Trump’s Pick Admits He Has a ‘Nazi Streak’
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
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Read More in Politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608
Read “Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.” in Lawfare: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here
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| 0:25.8 | the Republicans. This time, it is not just a young Republican group. It's a key appointee for Donald |
| 0:32.8 | Trump to a high-ranking position within his administration. Paul and Grosia, who's been nominated to head |
| 0:38.2 | up the office of the special counsel. A powerful office, obviously special counsels have |
| 0:42.3 | looked at investigations inside the government and Starr famously represents in the office of |
| 0:49.8 | special counsel and the Clinton investigation. So a key position, important position, powerful position |
| 0:55.3 | in the administration, and Donald Trump has tapped this guy, Paul Angrasia, who I've only known |
| 1:00.1 | as a Twitter troll in the past. It was ridiculous, preposterous nomination from the start, |
| 1:05.1 | like in the vein of a Hague Seth or a Cash Patel nomination. But this guy's even more of a clown than them. |
| 1:11.5 | I don't say that lightly. |
| 1:12.7 | Like I followed this person on Twitter for a while. |
| 1:15.4 | Their whole oove is just offensive, racist, and stupid. |
| 1:19.0 | So to put this guy in charge of the Office of Special Counsel is a mockery of the Office of Special Counsel. |
| 1:24.9 | And it's a signal that you want to weaponize that office |
| 1:28.4 | to go after your opponents. And so what Donald Trump has done is put in in Grosia. And in these |
| 1:35.2 | leaked texts, he says, among other things, that he has a Nazi streak and that the MLK Jr. |
| 1:42.7 | holiday should be tossed into the seventh circle of hell. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 1:47.7 | He says that it's him. |
| 1:48.9 | He self-identifies as having a Nazi streak. |
| 1:52.0 | And before, you know, any of the magas out there start saying, like, oh, you guys can't |
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