{"id":14664,"date":"2025-10-20T22:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rick-scott-will-oppose-embattled-trump-nom-ingrassia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:31:51","slug":"rick-scott-will-oppose-embattled-trump-nom-ingrassia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rick-scott-will-oppose-embattled-trump-nom-ingrassia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott will oppose embattled Trump nom Ingrassia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says he will oppose Paul Ingrassia\u2019s nomination to lead the White House Office of the Special Counsel following revelations of the nominee\u2019s history of racist and antisemitic remarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not supporting him,\u201d said Scott in an interview Monday evening. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine how anybody can be antisemitic in this country. It\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assuming all Democrats oppose Ingrassia, he can only afford to lose three Republican votes on the Senate floor before Vice President JD Vance is called in to break a tie for confirmation.<\/p>\n

Scott is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is set to hold a hearing Thursday on Ingrassia and other pending Trump nominees. <\/p>\n

He was among the GOP lawmakers who expressed concerns about Ingrassia back in July<\/a>, when the panel was last set to hear his testimony. At that time, Ingrassia was known for his ties to Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist, and Andrew Tate, a Holocaust denier.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis big thing for our state is, he\u2019s had some statements about antisemitism,\u201d Scott said then.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Blue Light News has reported further on Ingrassia\u2019s actions and viewpoints. As the current White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, he allegedly sexually harassed<\/a>a female colleague. A text chat<\/a> shows Ingrassia boasting about his \u201cNazi streak\u201d and claiming the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be \u201ctossed into the seventh circle of hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

The office of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of Senate Homeland, referred comments to the White House regarding the latest reporting on Ingrassia and whether the committee hearing would move forward Thursday as planned. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Other Republican members of the panel were less definitive in how they would proceed. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said he wasn\u2019t familiar with the new reporting but he planned to ask Ingrassia about his previous social media posts.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has lots of posts that he’s done in the past, and there\u2019s plenty of questions there,\u201d Lankford told reporters Monday.<\/p>\n

Diana Nerozzi contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says he will oppose Paul Ingrassia\u2019s nomination to lead the White House Office of the Special Counsel following revelations of the nominee\u2019s history of racist and antisemitic remarks. \u201cI\u2019m not supporting him,\u201d said Scott in an interview Monday evening. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine how anybody can be antisemitic in this country. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}