Trump nominee to lead whistleblower office drops out after racist texts surface

<p>Report on Paul Ingrassia featured messages where he allegedly described himself as having a ‘Nazi streak’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/oct/21/donald-trump-republicans-white-house-ballroom-government-shutdown-troops-us-politics-live-news-updates">US politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Paul Ingrassia, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>’s nominee to oversee federal whistleblower protections, has dropped out after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/trump-nomination-paul-ingrassia-racist-texts">racist text messages</a> he sent surfaced this week.</p><p>Ingrassia, currently a White House liaison at the Department of Homeland Security, was the subject of a report on Monday <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608">published in Politico</a>. The report featured text messages where he allegedly described himself as having “a Nazi streak” and suggested Martin Luther King Jr Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/trump-nominee-paul-ingrassia-racist-texts">Continue reading...</a>