{"id":14665,"date":"2025-10-20T23:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-hopes-white-house-withdraws-ingrassia-nomination\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:46:51","slug":"thune-hopes-white-house-withdraws-ingrassia-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-hopes-white-house-withdraws-ingrassia-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune hopes White House withdraws Ingrassia nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday he hopes the White House withdraws Paul Ingrassia&#8217;s Office of Special Counsel nomination, after Blue Light News reported on texts that showed him making racist remarks to fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not gonna pass,&#8221; the South Dakota Republican told reporters. Ingrassia is scheduled to testify on his nomination Thursday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>At least three other Republicans are signaling they will oppose Ingrassia&#8217;s confirmation: Sens. Rick Scott of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and James Lankford of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not supporting him,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine how anybody can be antisemitic in this country. It\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have tons of questions for him,\u201d Lankford said, adding he \u201ccan\u2019t imagine supporting that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ingrassia can lose only three Republicans before Vice President JD Vance is called in to break a tie for confirmation, assuming all Democrats vote in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Light News reported Monday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/20\/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608\" target=\"_blank\">a text chat that showed<\/a>Ingrassia saying the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be \u201ctossed into the seventh circle of hell\u201d and that he has \u201ca Nazi streak.&#8221; A lawyer for Ingrassia did not confirm the texts were authentic and said they &#8220;could be manipulated or are being provided with material context omitted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Blue Light News separately reported that Ingrassia, the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/09\/ingrassia-trump-harassment-dhs-00596545\" target=\"_blank\">investigated for harassment involving<\/a> a lower-ranking colleague. The colleague filed a complaint against him before retracting it. Ingrassia&#8217;s attorney denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chair of the Senate Homeland panel, referred questions to the White House about what would come next for the nominee. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><i>Diana Nerozzi contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday he hopes the White House withdraws Paul Ingrassia&#8217;s Office of Special Counsel nomination, after Blue Light News reported on texts that showed him making racist remarks to fellow Republicans. \u201cHe\u2019s not gonna pass,&#8221; the South Dakota Republican told reporters. Ingrassia is scheduled to testify on his nomination Thursday [&hellip;]<\/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-14665","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\/14665","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=14665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}