‘Our candidates are fat Jewish Zionists!’ Trump aide Paul Ingrassia under fire again as leaked group chat reveals slur-filled rant targeting fellow Republican with vile AI-altered photo | Daily Mail Online

Trump administration official Paul Ingrassia, a 30-year-old attorney and longtime Trump loyalist, is facing renewed scrutiny after leaked text messages reveal he used racist and antisemitic language targeting fellow Republicans. In messages from April 2025 exchanged in a group chat titled “Team DOJ/DHS/WH” with other Trump aides, Ingrassia called Florida Congressman Randy Fine, a Jewish pro-Israel Republican, a “fat Jewish Zionist” and circulated an AI-altered photograph designed to make Fine appear grotesquely overweight, according to the Daily Mail’s exclusive report.

Ingrassia’s lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, denied the allegations, claiming the group chat does not exist on his client’s phone and characterizing the accusations as “false and fabricated.” The Daily Mail verified that the original photograph of Fine was taken at an RNC meeting in Marion County, Florida, in January 2025 and had been manipulated using artificial intelligence. Congressman Fine responded by expressing hope the messages were fabricated and stated that President Trump maintains zero tolerance for antisemitism and would fire those responsible if the texts were authentic.

This incident marks the second major controversy involving Ingrassia’s inflammatory remarks in less than a year. Last October, Politico exposed racist messages Ingrassia allegedly sent in January 2024, in which he stated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and admitted to having “a Nazi streak” in him. The outlet also reported he used a racial slur for Black people while attacking holidays including Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month, and Juneteenth. Paltzik disputed the authenticity of those texts as well, claiming they were satirical commentary on liberals rather than genuine expressions of Ingrassia’s views.

Despite the October scandal leading Ingrassia to withdraw his nomination for Office of Special Counsel after Republican senators voiced opposition, he retained his position within the Trump administration. CNN previously reported on Ingrassia’s connections to white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and documented racist and conspiratorial remarks Ingrassia had made. Ingrassia currently serves as Acting General Counsel for the U.S. General Services Administration, where he leads a team of attorneys implementing the president’s executive orders.

Ingrassia’s legal and professional history shows a pattern of defending controversial figures aligned with Trump’s movement. He has represented Andrew Tate, a kickboxer and influencer facing rape charges in Romania and the United Kingdom, and provided legal representation to numerous January 6 rioters who were later pardoned by Trump. Additionally, he faced harassment allegations from a lower-ranking female colleague whom he allegedly pressured to share his hotel room during an Orlando trip, allegations Paltzik denied while initiating a defamation lawsuit.

(Source: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15762363/trump-paul-ingrassia-jewish-slur-florida-randy-fine-AI-photo.html)

SPLC Indicted on Trumped Up Fraud Charges for Reporting on far-right neo-Nazi Groups

The Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday on federal fraud charges, alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalist groups. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated the organization defrauded donors by using their money to fund the extremism it claimed to oppose, with over $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program. The civil rights group faces charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering in federal court in Alabama.

Prosecutors allege the SPLC created fraudulent bank accounts under fictitious names such as “Fox Photography” and “Rare Books Warehouse” to conceal money transfers to informants from donors. The indictment identifies at least nine unnamed informants paid through a secret program dating to the 1980s, including one who received over $1 million between 2014 and 2023 while affiliated with the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Another informant, paid over $270,000 between 2015 and 2023, was a member of an online leadership group that organized the 2017 white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and attended at the SPLC’s direction.

The SPLC stated it will vigorously defend itself against what it described as false allegations, asserting its informant program saved lives by monitoring violent extremist threats and sharing intelligence with law enforcement. Interim CEO Bryan Fair said the organization operated the program in secrecy to protect informant safety during a period marked by bombings, state-sponsored violence, and unsolved murders of civil rights activists. The organization contended it disclosed the program’s existence after the Justice Department’s investigation became public.

The indictment reflects escalating Republican attacks on the SPLC, which has faced intense criticism from conservative groups over its documentation of white nationalist and anti-government organizations. FBI Director Kash Patel severed the agency’s relationship with the center last year, calling it a “partisan smear machine” that defames “mainstream Americans” through its tracking of hate groups. House Republicans held a December hearing accusing the SPLC of coordinating with the Biden administration to target Christian and conservative organizations.

The prosecution follows other Justice Department investigations into Trump’s opponents and critics, intensifying concerns that the law enforcement agency has been weaponized for political purposes under the Republican administration.

(Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/g-s1-118275/southern-poverty-law-center-fraud-charges-paid-informants?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwdGRjcARVFvNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeo6GChtp8Ryn-h8AjBjI9MbbJfNP0Wt1SBw4PTVAFQmk5-oNZoCdnzl7yVgI_aem_PqhD4RCwv1mtQzaagDjCkA)

Miller Pushes States to Strip Education Rights from Undocumented

Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior immigration adviser, is orchestrating a campaign to dismantle the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment by encouraging Republican-led states to deny public education funding to undocumented children. Miller raised this idea in a closed-door meeting with Texas lawmakers in Washington, citing congressional gridlock as justification for state-level action that would challenge the 1982 Supreme Court precedent in Plyler v. Doe, which mandated free public education for undocumented children as a constitutional right.

If enacted, Miller’s proposal would classify approximately one million children as members of a subordinate class excluded from mainstream society. As Justice William Brennan wrote in the Plyler decision, denying these children basic education forecloses their ability to contribute to the nation’s progress and violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee that “The 14th Amendment to the Constitution is not confined to the protection of citizens.” Miller’s strategy aims to use state legislation as a testing ground to weaken federal constitutional protections, encouraging other Republican states and federal lawmakers to follow suit.

Miller’s assault on the 14th Amendment extends beyond education policy and represents a broader assault on the constitutional protections established after the Civil War. The 14th Amendment was designed as a political text to ensure equal protection and citizenship rights for all people, directly extending the prohibitions of the 13th Amendment against slavery and involuntary servitude. Miller’s crusade against immigration and his efforts to strip constitutional protections from vulnerable populations reveal an intent to fundamentally reshape American democracy by dismantling the legal and political framework designed to prevent the creation of subordinate classes.

(Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/opinion/stephen-miller-birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment.html)

Hegseth Removes Black, Female Officers from General Promotion List

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed four Army officers from a one-star general promotion list without clear legal authority to do so. Two of the officers are Black and two are women from a list of approximately three dozen officers, predominantly white men. Hegseth had pressured Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll for months to strike the names, but Driscoll repeatedly refused based on the officers’ exemplary service records until Hegseth unilaterally removed them this month.

One Black officer was targeted for writing a paper nearly 15 years ago analyzing why African American officers historically pursued support roles over combat positions. A female logistics officer faced removal after serving in Afghanistan during the 2021 withdrawal, which Hegseth has condemned as “disastrous and embarrassing.” The reasons for removing the other two officers, a logistics officer and finance specialist, remain unclear. A fifth officer, Colonel Dave Butler, a white male spokesman for former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, resigned in February after repeated demands from Hegseth’s office for his removal.

Hegseth’s chief of staff, Ricky Buria, told Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, according to three officials familiar with the exchange. Buria denied the account, calling it “completely false” and “made up.” Army Secretary Driscoll responded by telling Buria that Trump is “not a racist or sexist” and raised the issue with a White House official who agreed with his assessment, prompting Hegseth’s office to retreat on that particular case.

Hegseth’s personnel overhaul includes dismantling merit-based promotion safeguards, including shuttering the Command Assessment Program that used peer reviews and double-blind interviews to ensure all officers regardless of race or gender could compete fairly. Senior military officials question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender, eroding confidence in a promotion system designed to be apolitical and merit-based. Military lawyers have debated whether Hegseth possesses legal authority to strike individual names from the list, as regulations allow him only to reject or accept the entire list.

Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two dozen generals and admirals since taking office, including General Charles Q. Brown Jr., the second African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy. Currently, the chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, all five service chiefs, and nine of the military’s ten combatant commanders are white men, reversing years of diversification efforts under former Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III.

(Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html)

Trump Lies About Father’s German Birth Despite Bronx Records

President Donald Trump stated during a White House bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on March 3 that he feels warmly toward Germany because his father was born there. Trump told Merz, “My father was born there. There are places that you sort of automatically very, very feel warmly about.” This statement is factually incorrect, as Fred Trump was born in the Bronx, New York City.

Trump’s paternal grandparents, Frederich Trump and Elizabeth Christ Trump, were the family members who immigrated to the United States from Germany. Trump has repeatedly made this same lie about his father’s birthplace. In 2018, he told CBS News his father was born in Germany, and in 2019 he stated during a press briefing, “My father is German, was German, born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a very great feeling for Germany.”

During the same briefing, Trump criticized Spain and the United Kingdom over their foreign policy decisions, threatening to cut off all trade with Spain. He also misidentified his mother’s birthplace, saying she was born in the U.K., when Mary Anne Macleod Trump was actually born in Scotland and immigrated to the United States as a teenager.

Trump’s confusion about his family’s origins contradicts basic biographical fact. The repeated nature of this lie, spanning multiple years and public statements, demonstrates either a fundamental inability to recall or communicate accurate information about his own family history, or a deliberate pattern of disinformation.

(Source: https://people.com/trump-feels-warmly-about-germany-since-my-father-was-born-there-but-his-dad-is-from-the-bronx-11918875?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=photo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=69a7aa49f1887f000151c75d&fbclid=IwdGRleAQVH4RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeNXjbu5kMKwuDgIY07bqtufK_QUKfHdjcAtDBcOpUDLThD_dQ-ldvzxnnmlA_aem_bIGcsH9LHMq0q5kmQOGydw)

Hegseth Pressures Scouting America to Ban Transgender Youth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that Scouting America will implement policy changes targeting transgender youths at the Pentagon's direction, requiring members to use their "biological sex at birth and not gender identity" on applications and prohibiting opposite-gender individuals from sharing bathrooms, tents, and similar spaces. Hegseth stated the Pentagon will "vigorously review" the organization's compliance and withdraw support if it fails to comply, declaring his intent to restore the organization to its original purpose of developing "boys into men."

The policy changes include discontinuing the Citizenship in Society merit badge, introducing a Military Service merit badge, and waiving registration fees for military children's families. Scouting America acknowledged the need to comply with Trump's executive order targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs but avoided explicitly addressing the transgender youth restrictions in its public statement. The organization emphasized maintaining its 2024 rebrand name and service to over 200,000 girls in its programs.

Hegseth's Pentagon campaign against diversity efforts extends beyond Scouting America, including ending military training partnerships at Harvard and removing what he calls "woke distractions" from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. The Pentagon previously stated the organization had "lost its way" and violated administration values through DEI initiatives and "gender-fluid ideological stances," demanding rapid implementation of what it termed "common-sense, core value reforms."

Scouting America's historical evolution toward inclusion, including accepting gay youths in 2013, ending the blanket ban on gay adult leaders in 2015, and accepting transgender students in 2017, directly conflicts with Hegseth's vision. The organization began accepting girls as Cub Scouts in 2018 and into the Boys Scout program in 2019, reaching approximately 1 million members last year with minimal membership growth of about 16,000 new scouts.

The military has maintained a century-long partnership with Scouting America, providing logistical support for the National Boy Scout Jamboree since 1937 and maintaining strong relationships with Eagle Scouts, who frequently enlist. Hegseth's personnel decisions at the Pentagon demonstrate his broader effort to reshape military institutions and remove individuals perceived as opposing his ideological direction.

(Source: https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/scouting-america-alter-policies-maintain-support-us-military-130562779?fbclid=IwdGRleAQOr69leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEePjcVZKq_PzycLSnX56qyK1Zgn8TeDkzmaHWkJfSBIL5cWCIMk7OnTEA8c-M_aem_8JHDpUpUVTXIyaqAj3xXsw)

Jeremy Carl Nomination Collapses Over Antisemitic Great Replacement Rhetoric

Jeremy Carl's nomination as assistant secretary of state for international organizations collapsed after a contentious Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on February 12, 2026, where Republican Sen. John Curtis and all Democrats questioned his record of antisemitic and anti-Israel remarks. Curtis announced his opposition, stating he could not support Carl given his "anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people," which would block the nomination from advancing out of committee.

During the hearing, Carl defended comments claiming the U.S. prioritizes Israel excessively and that "white Americans are undergoing cultural genocide" through immigration and diversity initiatives. When pressed by Sen. Chris Murphy to define white culture, Carl cited differences in churches, food, and music—pointing to a Spanish-language Super Bowl halftime performance as evidence of cultural erasure. Carl explicitly affirmed the Great Replacement Theory, stating the Democratic Party "through its immigration policies has certainly shown signs of that" intentional effort to replace white Americans with immigrants.

Sen. Cory Booker extracted partial concessions from Carl on Holocaust minimization, with Carl acknowledging past comments "downplaying the effects of the Holocaust" were "absolutely wrong." Carl also disputed being a racial nationalist, claiming instead to be a "civic nationalist" concerned with "majority common American culture" becoming "balkanized" through mass immigration. However, Carl refused to renounce his belief that white Americans face discrimination or to specify which aspects of white identity require protection.

In neo-Nazi literature, they argue that multi-ethnic societies are inherently unstable. They point to the "Balkanization" of the U.S. to claim that different races cannot coexist peacefully, eventually leading to a "race war" or a total national collapse.

By claiming the country is already "Balkanized," neo-Nazis argue that the only solution is formal separation, the creation of a "White Ethnostate." They view this as a return to a "natural" order where heredity and geography align.

For example, in Carl’s mention of the Super Bowl halftime show not being in English, "Balkanization" is framed as a loss for the "majority." In this worldview, the presence of other languages or cultures doesn't add to the whole; it subtracts from a specific "white culture" that they believe should be the national standard.

Sen. Jacky Rosen condemned Carl's recorded statement that "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed," rejecting his Jewish heritage—Carl converted to Christianity—as justification for antisemitic rhetoric. She framed a vote for Carl as disrespecting Jewish Americans and Holocaust survivors. Sen. Booker additionally condemned Carl for defending January 6 Capitol rioters, accusing him of lacking "decency" and "honor" and of disgracing the legacy of those who died serving the nation.

Sen. Jeff Merkley challenged Carl's qualifications, noting his complete absence of staff experience at the U.N. or in diplomatic roles and his inability to articulate specific policy positions on United Nations organizations. Carl's evasiveness on whether other U.S. allies receive excessive attention, combined with his failure during the hearing to substantively address antisemitic rhetoric he had previously encountered, led Curtis to question whether Carl could credibly push back against anti-Israel and antisemitic agendas presented by foreign diplomats.

(Source: https://jewishinsider.com/2026/02/jeremy-carl-nomination-hearing-antisemitism-john-curtis/)

Trump Demands Omar Jailed or Deported to Somalia After Attack

President Donald Trump attacked Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in a Saturday morning Truth Social post, demanding she be imprisoned or deported to Somalia days after she was assaulted onstage with a vinegar-filled syringe. Trump falsely claimed Omar orchestrated the attack, stating “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her,” and accused her and other Somali immigrants of fraud and corruption related to Minnesota finances.

Trump’s post attacked Omar as a “scammer” and suggested she and “her absolutely terrible friends from Somalia should all be in jail right now or, far worse, send them back to Somalia.” He also criticized Governor Tim Walz, characterizing him as either corrupt or incompetent for allegedly failing to prevent unspecified Minnesota fraud. Trump’s demand to deport Omar echoes rhetoric he has repeatedly deployed at rallies attacking Omar’s background and citizenship status.

Omar responded by questioning Trump’s decency and mental fitness, telling CNN that Trump “lacks” the compassion and basic humanity she was raised to possess. She suggested invoking the 25th Amendment, stating Trump exhibits “some sort of dementia” given his contradictory public statements about her and his apparent inability to recall his own rhetoric.

Trump has consistently used deportation rhetoric targeting Omar, repeatedly suggesting she return to Somalia where she was born. This pattern of attacks intensified following the on-stage assault, with Trump immediately weaponizing the incident as a platform for xenophobic accusations rather than expressing concern for her safety.

The attack and Trump’s response align with his broader pattern of dehumanizing Somali immigrants and people, including recent statements characterizing Somalis as “good at” only “pirating ships” during a White House briefing marking his return to office.

(Source: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-rages-at-ilhan-omar-in-early-morning-rant-days-after-attack-demands-sending-her-to-jail-or-back-to-africa/)

Judge Condemns DOJ Claim Trump Can Erase Slavery

A federal judge in Philadelphia sharply rebuked Justice Department lawyers Friday for asserting that the Trump administration can unilaterally decide what American history to display at National Park Service sites. Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee, called the government’s position “dangerous” and “horrifying” during a hearing over the abrupt removal of a slavery exhibit at the former President’s House on Independence Mall.

Trump’s executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” prompted workers this month to remove outdoor plaques, panels, and materials documenting the nine people enslaved at George and Martha Washington’s presidential mansion. The city of Philadelphia, which invested $1.5 million in the exhibit developed two decades ago, discovered the materials had been placed in a pickup truck and moved to storage without notice.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory in den Berken argued the Park Service routinely changes exhibits and that “the government gets to choose the message it wants to convey.” Rufe immediately objected, stating the government cannot alter historical facts based on “the whims of someone in charge.” Michael Coard, an attorney for advocacy groups supporting the exhibit, characterized the administration’s legal argument as dictatorial, stating the government was attempting to exercise power that belongs to Congress, the judiciary, and the American people.

The exhibit preserved biographical details about the nine enslaved individuals—Austin, Paris, Hercules, Christopher Sheels, Richmond, Giles, Oney Judge, Moll, and Joe—whose stories had been newly uncovered. Now only their names remain engraved on a cement wall. City officials and legal advocates contended the Park Service does not have unlimited authority to interpret national history, while residents have left flowers and handmade signs at the site affirming “Slavery was real.”

Judge Rufe indicated she would rule quickly, citing expected visitor surges for the nation’s 250th anniversary commemorations. She instructed Justice Department lawyers to ensure no additional materials are disturbed and plans to visit both the storage area and the site before issuing her decision on restoring the exhibit.

(Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/american-national-park-service-philadelphia-justice-department-donald-trump-b2911294.html)

Trump Repeats White Genocide Conspiracy at Davos

President Donald Trump reiterated the white genocide conspiracy theory at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Wednesday, claiming that white people in South Africa are "being systematically targeted and killed." When asked by a reporter if white genocide was occurring in South Africa, Trump stated, "What's happening in South Africa is terrible" and asserted, "We have seen the numbers, we have seen the records, and it is taking place," without providing evidence or specifics.

Trump has previously promoted this false narrative, telling South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House that he possessed a video showing "burial sites" of "over 1,000" white farmers—a claim The New York Times reported was fabricated. Multiple media outlets have debunked Trump's claims through fact-checking, contradicting his repeated assertions that white farmers are being "brutally killed" and their land confiscated as part of a systematic genocide.

In 2025, Trump drastically reduced refugee admissions to 7,500 from the previous 125,000, reserving record-low slots predominantly for white Afrikaner South Africans. Trump claimed this action was necessary because white farmers faced persecution, though he later stated race made "no difference" in the decision. The U.S. State Department labeled Afrikaners a "racial minority" facing "government-sponsored race-based discrimination," validating Trump's framing of the issue.

Trump also boycotted the G20 Summit in South Africa, stating the U.S. would not attend because the country "refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Rights Abuses endured by Afrikaners." This selective focus on white South Africans while disregarding documented violence affecting other populations aligns with white nationalist rhetoric that weaponizes real land reform debates to advance supremacist agendas.

The white genocide conspiracy theory is a political myth rooted in ethnic hatred and pseudoscience, designed to justify white nationalist commitments and calls to violence. Trump's amplification of this baseless theory at an international forum legitimizes extremist propaganda and contradicts factual reality: white people are not facing extermination or systematic elimination in South Africa or elsewhere.

(Source: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/it-is-taking-place-trump-talks-white-genocide-at-davos/)

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