‘Astounding’: CNN Reporter Marvels at Trump Staffer With ‘Nazi Streak’ Getting ANOTHER Job

CNN senior reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere called it “astounding” that the Trump staffer who admitted to having a “Nazi streak” got another job in the administration.

Last month, Politico released a bombshell report featuring multiple leaked texts from Paul Ingrassia, then President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. In those texts, Ingrassia told colleagues that he had a “Nazi streak” and made a number of other racist remarks. While criticizing former presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy in 2024, for example, Ingrassia said, “Never trust a chinaman or Indian.”

A day later, Ingrassia announced he was withdrawing from an upcoming Senate hearing. The 30-year-old remained in his role as special liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.

On Friday’s episode of Inside Politics, host Dana Bash revealed that Ingrassia’s duties were expanding as he was recently named deputy general counsel at the General Services Administration.

Dovere detailed how Ingrassia’s continued presence in the White House spoke volumes for the Trump administration, adding:

I mean, look, I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. If thinking Nazis are bad makes me a biased reporter, I guess I’m a biased reporter. It doesn’t seem that complicated, right? This guy said that he has a little bit of a “Nazi streak” in him. A lot of other comments were in those text messages that Politico had the reporting on. It is just sort of astounding that this is job no. 3 that he has been offered in the Trump administration. It speaks to a feeling, apparently, that people have in the Trump administration that this is not disqualifying; and I think, unfortunately, that goes beyond Ingrassia. We see it in what’s happening at the Heritage Foundation, what’s happening with the Tucker Carlson and talking to Nick Fuentes.

And it’s not just on the right or among Republicans. Nazi stuff is bad when it’s a tattoo that Graham Platner had on his chest and was joking about before he was running for Senate. Nazis are bad, and it is striking in so many ways that it has just become like a thing that people talk about, and maybe they say, “Nazis are OK,” or, “Hitler kind of had a point on some things.” That’s nuts.

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