young Republicans are causing a stir in the USA. First, Vice President Vance puts the violent news into perspective. Now new revelations are causing sharp criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.

The leading Democrat in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, has called on President Donald Trump to withdraw the nomination of a candidate for a top position in the US federal government because of racist and anti-Semitic comments. “For the second week in a row, we’re getting a disturbing report of young Republican staffers celebrating Nazi ideology and racist trash when they think no one is listening,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.

He was responding to revelations by the Politico portal about Paul Ingrassia, who is supposed to head the Office of Special Counsel. The independent federal agency protects whistleblowers in public service. “Politico” had reported that the 30-year-old said in a chat, among other things, that the Martin Luther King holiday belonged in “hell” and described himself as someone with “Nazi tendencies.”

Schumer called the comments “dangerous” and demanded that Ingrassia “never again hold a leadership position within the Republican Party or the government.” Schumer’s Republican counterpart in the Senate, John Thune, hopes that the White House will withdraw Ingrassia’s nomination, according to US media. This would have to be confirmed in the Senate.

Racism and anti-Semitism in chats

The “Politico” report is part of a series of research in which the portal also evaluated thousands of leaked messages from Telegram chats of the “Young Republicans” – the Republican youth organization. Another report said U.S. Capitol Police were called to a Republican lawmaker’s office because of an American flag with a swastika symbol. The deputy says he has nothing to do with it.

According to Politico, there were numerous racist, anti-Semitic and violence-glorifying comments in the “Young Republicans” chats. One person is said to have written: “I love Hitler”, while another indicated that he wanted to murder political opponents in gas chambers. Vice President JD Vance did not defend the messages, but called them juvenile “stupidities.” According to Politico, most members of the chats are between their mid-20s and mid-30s.

Both Democrats and Republicans expressed outrage. At the same time, Vance and other Republicans referred to leaked text messages from a Democrat from the state of Virginia who, according to US media, had called for the assassination of a Republican opponent in 2022.