White House Forced To Drop Nominee Who Slurred Indians, Others

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India-West News Desk

WASHINGTON, DC – The White House on October 22 was forced to withdraw Paul Ingrassia’s nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel after several Republican senators announced they would not support him, citing his history of racist and inflammatory remarks.

Ingrassia, a Republican attorney and current White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed his withdrawal. His record of inflammatory statements predates his nomination and yet, he was considered.

The decision came after Politico published leaked private messages showing Ingrassia making racist comments about Black and Asian communities and appearing to mock Indian Americans — reportedly in reference to then-presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. In one message, he wrote, “Never trust a Chinaman or Indian,” and admitted, “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time.”

The comments sparked outrage across Washington, prompting even Republican senators like John Thune, Rick Scott, James Lankford, and Ron Johnson to declare they would oppose his confirmation.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, had earlier urged President Trump to withdraw the nomination, calling Ingrassia “an unabashed white supremacist and vicious racist” unfit for any government post.

In earlier writings, he claimed that education should focus on “young, straight white men” and argued that the nation should reject the idea that “all men are created equal.”

The Office of Special Counsel, which Ingrassia had been nominated to lead, is an independent federal agency tasked with protecting whistleblowers and investigating workplace discrimination. His nomination, already controversial, collapsed under the weight of his own words—leaving the administration scrambling to defend another politically self-inflicted wound.