{"id":14669,"date":"2025-10-21T07:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-hopes-white-house-withdraws-ingrassia-nomination-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:20:31","slug":"thune-hopes-white-house-withdraws-ingrassia-nomination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-hopes-white-house-withdraws-ingrassia-nomination-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune hopes White House withdraws Ingrassia nomination"},"content":{"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. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s 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&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/20\/congress\/ingrassia-thune-republicans-00616010\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669","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=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}