Ranking Member Raskin Demands President Trump Withdraw White Supremacist Paul Ingrassia’s Nomination and Fire Him From Federal Government

Washington, D.C. (October 21, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to President Donald Trump demanding he pull the nomination of Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of the Special Counsel, following new revelations of his deeply-held racist and white supremacist views that have forced even Senate Republicans to pull their support and call for his withdrawal.

“Your nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and current White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Paul Ingrassia, is not just unqualified. He has also been credibly accused of sexual harassment and is an unabashed white supremacist and vicious racist. He is clearly unfit to be anywhere in our government, much less leading the Office of Special Counsel, the agency responsible for protecting federal whistleblowers and investigating discrimination. […] Now we know from Mr. Ingrassia’s leaked private conversations how thoroughly your nominee’s toxic white supremacist ideology saturates his every thought,” wrote Ranking Member Raskin.

On Monday, leaked private messages obtained by Politico showed Ingrassia railing in a group chat that MLK Day “should be tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs” and that black holidays should be “eviscerated” from “kwanza to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth.” In this chat, he also wrote that one should “never trust a chinaman or Indian” and admitted that “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time.” 

Ingrassia’s record of virulent racism and white supremacist sympathies is long and well documented. Yet President Trump hired and promoted him—whether out of indifference to his hateful ideology or because it fully aligns with his Administration’s beliefs and priorities.

In previous statements, which President Trump’s vetting team no doubt uncovered and informed Trump of before his nomination, Ingrassia wrote that education should focus on “elevating the high IQ section of your demographics, so you know, basically young men, straight White men.”

Ingrassia evidently still subscribed to these racist beliefs. He affirmed his racist worldview in recent texts, writing: “We need competent white men in positions of leadership. … The founding fathers were wrong that all men are created equal … We need to reject that part of our heritage.”

“You never should have nominated Paul Ingrassia in the first place. You should have heeded our advice months ago and withdrawn Mr. Ingrassia’s nomination rather than making it painfully clear to America that white supremacy and its adherents hold a special place in the heart of your Administration,” concluded Ranking Member Raskin. 

Ranking Member Raskin and Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia previously wrote to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in June demanding they reject Ingrassia’s nomination. 

Click here to read the letter.