Republican senators are lining up to oppose one of President Donald Trump’s nominees who reportedly said in a leaked group chat that Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell,” and that he has “a Nazi streak.”
Paul Ingrassia, an attorney nominated by Trump to lead the Office of Special Counsel, allegedly made these and other racist comments in leaked group chat messages obtained by Politico. Ingrassia is scheduled to appear Thursday in a confirmation hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, but his confirmation, which requires simple majority approval from the Senate, seems to be doomed.
Republican Sen. James Lankford told reporters Monday night that Ingrassia should withdraw.