Trump nominee says he has a 'Nazi streak,' bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

[In It to Win It]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608

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.

Ingrassia, who has a Senate confirmation hearing scheduled Thursday, made the remarks in a chain with a half-dozen Republican operatives and influencers, according to the chat.

“MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs,” Ingrassia wrote in January 2024, according to the chat.

“Jesus Christ,” one participant responded.

Using an Italian slur for Black people, Ingrassia wrote a month earlier in the group chat seen by POLITICO: “No moulignon holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth,” then added: “Every single one needs to be eviscerated.”

[Dave Bowman]

1. Sounds like a nice balanced guy. 🤢

[Ocelot II]

2. He seems nice.

[Prairie Gates]

3. The term is Sicilian-American - no Italian would even know what a "moulignon" is supposed to be

In Sicilian-American, it means "eggplant," which for some reason was applied to black people by Italian-American racists. They often even shortened it to "moolie" because they lack class and don't actually speak Italian. In Sicily some people will use the dialectical mulinciana or even mulignana, so you can see how mulignan' became a thing, but I'd bet even some people in Palermo would look at you funny if you used it to refer to an eggplant.

In Italian, eggplant is melanzana.

This Ingrassia is a typical doo da doo. There's a non-zero chance that he sprinkles his language with these fourth gen bastardized Sicilian dialectical words but can't speak an actual sentence of Italian.

[spanone]

4. Perfect racist for trmps nominee.

[Blues Heron]

5. They are getting comfy with espousing nazism in public

[UpInArms]

6. Just wow

When someone is so comfortable using that bigoted thought process that they share it openly …

I am pretty certain they are beyond redemption