Senate Majority Leader John Thune signaled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel should not go forward with a confirmation hearing later this week.
Paul Ingrassia used a racial slur in a private text group where he also said the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” POLITICO reported Monday. That followed an earlier report about an accusation of sexual harassment against the 30-year-old White House official.
Asked if it would be a mistake for Ingrassia to appear before the Homeland Security and Governmental…
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