{"id":14673,"date":"2025-10-21T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-demand-trump-pull-watchdog-office-nominee-after-reported-racist-texts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:21:16","slug":"dems-demand-trump-pull-watchdog-office-nominee-after-reported-racist-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-demand-trump-pull-watchdog-office-nominee-after-reported-racist-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems demand Trump pull watchdog office nominee after reported &#8216;racist&#8217; texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats in Congress called on President Trump to withdraw his nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) after a new report exposed text messages in which the nominee purportedly denounced the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and admitted to having a &ldquo;Nazi streak in me from time to time.&rdquo; Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5564522-paul-ingrassia-osc-democrats-demand-nomination-withdrawal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats in Congress called on President Trump to withdraw his nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) after a new report exposed text messages in which the nominee purportedly denounced the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and admitted to having a &ldquo;Nazi streak in me from time to time.&rdquo; Rep&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673","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=14673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}