GOP nominee admits ‘Nazi streak'

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00:00Paul Ingrassia, President Trump's pick to run the Office of Special Counsel, is backing out

00:04after a series of leaked texts allegedly included him bragging about having a, quote,

00:10Nazi streak. Now, he was scheduled for a Senate confirmation hearing this Thursday. He had hoped

00:15to be the head of the agency that basically aims to keep federal workers safe from things like

00:20whistleblowing reprisals, prohibited practices, stuff like that. But growing pressure from Senate

00:26Majority Leader John Thune, Florida's Rick Scott, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson, and surely many others

00:31ended his bid. The inflammatory texts allegedly include Ingrassia saying that the Martin Luther

00:36King Jr. holiday, quote, should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs.

00:42And in another, quote, I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it. Ingrassia's

00:49lawyer suggested that the text could have been manipulated and claimed that if they weren't,

00:54they were clearly self-deprecating and satirical. But that doesn't appear to be clear to everyone.

01:00These texts come less than a week after Politico reported a group of young Republican leaders

01:05treated equally racist and anti-Semitic texts that resulted in most of them losing their jobs.