Maddow Blog-Trump taps right-wing lawyer, former podcast host to lead the Office of Special Counsel

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Trump taps right-wing lawyer, former podcast host to lead the Office of Special Counsel

Trump taps right-wing lawyer, former podcast host to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
Given Paul Ingrassia’s background and political radicalism, his OSC nomination appears indefensible.
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— hateGOP (@hategop.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T23:37:09.286Z

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In an item posted to his social media platform late Thursday, the president announced plans to nominate Paul Ingrassia to lead the office, describing Ingrassia, the current White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, as “a highly respected attorney, writer, and Constitutional Scholar.”

That can charitably be described as an incomplete description of what makes Ingrassia notable. The Washington Post reported:

Ingrassia ... has publicly advocated for white supremacist and antisemite Nick Fuentes, publishing a Substack titled ‘Free Nick Fuentes’ and writing on X that ‘dissident voices’ such as Fuentes should have a place in conservative politics. He was also part of a legal team representing self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, who has been charged with human trafficking and forming an organized-crime group in Romania, as well as rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking in the United Kingdom. Earlier this year, Ingrassia likened Tate to ‘the embodiment of the ancient ideal of excellence.’

What’s more, as The New York Times reported, Ingrassia also hosted a podcast, called “Right on Point,” and in December 2020, as Trump tried to overturn the results of his election defeat, the podcast posted on Twitter that it was time for outgoing Republican president “to declare martial law and secure his re-election.”

In case that weren’t quite enough, a CNN report from earlier this year noted that Ingrassia’s podcast account also posted a quote from President John F. Kennedy the night of the Jan. 6 attack that read, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, (will) make violent revolution inevitable.”......

After Trump announced his selection — which will require Senate confirmation — Ingrassia said online that he intends to “make every effort to restore competence and integrity to the Executive Branch ... and Revitalize the Rule of Law.”

Given his radical background, that seems extraordinarily unlikely

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1. Trump Nominates Andrew Tate Pal With 16 Months 'Lawyer' Experience To Head Office Of Special Counsel

You got to be kidding. It takes more that 16 months to learn what to do as a lawyer.

Trump Nominates Andrew Tate Pal With 16 Months 'Lawyer' Experience To Head Office Of Special Counsel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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— Aleianjack (@aleianjack.bsky.social) 2025-05-31T19:34:21.082Z

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He’s an awkward and mid white man, with the vibe of somebody who saves his toenail clippings in a jar, and is wildly unqualified for his job. He’s got a right-wing podcast, and ties to John Eastman and Kyle Rittenhouse, of course. He openly supports white nationalism, salivated online for Trump to declare martial law after he lost in 2020, and argued that Holocaust deniers Nick Fuentes and Ye should have their X accounts restored.

But, he is much more, extra even by, like, Ed Martin standards. In his extremely brief career, this wad of hair gel was also on legal teams for January 6ers, Andrew Tate, and NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere. And he especially loves Tate. Until a few days ago, a picture of Ingrassia and Tate was pinned to the top of his Insta.....

Like so many of the administration’s nominees before him, Ingrassia is a product of the right-wing poop chute, though his splash has been extra fast. He went to Fordham University, joined the young Republicans, and got his start writing for The Daily Caller and the Gateway Pundit, then during COVID started a podcast with his sister Olivia, called Right on Point, where they ranted about the “Chinese Coronavirus” and interviewed fellow right-wing propaganda-blasters like Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens.

Ingrassia graduated from Cornell Law in 2022, not a typo, just three years ago! But his writings and rantings caught the eyes and ears of senior fellows at the Claremont Institute, and immediately after law school he got one fellowship, and then another. Claremont Institute, of course, is not to be confused with, or associated with, the Claremont Colleges in any way, or the opulent spa in Berkeley. It is a “think tank” that appropriated the colleges’ name and earns its keep from its billionaire donors by brainstorming histrionic doomsday fairy tales and far-fetched law interpretations that’re too out-there for even the Federalist Society, to justify a dictatorship. Short version, the US is a collapsed heck-hole, and the only hope to save “Western civilization” is a “red Caesar,” an authoritarian with a post-Constitutional rule.

And Trump would like that too!

Claremont Institute’s most senior fellow is, of course, January 6 spokesmodel John Eastman, who is also the founder and director of Claremont’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and Quasi-Legal Monkeyshines. You know, that leather-fedora-wearing nut job who “think-tanked” those not actually at all legal legal theories that led up to January 6, what with the fake electors, stopping the electoral count and haranguing Mike Pence night and day for weeks to do “one more relatively minor violation” of the law so could Trump do a coup. And then he got disbarred! And disbanked! And doing debegging for money!