Fuentes on Paul Ingrassia: “He seemed to me to be pretty far right. ... It says something about the face and the landscape of the Trump administration that a guy like that is tolerated.”
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According to reporting by Politico:
“Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be ‘tossed into the seventh circle of hell’ and said he has ‘a Nazi streak,’ according to a text chat viewed by POLITICO.”
On October 21, the day after Politico's reporting, Ingrassia announced he would be withdrawing himself from consideration for the position.
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From the October 21, 2025, edition of America First, streamed on Rumble
NICK FUENTES (HOST): There are rare occasions when I really get a strong gut feeling, a gut-level feeling about where things are headed. And I felt that way about the Trump campaign and I felt that way about a few different things. But I'm feeling that about this. Today, there is a big story about how Paul Ingrassia, who is a nominee for the [Office of] Special Counsel in the government, had his group chat leaked.
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Paul Ingrassia, I believe, was a liaison. He was legal counsel in a few different federal departments under Trump. Before that, he was on social media. He had a Substack, he had a big social media profile, and he seemed to me to be pretty far right. He seemed to me to be a big Trump supporter, very America first, pretty outspoken, ethnically Italian. I like that about him.
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And in the second Trump administration, this guy landed a job. And he made the rounds. I think he was at DOJ, and then DHS, and then they nominated him for a cabinet -- not a cabinet-level position, but for a Senate confirmation position. And any position that needs to get confirmed in the U.S. Senate is an important position. So he's in the Trump government. He's in some important departments. He has an important job, and then they nominate him and he has to be confirmed in the Senate for a post in the Office of the Special Counsel.
This is a really big deal. Because as we've talked about for many years, personnel is policy. It's not enough that we elect Trump. We need to elect Trump and then we need Trump to bring in and bring up with him younger staffers for two reasons. So they can support him. He needs to hire the right people that are going to be loyal to him and America first so they can actually execute his agenda. So you need the right people running the federal departments and agencies so that when Trump signs an executive order, when Congress passes a bill, they can carry it out. They can actually make sure it gets properly executed. That's one.
But two, and maybe more importantly for the long term, they're both important but I regard the second as maybe equally important or more important, is that you start to change the landscape of government so that younger people can make their career and climb the ladder. And so, it's a very big deal that in the second administration of Trump, you have a lot of very right-wing guys in the Young Republicans, in the College Republicans, and then going into government, then getting into the federal departments and agencies, getting into the federal bureaucracy.
Because if we can get very far-right people in the bureaucracy and they build up their resume and they get a career and so on, eventually they will be the deep state. Eventually, maybe not it's inevitable, but they can be the deep state. They're qualified. They're there. At least they're there for four years. It's a good deal. And it says something about the face and the landscape of the Trump administration that a guy like that is tolerated. Because as you know, in previous administrations, even in the first Trump administration, it was not that way.