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Laura Esposito @ The Daily Beast: ‘Sugar Baby’ DHS Official Accused Trump Aide With ‘Nazi Streak’ of Sexual Harassment

She was pushed out. He got a promotion.

Before a top Trump-appointed counterterrorism official was ousted for allegedly appearing on a sugar daddy website, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her superior—and all he got was a promotion.

Julia Varvaro, the former Department of Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, was placed on administrative leave on April 22 after the Daily Mail reported that she had a profile on Seeking.com—a site often used by young singles seeking older, wealthier partners to fund their lifestyles.

The agency’s swift action against the 29-year-old stands in stark contrast to its response months earlier when she accused her then-superior, Paul Ingrassia, of sexual harassment.

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By Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai

The reporters interviewed dozens of people in Romania, the United States and Britain and reviewed court documents, emails and text messages. They welcome tips at nytimes.com/tips.

Published Dec. 10, 2025

Updated Dec. 11, 2025

Days before Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House, Andrew Tate got some good news.

Mr. Tate and his brother, Tristan, swaggering influencers in the so-called manosphere, had been under criminal investigation in Romania since 2022, accused of coercing women into pornography. Andrew was also accused of rape and of having sex with and beating a 15-year-old. The brothers, American and British citizens, had been barred from leaving Romania while prosecutors built their case.

Now, in a Jan. 14 text message, Mr. Tate indicated that help was on the way.

“I had word from The Trump admin that theyre on top of things,” Mr. Tate wrote to someone close to him, in a message reviewed by The New York Times. “Ive been told ill be free soon but Trump needs to see me in Miami,” he added.

The next month, an extraordinary order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government, a Times investigation found. The prosecutors were told to find a compromise with the Tates. Despite their misgivings, they lifted the travel restrictions, a move that Romania’s prime minister thought would appease the Trump administration.

“We’re massively back,” a grinning Mr. Tate announced in a video recorded for his followers on Feb. 27, as a private plane whisked the brothers to Florida.

Their arrival in the United States opened a rare rift among conservatives and raised suspicions over whether the White House had intervened. The Times found that support from Trump administration officials played a crucial role.

Interviews with dozens of people in Romania, the United States and Britain, as well as a review of hundreds of pages of court documents and private messages, offer the fullest account yet of how the Tates rose from a fringe corner of the internet to become a cause célèbre on the right. The brothers’ release from Romania was the culmination of a yearslong effort by Andrew to forge alliances with Mr. Trump’s advisers and family members.

The Tates have helped propel a brazenly chauvinistic movement around the world, even as they racked up allegations of human trafficking and physical violence in multiple countries. They deny criminal wrongdoing. But Andrew, 39, and Tristan, 37, have boasted about recruiting women to make lucrative sexual content, and have sold courses teaching young men how to follow in their footsteps.

Interview with Andrew Tate conducted by Anthony Dream Johnson and posted to YouTube in 2019.

As his notoriety grew, Andrew Tate shrewdly courted Tucker Carlson and other media stars of the right, who in turn tapped into the brothers’ loyal following to expand their own reach.

Andrew also nurtured relationships with Donald Trump Jr. and his younger brother Barron, who recognized the role that young male voters could play in their father’s return to power.

Barron, now 19, admired Andrew, and spoke with him over Zoom last year, according to Justin Waller, a mutual friend who was on the call. During the call, they discussed their shared belief that the Romanian criminal case was an effort to silence the Tates, he said.

After Mr. Trump’s re-election, some of the Tates’ supporters ascended into the new administration. One of them, the diplomatic envoy Richard Grenell, twice discussed their case with Romanian officials, The Times found.

Within days of the second conversation, the Romanian prosecutors received their marching orders and handed the Tates the freedom to travel — after long arguing that the brothers were a public danger and a flight risk. The prosecutors were outraged, according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.

The brothers’ liberation rattled many American diplomats, who feared a shadowy new era of foreign relations. And it prompted hostility from many traditional conservatives, from Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, to the commentator Megyn Kelly, who said, “This actually is toxic masculinity.” Some likened the Tates to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Their return also led to a new assault allegation, from a girlfriend who said Andrew beat and strangled her shortly after his arrival in the United States. Prosecutors declined to bring charges, but she has filed a lawsuit against him and has been granted a restraining order. He is suing her for defamation.

In a statement to The Times, the Romanian prosecutors’ office said that the country’s constitution requires them to operate independently and that their actions in the Tates’ case have been legal. Marcel Ciolacu, who was the prime minister when the Tates were released, did not respond to requests for comment.

An official with the White House said it has no knowledge of and is not involved in anything related to the Tates’ legal matters. The official did not respond to questions about Barron. Donald Trump Jr. did not respond to a request for comment.

The Tates’ lawyer said The Times’s findings about Andrew and Barron were “fake news.”

After more than two years of confinement, the brothers have used their newfound freedom to resume their jet-setting lifestyle and juice their brand. They have visited Kanye West, partied poolside with beautiful women and promoted their business to chanting fans.

“I’m in Dubai, I’m still rich, all I do is win,” Andrew said in a video posted in April that shows him driving off in a Bugatti.

But their legal problems haven’t gone away. The Romanian case is moving forward, and once it’s finished, the brothers will face charges of human trafficking and rape in Britain.

And in the United States, The Times found, anti-trafficking agents at the Department of Homeland Security have been investigating the Tates for years.

ImageAndrew Tate, in a half-unbuttoned animal-print shirt, sits in a crowded audience beside Tristan Tate, in a fuchsia blazer.

Andrew and Tristan Tate at a fight in Las Vegas in March, part of their U.S. visit after their release from Romania.Credit...Mikael Ona/ZUMA Press Wire

Riding Outrage to Money and Fame

Andrew Tate found modest fame as a professional kickboxer in the 2010s, but as he tells it, he didn’t start making real money until he and his brother went into pornography.

By 2015, the Tates had installed women in apartments and a hotel room in Britain, to perform live on webcams for paying customers. Andrew later described how the brothers romanced attractive women, coaxed them into the business and took most of the profits.

“It’s not just about picking up girls,” Mr. Tate said in an interview posted to YouTube. “It’s about converting them into really loving you enough to moving in with you and working for you and giving you all the money.”

Both brothers had run-ins with the British police. Tristan was arrested in 2014 after a woman reported he had assaulted her.

The next year, Andrew was arrested three times, the police said. One woman who had worked for him said in court documents that he strangled her during sex; another said he had raped, beaten and pulled a gun on her; a third woman said he had raped and strangled her while they were dating.

Authorities did not charge either brother. But Andrew said the scrutiny prompted him to leave Britain.

One day, he recalled on a podcast years later, he woke up and said, “I will not live under a government that will do this to me when I’ve done nothing wrong.” He and Tristan moved to Romania, a country they had gotten to know through the professional fighting circuit. There, Andrew said on another show, “you can get away with shit you can’t get away with in the West.”

With Romania as their new home base, the brothers ran their webcam business from there and in Britain.

When Andrew was cast for the British reality show “Big Brother” in 2016, few knew about his business or the assault allegations.

He was soon fired, however, after a tabloid obtained a video of him whipping a girlfriend with a belt. They both said it was consensual.

The scandal boosted his fame, especially on social media, where he became a fierce supporter of Mr. Trump. Donald Trump Jr. liked one of his supportive Twitter posts and they soon agreed to meet, Mr. Tate recalled on a podcast. He went to Trump Tower in 2017.

“We still inbox each other every couple of days,” Mr. Tate said on the podcast, in 2018.

By 2022, he and Tristan had gained millions of followers by preaching mental and physical discipline, entrepreneurship and the subjugation of women. They had expanded the porn business to TikTok, OnlyFans and other platforms, and were selling their courses to young men. One offering was called PHD, for “pimping hoes degree.” Over the previous eight years, they had earned at least 21 million pounds (nearly $28 million), according to records from a British court that found they had evaded taxes.

Interview with Andrew Tate conducted by James English and posted to YouTube in 2021. Mr. Tate discusses his beliefs about the inferiority of women.

When Andrew was kicked off several social media platforms and decried by high school teachers, it only increased his notoriety. He became one of the most searched people on Google.

In December 2022, the brothers were arrested in Romania and, with court approval, jailed for three months. Prosecutors later charged them with forming an organized criminal group and trafficking seven women, and charged Andrew with rape.

The 360-page sealed indictment, obtained by The Times, said the Tates had tricked the women into believing they were in long-term relationships, then coerced them into pornographic work. The brothers had put them under surveillance, restricted their movements and docked their pay if they cried on camera or broke other rules, prosecutors said.

Text messages cited in the indictment show Andrew Tate and one woman discussing what would happen if she went to Romania.

Woman

do you want me to be your slave or your wife?

Andrew Tate

you'll do whatever I tell you

which is the same thing

if I choose a woman to be my wife, she'll love me enough to let me tell her what I feel like

I WILL DECIDE if she's a slave

Once she arrived, he raped her twice, on one occasion forcing her into group sex, the indictment said.

Andrew choked another woman so hard that blood vessels in her eye burst, prosecutors said.

In a text-message chat titled “PIMPS,” Tristan and two associates discussed how to punish a woman who said she would no longer work for them.

Tristan Tate

The move now is as follows.

Associate 1

Tristan Tate

both of you go, get her out of the house

Associate 2

Tristan Tate

hit her if you have to, I don't care

don't let her take her things

Associate 2

thanks

The woman was pushed down and dragged out of the house, she and witnesses told prosecutors.

Romania, long known as a hub for sex trafficking, has expanded prosecutions to include so-called Lover Boy cases based on romance, psychological coercion and threats. The indictment against the Tates acknowledged that two of the women cited as victims said they didn’t see themselves that way. Prosecutors said evidence showed that they were.

Press releases announcing the arrest, the indictment and the ensuing restrictions on the Tates’ movements made headlines around the world. But Mr. Tate, facing the prospect of prison, didn’t retreat from the controversy. He used it.

From Tucker to Barron

After his arrest, Mr. Tate hired Joseph D. McBride, a lawyer who had defended Trump supporters accused of insurrection at the Capitol. In short order, Mr. McBride pitched his brash new client to the conservative host Tucker Carlson.

In some ways, it was an odd pairing. Mr. Carlson was a proud husband who promoted Christian family values. But he had been ousted from Fox News after lawsuits exposed offensive language in his private messages to colleagues. He was building his own show on Twitter. And Mr. Tate, who had been reinstated on the platform by Elon Musk, had millions of followers there.

In an interview with The Times, Mr. McBride recalled telling Mr. Carlson that if he flew to Romania for a sit-down with Andrew, “I know we’ll break the internet.”

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A black car pulls up to a modern black-and-red building displaying a samurai statue and signs that read “security guard” and “Tate.”

The Tates’ compound in Romania.Credit...Daniel Mihailescu/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images

He was right. The 2023 interview, recorded at Mr. Tate’s luxury home on the outskirts of Bucharest, has drawn more than 112 million views.

They spent much of the two-and-a-half-hour conversation discussing their shared beliefs, including what they saw as a left-wing war on masculinity. Mr. Carlson didn’t press Mr. Tate on his porn operation or his previous comments about exploiting women.

Mr. Carlson misrepresented the criminal allegations in Romania, saying that they involved no sex crimes or violence, or any actions that could be considered trafficking.

“That’s not actually human trafficking,” Mr. Carlson said of the charges. “I don’t care what you call it, you weren’t buying, even accused of buying and selling anyone.”

Asked recently about the interview, Mr. Carlson told The Times, “If I misstated their indictment or got the facts wrong, I sincerely apologize.”

He added, “It doesn’t change my view that the Tates, whatever their personal behavior, had a message worth hearing.”

Interview with Andrew Tate conducted by Tucker Carlson and posted to Twitter in 2023.

The interview helped burnish Mr. Tate’s reputation. Charlie Kirk, the conservative youth organizer and Trump adviser, was among those who tuned in.

“Now I see why he’s popular,” Mr. Kirk said on his podcast. While he expressed disgust over Mr. Tate’s pornography business, he agreed that masculinity was under siege. “He is hitting on something that you’re not allowed to say, where there’s a lot of truth to it.”

Candace Owens, another popular podcaster, flew to Romania and conducted her own sympathetic interview of Mr. Tate. She told her audience it was a mistake to judge him for his past comments or the ostentatious content he posted.

“This is how guys have fun,” she said, “the same way that girls sit around and talk about ‘Real Housewives.’”

In other interviews, Mr. Tate drew parallels that he saw between himself and Mr. Trump: both booted from social media, both criminally prosecuted, both victims of political attacks.

In September 2023, Mr. Trump shared on Truth Social, his social media platform, a video of Tristan defending him. “Thank you!” Mr. Trump wrote.

Mr. McBride, the brothers’ lawyer, pressed their case in meetings with members of Congress, according to an interview he gave to the Republican operative Roger Stone. Mr. McBride said both male and female lawmakers were “outraged” at the brothers’ treatment.

Don Jr. showed support, too. “You’ve got people attacking you as far as I’m concerned,” he told Mr. Tate in a June 2024 conversation live-streamed on X, the renamed Twitter platform. “They just want to silence you.”

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Barron Trump, wearing a dark overcoat and slicked-back hair, stands with one fist raised as people around him smile and clap.

Barron Trump admired Andrew Tate and spoke with him by Zoom last year, according to a mutual friend.Credit...Eric Lee/The New York Times

His younger brother Barron was also a fan.

That spring, as his father was going after young male voters on the campaign trail, the teenager hosted a dinner at Mar-a-Lago for influencers. Among them was Mr. Waller, who has helped run the Tates’ courses and told The Times he is widely seen as the “third brother.”

The conversation that night meandered, Mr. Waller said, from “calling each other degenerate names” to discussing potential running mates for Mr. Trump, who also made an appearance and agreed to go on the podcast of another guest, Patrick Bet-David.

Mr. Waller has tried to play a “big brother” role for Barron, he said, visiting Mar-a-Lago and talking to him about dating. The president’s youngest son is “not a bad ally to have — let’s be frank,” he said.

He and Barron spoke to Andrew over Zoom last year, Mr. Waller said, while the teenager was having a suit fitted by Mr. Waller’s tailor. Although they discussed the Romanian case, Barron did not say anything about helping the Tates, Mr. Waller said. They also talked about supporting Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign on their online platforms.

That summer, when a young man tried to assassinate Mr. Trump, Mr. Tate told reporters that he had talked to Barron after the shooting.

“I’m very close to the Trump family,” he added. “I look forward to, once I am free, being with Donald Trump in person and reminding him that he’s a bulletproof badass.”

Allies Ascend

When Andrew texted in January that the Trump administration was “on top of things,” he didn’t name names.

But several of his supporters had found roles in the incoming government.

Paul Ingrassia, who was initially named White House liaison to the Justice Department, had once been part of the Tates’ legal team. Alina Habba, a counselor to the president who would later serve a brief stint as New Jersey’s top prosecutor, told Andrew on a podcast in January that “I got your back over here.”

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Richard Grenell Alina Habba, seated next to each other amid a crowd, wearing suits and neutral expressions.

Richard Grenell, center, and Alina Habba (wearing glasses) at a Senate confirmation hearing in January.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

And Mr. Grenell, a special presidential envoy, privately discussed the Tates’ case with Romanian officials, The Times found.

At Mar-a-Lago last December, he met Victor Ponta, an adviser to Romania’s prime minister.

Mr. Ponta had traveled to Mr. Trump’s Florida club to make inroads with the president-elect’s inner circle, he told The Times in an interview in Bucharest. His country was in a defensive crouch for its handling of a presidential election. Its highest court had tossed out the first round of votes, citing evidence that Russia had meddled on behalf of the winner, a far-right candidate. Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk, among other American conservatives, accused Romania of undermining democracy.

Mr. Ponta sensed that informal diplomacy would be a big part of the incoming Trump administration. And Mr. Grenell, who would soon negotiate the release of several American detainees in Venezuela, was already positioning himself as a forceful operator.

When asked by The Times whether he and Mr. Grenell discussed the Tates’ case, Mr. Ponta affirmed that they had. “Maybe he saw himself as releasing all the American hostages around the world,” he said, without elaborating further.

Last month, Mr. Ponta backpedaled. In a text exchange with The Times, he said he didn’t recall whether he and Mr. Grenell had talked about the Tates. He then said he was sure they had not.

Mr. Grenell also discussed the Tates’ case in mid-February, with Romania’s then foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, when they crossed paths at a security conference in Munich, as first reported by The Financial Times.

Mr. Grenell disputed the characterization of the encounter, saying in a statement to The Times that it had become exaggerated in media accounts. “I simply ran into him in the hallway,” he said. The foreign minister asked him if he stood by an old tweet showing support for the Tates, he said, and he replied yes. “I have never met the Tate Brothers, I’ve never been to Romania,” Mr. Grenell said. His statement did not address the Mar-a-Lago conversation.

Soon after the Munich conference, the prime minister posted on social media that the United States had not made any requests or demands on Romania.

‘The Tate Escape’

By then, the Tates’ legal problems were snowballing.

In Britain, the women who had accused Andrew of rape and assault a decade earlier were suing him in civil court. And prosecutors had authorized trafficking and rape charges against the brothers based on allegations involving three other women.

In America, Homeland Security anti-trafficking agents had been conducting interviews about the Tates, according to people familiar with the confidential investigation. The agents were working with federal prosecutors who would go on to win the conviction of Sean Combs, the music mogul known as “Diddy.” Both offices declined to comment.

In Romania, a judge had invalidated the 2023 indictment, citing procedural mistakes. But the prosecutors were trying to correct them and move forward with a case.

They had presented evidence that, since 2014, the brothers had between them coerced more than 30 other women, including a 17-year-old, into their pornography operation, court records show.

Mr. Tate was also accused of having sex with a 15-year-old and trying to bribe her to stay quiet. She told investigators he had beaten her with a belt and choked her until she passed out, according to the documents.

The Tates have denied all criminal wrongdoing and Andrew has contested the civil claims.

They said the new women cited in the Romanian investigation did not consider themselves trafficking victims. And they argued that being confined without an indictment violated their rights.

They got their break in late February. The order came down instructing prosecutors to negotiate with them, according to two people familiar with the move who were not authorized to discuss it. The prime minister believed the Trump administration would be happy with the outcome, a third person said.

On Feb. 25, the Tates officially requested to have their travel restrictions removed.

In a text message the next day, Mr. Tate shared his long-sought victory with someone close with him.

Andrew Tate

I have very details instructions from the americans about crossing borders, phones, passports etc. I cant say more. This goes into instant effect.

In the early hours of Feb. 27, the brothers drove to the airport, as documented in a video titled “The Tate Escape.” They beamed at each other as the plane took off for Florida.

When asked that day whether the Trump administration had aided in the Tates’ release, their lawyer, Mr. McBride, told The Times: “Do the math. These guys are on the plane.”

The Tate brothers shared this video with their followers on Rumble this year.

A Rift on the Right

From the moment they arrived on U.S. soil, the Tates encountered pushback.

Their electronic devices were confiscated by border control officials. Mr. Ingrassia, by then the White House liaison to Homeland Security, tried and failed to have their phones returned, ProPublica reported. (Mr. Ingrassia denied the account.)

That night in Miami, the brothers celebrated over cigars with Mr. Waller, he said. But public backlash was mounting, even among some prominent conservatives.

Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro denounced the Tates. Some Republican leaders spoke out, too.

“I certainly don’t think that we should be using any influence in our government to try to get him out of what seemed to be extremely serious charges in Romania,” Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri told HuffPost, referring to Andrew.

After Mr. DeSantis said the brothers were not welcome in Florida, the state’s attorney general announced a criminal investigation of them.

This actually is toxic masculinity, people. This is the real version of it.

Megyn Kelly

Right-wing commentator

America does not need more self-proclaimed pimps.

Ben Shapiro

Right-wing commentator

Florida is not a place where you’re welcome with that type of conduct in the air.

Ron DeSantis

Governor of Florida

As the right-wing rift over the Tates cracked open, Mr. Stone, the Republican operative, deleted an X post saying Mr. Grenell had secured their release. Ms. Habba said that she had “no part” in lifting the Tates’ travel ban.

And Mr. Trump had already said he knew nothing about it.

In mid-March, the brothers flew back to Romania for a court appearance. One of Andrew’s then-girlfriends, Brianna Stern, told the police in Beverly Hills he had assaulted her before he left. On social media, she shared several of his text messages.

Andrew Tate

i really love hitting you its very good for me

and you

its relaxing dont you think

Brianna Stern

pookie no i cry

Prosecutors declined to bring charges, citing insufficient evidence. Ms. Stern is suing Andrew, and he has countersued, claiming defamation. He and Tristan are also suing a woman in Florida who is cited as a victim in the Romanian investigation.

In recent months, Andrew has continued to weigh in on American politics, including calling for “civil war” after Mr. Kirk’s assassination. But while he and his brother have flown in and out of Romania, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, they have not returned to the States.

Many of his allies have stopped publicly defending him.

An exception is Nick Fuentes, a rising voice known for his antisemitic and sexist rhetoric. He and Mr. Tate, both critics of Israel, have lavished each other with praise.

Mr. Tate may not be a paragon of Christian morality, Mr. Fuentes said in an October interview with Mr. Carlson. “But men are going with him because he’s putting women in their place.”

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Andrew Tate, walking outside in a dark hoodie, turns his face to the camera and grins.

Andrew Tate returned to Romania in March for a required check-in with authorities.Credit...Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press

Matei Barbulescu contributed reporting. Produced by Eli Murray.

Photo credits for illustration: Robert Ghement/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (Tate brothers); Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press (Donald Trump Jr.); Pool photo by Chip Somodevilla (Barron Trump); Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press Wire (Candace Owens); Bill Bowden/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Joseph McBride); Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press (Tucker Carlson); Kenny Holston/The New York Times (Alina Habba); Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images (Richard Grenell).

Megan Twohey is an investigative reporter at The Times. Her work has prompted changes to the law, criminal convictions and cultural shifts.

Isabella Kwai is a Times reporter based in London, covering breaking news and other trends.

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democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Tuesday demanded that the Trump administration remove Paul Ingrassia from his appointment at the General Services Administration.

The president in October withdrew his nomination of Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel due to objections from Senate Republicans following reports that he has been accused of sexual harassment and wrote in texts that he has a “Nazi streak” and Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell,” among other racist messages.

Shortly thereafter, however, *Politico*reported that he was being installed as the deputy general counsel at GSA. Ingrassia had been serving as the White House liaison to the Homeland Security Department.

“Mr. Ingrassia’s reappointment to a senior position embraces the very hatred this administration [purports] to combat,” the Senate Democrats wrote in their letter to acting GSA Administrator Michael Rigas and Office of Presidential Personnel Director Dan Scavino. “To the contrary, the Trump administration’s continued support for Mr. Ingrassia and its multiple attempts to find a place for him in this government betray a concerning willingness to support and, intended or not, promote his extremist, misogynist and antisemitic views.”

Ingrassia has a history of making public comments like:

Backing martial law following Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.
Referring to 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as an “insufferable b—-”
Calling Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel a “psyop,” which stands for psychological operation.

The letter also references a Nov. 18 report from *ProPublica* that found Ingrassia, while working for the White House, told DHS officials to return electronic devices belonging to Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist influencer who has been accused of sex trafficking in other countries.

Ingrassia, who graduated from law school in 2022, is currently listed on GSA’s website as the acting general counsel, leading a team of more than 100 attorneys at the agency.

The Senate Democrats requested that they receive a briefing from GSA and OPP by Dec. 9 and that the agencies, by Dec. 12, answer written questions generally about the appointment process for Ingrassia.

The letter is signed by all Democrats on the panel, except for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. The senator said in a statement to Government Executivethat his office was unaware of the letter but that he believes Ingrassia is “unfit to serve in an office of public trust.”

GSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.

“The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The good old days are back,” Tate posted on X before the trip in February — one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.

But when the Tate brothers arrived by private plane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they immediately found themselves in the crosshairs of law enforcement once more, as Customs and Border Protection officials seized their electronic devices.

This time, they had a powerful ally come to their aid. Behind the scenes, the White House intervened on their behalf.

Interviews and records reviewed by ProPublica show a White House official told senior Department of Homeland Security officials to return the devices to the brothers several days after they were seized. The official who delivered the message, Paul Ingrassia, is a lawyer who previously represented the Tate brothers before joining the White House, where he was working as its DHS liaison.

In his written request, a copy of which was reviewed by ProPublica, Ingrassia chided authorities for taking the action, saying the seizure of the Tates’ devices was not a good use of time or resources. The request to return the electronics to the Tates, he emphasized, was coming from the White House.

The incident is the latest in a string of law enforcement matters where the Trump White House has inserted itself to help friends and target foes. Since entering office for a second term, Trump has urged the Justice Department to go after elected officials who investigated him and his businesses, and he pardoned a string of political allies. Andrew Tate is one of the most prominent members of the so-called manosphere, a collection of influencers, podcasters and content creators who helped deliver young male voters to Trump. And news of the White House intervention on behalf of the accused sex traffickers comes as Trump is under fire over his ties to notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his administration’s recent efforts to stop the public release of the so-called Epstein files.

Ingrassia’s intervention on behalf of Tate and his brother, Tristan, caused alarm among DHS officials that they could be interfering with a federal investigation if they followed through with the instruction, according to interviews and screenshots of contemporaneous communications between officials.

One official who was involved and spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid facing retribution said they were disgusted by the request’s “brazenness and the high-handed expectation of complicity.”

“It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” the person said. “We don’t want to be seen as handing out favors.”

It’s unclear why law enforcement wanted to examine the devices, what their analysis found or whether Ingrassia’s intervention hindered any investigation. The White House and DHS declined to answer questions about the incident.

But law enforcement experts said it is highly unusual for the White House to get involved in particular border seizures or to demand authorities give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation.

“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” said John F. Tobon, a retired assistant director for Homeland Security Investigations, which typically analyzes the contents of electronic devices after they’re seized by Customs and Border Protection. “For anyone to say this request is from the White House, it feels like an intimidation tactic.”

Tobon said that even if authorities resisted the request from Ingrassia, knowledge that the White House opposed their actions could cause them to be less aggressive than they would normally be: “Anytime somebody feels intimidated or as if they’re not free to follow procedure, that’s going to stay in the back of their mind because of the consequences. In this administration the consequences are different, people are getting fired.”

Samuel Buell, a Duke University law school professor and former federal prosecutor, called the pressure on behalf of the Tates “another data point” in the White House politicizing law enforcement.

“This is not something that would have been viewed as appropriate or acceptable prior to 2025,” Buell said. “There’s a pattern here of severe departure from preexisting norms … that are being tossed aside left and right.”

The Tate brothers’ lawyer, Joseph McBride, said he didn’t know what happened to the devices but that his clients have still not had them returned. He said it’s unclear whether any investigation into their contents is continuing.

His clients, he said, are innocent and there was no illicit materials on their electronics. “There have been multiple investigations against them and nothing has come of it,” McBride said.

Ingrassia worked at McBride’s firm before joining the White House, and McBride acknowledged speaking “to Paul from time to time” but couldn’t recall discussing the seized devices with him. Ingrassia, he said, has never given the Tates special treatment since joining the Trump administration.

The White House declined to answer questions about whether Ingrassia was acting on his own or representing the White House’s wishes.

In a brief interview with ProPublica, Ingrassia denied trying to help the Tates, before hanging up. “There was no intervention. Nothing happened,” he said. “There was nothing.”

Ingrassia’s lawyer, Edward Paltzik, said in a text message: “Mr. Ingrassia never ordered that the Tate Brothers’ devices be returned to them, nor did he say — and nor would he have ever said — that such a directive came from the White House. This story is fiction, simply not true.”

When questioned about whether Ingrassia had asked authorities to return the devices, even if he did not order them to, Paltzik declined to comment, explaining that “the word ‘ask’ is inappropriate because it is meaningless in this context. He either ordered something or he didn’t. And as I said, he did NOT order anything.”

A DHS spokesperson did not respond to specific questions about the intervention or any impact it might have had on an investigation, only saying in a statement that Customs and Border Protection “performed a 100% baggage examination and detained all electronic media devices when the Tate Brothers entered the country. Electronic media devices were detained and turned over to Homeland Security Investigators for inspectional purposes.”

Ingrassia’s work at McBride’s small New York law firm included helping to represent the Tate brothers. He has praised Andrew Tate’s “physical prowess” on social media along with his “willpower and spirit,” calling him “the embodiment of the ancient ideal of excellence.”

Ethics experts said when government officials take actions to benefit former clients, it undermines public trust.

“The rule of law cannot be carried out if it depends on cronyism,” said Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer who served in the administrations of both parties. “To have a member of the White House interfere when they’ve had a prior client relationship and some sort of personal relationship, that gives rise to questions of impartiality.”

Trump had nominated Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, but the 30-year-old lawyer’s chances for Senate confirmation imploded after Politico reported that he had sent a string of racist text messages to fellow Republicans and described himself as having “a Nazi streak.” Paltzik, his lawyer, raised doubts about the authenticity of the texts but said “even if the texts are authentic, they clearly read as self-deprecating and satirical humor.”

In a post on X announcing he was withdrawing from his Senate confirmation hearing because not enough Republican lawmakers were supporting him, Ingrassia said he would “continue to serve President Trump and this administration to Make America Great Again.”

Last week, Ingrassia announced he was moving to a new role within the administration, after Trump called him into his office and asked him to serve as deputy general counsel at the General Services Administration.

It’s unclear what prompted authorities to seize the Tates’ property, but the bar for searching electronic devices is significantly lower for those entering the U.S. compared with those already in the country, even if they are citizens.

After the seizure, the contents were examined by federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations, according to the official involved. A Homeland Security official, who asked for anonymity because they didn’t have permission to speak publicly, confirmed that HSI agents scrutinized the contents.

The Tates left the United States in late March.

No criminal charges have been filed against the brothers in the United States, though a lawyer representing four anonymous defendants sued by them in Florida filed court papers this year suggesting that federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York were investigating the pair. No other details have become public, and a spokesperson for the prosecutors’ office declined to comment.

In an interview with conservative podcaster Candace Owens soon after landing in Florida, Andrew Tate revealed his devices had been seized, saying they were taken after he refused to give customs officers his passwords.

Tate, who was born in the U.S. but spent much of his childhood in Britain before moving as an adult to Romania, complained that his rights were violated, calling himself “one of the most innocent people on the planet.”

And he said law enforcement officials wouldn’t find anything on his devices: “You think I sleep with a phone full of evidence? You think I don’t wipe my phone every night? You think I’m dumb? Come get me.”

In that interview, Tate made no mention of a White House official intervening on his behalf and seemingly misidentified state authorities in Florida as responsible for taking his devices.

Shortly after the Tates landed on Feb. 27, Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that Florida authorities had launched an investigation into the brothers. Uthmeier said his office had “secured and executed subpoenas and warrants” and called the brothers’ behavior “atrocious.”

“These guys have themselves publicly admitted to participating in what very much appears to be soliciting, trafficking, preying upon women around the world,” he said at the time. “We’re not going to accept it.”

The status of the Florida investigation is unclear. A spokesperson for the Florida attorney general declined to comment for this article.

Allegations of sexual abuse and violence have swirled around Andrew Tate for almost as long as he’s been in the public eye. In 2016, Tate was booted off the cast of the British version of the “Big Brother” reality series around the time a video emerged of him whipping a woman with a belt. Tate said he and the woman were joking.

Tate’s profile only rose afterward, and he began amassing a following as a self-help guru for young men. He quickly aligned himself with Trump’s then-young MAGA movement.

“The tate family support trump FULLY. MAGA!” he posted on social media after meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in 2017.

Tate moved to Romania a year after his brief foray in reality TV, in part, he said, because he believed authorities there investigate sex crimes less aggressively.

“I’m not a … rapist but I like the idea of being able to do what I want,” he said.

But in 2023, prosecutors in Romania accused the Tates of operating a criminal group that trafficked women, including some who alleged the brothers led them to believe they were interested in relationships but instead forced them into filming online pornographic videos. Prosecutors also said they were investigating allegations that the Tates trafficked minors. Andrew Tate was charged with rape. The Tates have denied the allegations, and the initial charges against them were sent back to prosecutors by a court because of procedural issues.

The Tates face similar allegations in Britain. Authorities there authorized a raft of charges against the brothers, including rape and human trafficking, based on allegations from three women. In 2024, arrest warrants were issued for the brothers, who have denied wrongdoing, but authorities said they would not be extradited to the United Kingdom until criminal proceedings in Romania were completed.

A woman has also sued the Tates in Florida, accusing them of luring her to Romania to coerce her into sex work. The Tates have denied the allegations, and last month a judge dismissed most of her claims but allowed for her to refile.

This year, Tate derided the allegations against him and compared himself to Trump on X. “Romania? No case UK? No case USA? No case,” he posted on X. “Lawfare? – Im one of the most mistreated men in history beside president Trump himself.”

The intervention on behalf of the Tates was not the first time those around Trump took an interest in legal issues involving the brothers.

In February, Romania’s foreign minister said that presidential envoy Richard Grenell told him at an international security conference in Germany that he remained interested in the fate of the Tates. “I did not perceive this statement as pressure,” the foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, said, “just a repeat of a known stance.” Grenell told the Financial Times that he had “no substantive conversation” with Hurezeanu but supported “the Tate brothers as evident by my publicly available tweets.”

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Trump's failed nominee sues Politico for $150M over defamation in harassment claim

by ELAINE MALLON | The National News Desk

Tue, October 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Paul Ingrassia, PresidentDonald Trump's failed pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, filed a $150 million lawsuit against Politico and reporter Daniel Lippman over an article which rehashed a retracted sexual harassment complaint filed against him.

On Monday evening, Ingrassia shared a press release announcing the lawsuit on social media. His lawyer Edward Andrew Paltzik named the October 9 article "Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment" written by Lippman as defaming the 31-year-old lawyer, who currently serves as Trump's liaison to theDepartment of Homeland Security.

"Paul has never sexually harassed anyone — full stop," Paltzik wrote.

"This is a historic first step on Paul's road to complete vindication. Although the last two weeks have been extraordinary difficult for Paul and his family, he has displayed incredible composure under fire, even as he faced challenges including the derailment of his nomination and death threats."

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Ingrassia withdrew his nomination last week, following the publication of a separate Politico article on October 20, which revealed alleged texts sent from Ingrassia in a group chat. In one of the messages, Ingrassia allegedly wrote that he had a "Nazi streak," allegedly called for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Kwanzaa, and Black History Month to be "eviscerated," and allegedly wrote that one could "Never trust a chinaman or Indian." Politico did not share the full context of the nature of the conversation that these alleged messages were sent.

“Looks like these texts could be manipulated or are being provided with material context omitted. However, arguendo, even if the texts are authentic, they clearly read as self-deprecating and satirical humor making fun of the fact that liberals outlandishly and routinely call MAGA supporters ‘Nazis,’” Ingrassia's lawyer wrote in a statement to Politico.

Ingrassia nor Paltzik have verified that these text messages were real.

“In this age of AI, authentication of allegedly leaked messages, which could be outright falsehoods, doctored, or manipulated, or lacking critical context, is extremely difficult,” Paltzik continuned. “What is certain, though, is that there are individuals who cloak themselves in anonymity while executing their underhanded personal agendas to harm Mr. Ingrassia at all costs. We do not concede the authenticity of any of these purported messages.”

After the article detailing Ingrassia's alleged text exchange was published, Senator Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said he hoped that the White House would withdraw its nomination of Ingrassia, saying that he didn't have the votes to be confirmed.

The National News Desk reached out to POLITICO and Daniel Lippman for comment.

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Paul J. Ingrassia (born May 13, 1995) is an American attorney and political commentator who has served as the White House liaison to the United States Department of Homeland Security since 2025. Ingrassia served as the White House liaison to the Department of Justice from January to February 2025.

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President Donald Trump's nomination of Paul Joseph Ingrassia to lead the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has triggered bipartisan alarm, with critics accusing the administration of placing an inexperienced and ideologically extreme figure at the helm of a critical oversight agency.

In May, Trump described Ingrassia in a social media post as a “highly respected attorney, writer and Constitutional Scholar.”

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From 2021 to 2023, Ingrassia worked for Kasowitz Benson Torres. For several months in 2023, he worked as a clerk for Joseph D. McBride's law firm, representing clients accused of having participated in the January 6 Capitol attack.^[4] Ingrassia represented Andrew Tate in his legal affairs.^[8] He was registered as an attorney in New York in July 2024.^[11]

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Amanda Moore @ The Intercept: Project 2025 Data Leak Shows a Paul Ingrassia Calling for Test for Voting and Halting Immigration

Trump appointed far-right loyalist Paul Ingrassia to head a Justice Department office responsible for keeping politics out of the civil service.

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Ingrassia has advocated for the far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes, describing him in a post on Substack as among several "dissident voices" who should be integrated within conservative politics.^[3] He has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners.^[15]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency withdrew from consideration Tuesday evening, after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted.

Paul Ingrassia, who was nominated to lead the Office of Special Counsel, had been scheduled to have his confirmation hearing this week.

On Monday, however, Politico reported on a text chat that showed him saying the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell.” Ingrassia also described himself in the chat as having “a Nazi streak” at times.

After the texts came to light, several Republican senators said they would not support his nomination. They included some of the most conservative and stalwart Trump allies in the Senate.

“I will be withdrawing myself from Thursday’s HSGAC hearing to lead the Office of Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time,” Ingrassia posted in an online message. “I appreciate the overwhelming support that I have received throughout the process and will continue to serve President Trump and the administration to Make America Great Again!” HSGAC is the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs.

Asked for comment on Ingrassia withdrawing his name from consideration, the White House said simply, “He is no longer the nominee.” But Ingrassia’s post came after Senate Majority Leader John Thune had said he hoped the White House would withdraw Ingrassia’s nomination and several GOP senators said they would not support him.

Sitting duck’? Meet an EPA environmental justice staffer.

By Sean Reilly, Ellie Borst | 06/04/2025

The Trump administration’s gutting of diversity programs highlights a seeming paradox of vows to deliver clean air, land and water for “every American.”

Swati Rayasam, an EPA environmental protection specialist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, was notified in February that she was being placed on administrative leave with a potentially permanent layoff due to environmental justice-affiliated work for the agency. Sharada Prasad

Swati Rayasam knew her job at EPA would be upended. She just didn’t expect it to happen so soon.

“You are receiving this email because you have been identified as an EPA employee working in ‘environmental justice’ or a diversity, equity, and inclusion position and/or office,” the Feb. 6 message read.

Rayasam, an environmental protection specialist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, was immediately placed on paid administrative leave. Now threatened with a potentially permanent layoff, she’s one of hundreds of EPA employees facing dismissal or reassignment in a purge without precedent.

For Rayasam, it likely spells the end of a career begun only a year and a half ago. But the episode also highlights a seeming paradox at the heart of the Trump administration’s agenda as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin highlights the importance of clean air, land and water for “every American.”

That, says Rayasam, is exactly what her job entailed.

With a background in ensuring that the laws apply “to all the people that live in this country,” she said in one of several video interviews with POLITICO’s E&E News, “I really saw the opportunity at the Office of Environmental Justice to make that a reality.”

Zeldin has axed Raysam’s job, as part of a drive to abolish EPA’s entire Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.

That’s in line with President Donald Trump’s day one executive order to end initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion, which Trump has characterized as a form of reverse discrimination. Zeldin has described the move as “elimination of forced discrimination programs.” At EPA and other agencies, the administration has proceeded with implementation of the White House’s directive at striking speed.

Trump’s and Zeldin’s stances represent “the larger political discourse … and a fundamental misunderstanding of what environmental justice is,” Rayasam said.

Trump’s executive orders, for example, skate over the abundant studies showing that people of color and low-income communities are more likely to face exposure to dangerous pollution. By Rayasam’s description, environmental justice is woven by law into the work of EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, perennially swamped with reviews of new chemicals before they can go on the market.

That misunderstanding has left her, a public health scientist focused on chemicals policy, as “just a sitting duck,” she said.

Instead of doing a job where she mostly worked in tandem with the chemicals office, Rayasam now sits in limbo as her agency ID card gathers dust.

Her plight is emblematic of the whiplash accompanying the transition from President Joe Biden’s administration, which put an unparalleled emphasis on environmental justice, to Trump’s.

‘Too much work’

Her looming ouster results from Zeldin’s insistence that EPA circumscribe its activities only to those authorized by statute.

By his reading, that means EPA needs to reassign at least 100 staffers elsewhere within the agency to help clear the backlog of new chemicals awaiting review by the chemical safety office.

Major amendments passed to the Toxic Substances Control Act in 2016 created a new requirement for regulators to make a safety determination on each new chemical before it is allowed into the market, which industry trade groups complain has created significant wait times impeding the nation’s innovation and manufacturing capabilities.

The new TSCA amendments also require the agency to rein in dangerous uses of some of the most notorious industrial mainstays, such as asbestos or formaldehyde. The statute spells out the factors EPA must consider when deciding which existing substances will be prioritized for review, including consideration of “potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations.”

Rayasam said that’s a “pretty explicit” example of a statute mandating environmental justice practices, and factoring in population and exposure variability is a relatively new priority for EPA.

That’s where the environmental justice office staffers stepped in, she said.

“EPA has always had too much work,” Rayasam said. “So [the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights] provided a breath of fresh air, to be able to say … ‘You have all these people working to assist [the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention] on a specific thing that we’re trying to achieve. Not just because the administration thinks it’s important, but because the statute and statutory amendments actually call for it.'”

Take formaldehyde, for example.

It’s a compound fiercely defended by industry trade groups as critical for sterilizing medical devices and for the production of various building materials or consumer products.

But inhalation of its fumes can lead to cancer, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and other serious long-term illnesses. Communities surrounding formaldehyde manufacturing plants are among the populations at risk for associated chronic illnesses, according to EPA’s final risk evaluation for formaldehyde.

Part of Rayasam’s job was to make sure EPA’s scientific assessments considered the impacts on largely overlooked — and highly exposed — communities in chemical risk assessments, such as formaldehyde exposure for people living in mobile homes.

“All the work that I did was also in the interest of EPA using the best available, most robust science that considered all the communities that it was required to consider, including [potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations],” she said.

‘An ounce of prevention’

Environmental justice, according to a 1998 EPA definition, “means that no group of people should bear a disproportionate burden of environmental harms and risks, including those resulting from the negative environmental consequences of industrial, governmental, and commercial operations or programs and policies.”

According to Zeldin, environmental justice is “the desire is that these people or communities that have been left behind deserve and need attention to be able to remediate and deal with an environmental issue.”

“I couldn’t possibly agree with that definition more,” he said at a conference in March.

But Zeldin works for a president who has methodically razed decades of work to weave environmental justice into the fabric of the federal government’s day-to-day business.

And during various media appearances, Zeldin has blamed the Biden administration for losing sight of that core bipartisan goal and has targeted environmental justice work “as an excuse to fund left-wing activists” who diagnose what the problem is instead of on direct remediation of the issue.

In response to questions, EPA press secretary Carolyn Holran reemphasized Zeldin’s past comments, adding, “the Trump EPA is focused on providing clean air, land, and water for every American regardless of race, gender, creed, and background. … And we’ll do it without wasting billions in taxpayer dollars on left-wing activist giveaways.”

But Rayasam said Zeldin’s assessment overlooks the importance of preventing exposures before they happen.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” she said.

Raised in Durham, North Carolina, Rayasam grew up about an hour’s drive from Warren County, a primarily Black enclave where 1982 landfill protests are seen as a pivotal force in launching the environmental justice movement nationally.

She got degrees in biology and global health, then worked for almost five years in a program on reproductive health and the environment at the University of California, San Francisco. She started at EPA in November 2023.

“People thought I was going to come in like a hammer, basically, for EJ communities,” Rayasam said. “The first thing I would say to literally anybody is ‘You guys have a mountain of work, and I’m just here to try to figure out how to help you get it done. I’m here to pitch in, I would never ask people to modify anything that I was not willing to put my own skin in.'”

Joining Rayasam on the calls with E&E News were attorneys from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a worker advocacy group representing her and other idled environmental justice staffers in a complaint filed in April with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an ostensibly independent agency charged with enforcing federal workforce safeguards.

The complaint seeks to force EPA to put them all back to work partly on the grounds that federal law limits administrative leave to no more than 10 days per year. The special counsel’s office is now investigating, according to Laura Dumais, staff counsel for PEER.

A spokesperson for the special counsel’s office declined to comment.

In February, Trump fired the office’s chief, Hampton Dellinger, a Biden administration appointee who had been contesting the push to cashier thousands of probationary workers throughout the government. In Dellinger’s place, Trump named Jamieson Greer as acting head. Greer, who is also serving as U.S. trade representative, quickly dropped the inquiry into the firings. Trump last week said he was tapping Paul Ingrassia, a former right-wing podcast host, to lead the office.

“It really looks like the OSC is now under new management,” Dumais said. “It just really highlights the importance of an OSC that’s not controlled directly by the executive branch.”

*Sean Reilly and Ellie Borst can be reached on Signal at SeanReilly.70 and eborst.64.

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A Republican senator may be the swing vote that sinks a high‑stakes confirmation. Ron Johnson (R‑Wis.) said Monday the White House should withdraw the nomination of Paul Ingrassia to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC).

“I hope that happens," he told HuffPost reporter Igor Bobic.

Johnson’s stance raises the prospect that this 15-member Senate panel – with 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats – could block the nominee’s path forward. He serves on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is scheduled to hold hearings for Ingrassia this week. Assuming Johnson votes no with all Democrats, Ingrassia's nomination would fail to move to the full Senate.

President Donald Trump tapped Ingrassia, a 30‑year‑old lawyer and former conservative podcast host, for the OSC role in late May. The agency oversees protections for federal whistleblowers and ensures enforcement of the Hatch Act (which prohibits government officials from using their official powers to conduct partisan political activities).

Critics have raised serious concerns over her nomination.

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Ingrassia was admitted to the bar in July 2024, giving him only limited experience compared to past OSC chiefs. He has also been linked to far‑right figures and made public statements that alarm watchdog groups. Politico reported Monday on leaked texts in which Ingrassia used racial slurs with fellow Republicans and called for holidays like Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Kwanzaa to be "eviscerated."

Democrats on the committee, including Richard Blumenthal (D‑Conn.), have privately acknowledged “some sense of dismay” among Republican colleagues,per the Washington Post.

In July, Blumenthal said this may be “one of those nominations where Republicans have a hard time keeping their majority together.”

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President Donald Trump's nominee to a top federal post once railed against commemorating African American holidays and used racial slurs in newly leaked text messages.

Politico reported Monday that Paul Ingrassia – who Trump tapped to lead the Office of Special Counsel (an independent office not part of the Department of Justice) — confided to fellow Republicans in a private text message thread that he wanted the U.S. to stop celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, saying it should be "tossed in the seventh circle of hell where it belongs." He also used an Italian slur for Black people in one of the texts.

"We're making Kwanzaa illegal in the next Trump admin," Ingrassia wrote in one message. "No moulignon holidays from Kwanza[sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth."

"Every single one needs to be eviscerated," he added.

When one member of the chat quipped that Ingrassia belonged in Germany's World War II-era fascist regime alongside "Ubergruppenfuhrer Steve Bannon," Ingrassia responded by admitting he did have a "streak" associated with those beliefs. Group members also acknowledged that Ingrassia was a fan of white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes and his "Live from America" show on the far-right YouTube alternative Rumble, writing: "New LFA show coming starring Nick Fuentes & Paul Adolf Ingrassia." The Trump nominee responded with "lmao."

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Politico reported that Ingrassia went to a rally Fuentes organized in 2024, and lamented that it was an "awful decision" for Turning Point USA (the group founded by slain MAGA activist Charlie Kirk) to eject Fuentes from one of its events. The outlet also linked him to misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate, who has been accused of human trafficking in Romania, and suggested that Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel was a "psyop." The Washington Post reported that Ingrassia once praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for "standing up for traditional Christianity and Western values."

If confirmed to lead the OSC, Ingrassia would be tasked with protecting federal workers, investigates complaints of retaliation against government whistleblowers and enforces the Hatch Act (which prohibits officials using their government offices for partisan political activities).

Click here to read Politico's report in full.

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The Stakes with John Harwood

Meet the 30-Year-Old Far-Right Provocateur Nominated by Trump to Investigate Jack Smith

Paul Ingrassia, who has defended Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate and was only admitted to the bar last year, is Donald Trump's nominee to run the all-important Office of Special Counsel.

John Harwood

Aug 05, 2025

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To grasp how Donald Trump is degrading the caliber of the US government, consider his deployment of a young man named Paul Ingrassia.

Ingrassia is 30 years old. He graduated from law school three years ago.

He was admitted to the New York bar last year, but “lawyer” is not the way to think about what he does. Ingrassia is a far-right provocateur, best known for his former podcast, which published a post calling for martial law in 2020; his support for antisemitic Holocaust-denying extremists such as Nick Fuentes; his participation on the legal team of “manosphere” influencer and alleged rapist Andrew Tate, who denies any wrongdoing; his tweet calling former Vice President Mike Pence a “traitor” who belongs in the “ninth circuit of hell”; and his false but Trump-pleasing assertion that former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was ineligible to run for president in 2024.

“She should be deported if you ask me,” Ingrassia declared in late 2023.

For this record, Trump has nominated Ingrassia to run the Office of Special Counsel. That’s right: the president is asking the US Senate to place this bigoted zealot in charge of the independent legal agency tasked with protecting federal whistleblowers and enforcing prohibitions on political activity by government employees.

It says a lot about Ingrassia’s qualifications and fitness for this job that the Republican Senate committee considering the nomination postponed a committee confirmation hearing more than 10 days ago. Pliant Republican senators have confirmed nearly all Trump nominees so far.

But everything about this situation demonstrates how Trump has trashed the functioning and character of the workforce charged with enforcing the laws and protecting the interests of more than 340 million Americans.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling @ The New Republic: Trump’s Relationship With Epstein Further Exposed in Bombshell Video

In resurfaced video testimony, Jeffrey Epstein was asked if he and Donald Trump ever spent time with young girls.

Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: MAGA Inches Closer to a Ghislaine Maxwell Alliance

Is perpetrating heinous crimes against children too big a hurdle for a political alliance of convenience? Maybe not.

Kathryn Wilkens @ Mediaite: Candace Owens Vows to Fight Macron Lawsuit Over Claim French First Lady Is a Man: ‘Obvious’ She ‘Has a Penis’

Candace Owens doubled down on her claim that French First Lady Brigitte Macron was born a man on Wednesday after French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife filed a defamation lawsuit against the right-wing commentator accusing her of spreading the conspiracy theory that Brigitte was born “Jean-Michel Trogneux.”

Amanda Moore @ The Intercept: Project 2025 Data Leak Shows a Paul Ingrassia Calling for Test for Voting and Halting Immigration

Trump appointed far-right loyalist Paul Ingrassia to head a Justice Department office responsible for keeping politics out of the civil service.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: So much for ‘looking forward’: Republicans launch yet another Jan. 6 probe

The GOP's Jan. 6 probe in the last Congress was an embarrassing dud. Rather than learn an obvious lesson, the party is going to give it a second try.

Jessica Mason Pieklo @ Rewire News Group: These Two ‘Culture Warriors’ Are Trump’s New Federal Judges

The conservative legal movement used Trump’s first term to seize control of the federal courts. Will it use his second term to rewrite the Constitution entirely?

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During his first presidency, Donald Trump often clashed with traditional non-MAGA conservatives he chose for his administration—some of whom he fired, including former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton. But since returning to the White House five and one-half months ago, Trump has made a point of surrounding himself with ultra-MAGA loyalists — from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Trump's critics often accuse him of valuing loyalty over experience. Now, according to CNN, his nominee to head the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is drawing scrutiny for a variety of reasons.

The nominee is Paul Ingrassia, a 30-year-old MAGA attorney known for promoting far-right conspiracy theories.

CNN reporters Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Dalia Abdelwahab, in an article published on July 2, explain, "Ingrassia would mark a sharp departure from previous heads of the OSC — a role designed to be politically independent and protect whistleblowers from retaliation. Rather than a long record of managerial or prosecutorial experience, typical of those who previously held the job, Ingrassia brings a fervent loyalty to Trump and a lengthy record of inflammatory statements, only a small portion of which have been previously reported."

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CNN's KFile, according to the journalists, "reviewed hundreds of Ingrassia's comments between 2019 and 2024" and found that he wasn't shy about promoting conspiracy theories.

"Last year, on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks," Kaczynski, Steck and Abdelwahab note, "Ingrassia shared a video of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claiming the U.S. government planned the attacks or let them happen, with Jones boasting in his tweet, 'I've been exposing 9/11 since before it even happened.' Ingrassia had defended Jones several months earlier, writing, 'WE ALL STAND WITH ALEX JONES!!' in June 2024. He was commenting on a video of Jones crying on his broadcast over fears that his InfoWars media platform could be shut down due to $1.5 billion in judgments against Jones for spreading false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax."

The CNN reporters add, "Ingrassia and his podcast's X account have also shared comments from notorious white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Ingrassia has argued publicly that 'straight white men' are the most intelligent demographic group and should be prioritized in education."

Ingrassia, they point out, "once co-hosted a podcast that called for martial law and secession after Trump's 2020 defeat if all legal efforts failed."

"On the night of January 6, 2021," Kaczynski, Steck and Abdelwahab recall, "the podcast account also posted a quote from President John F. Kennedy, reading, 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, (will) make violent revolution inevitable.' Ingrassia, a longtime defender of January 6 participants, was later present for the release of convicted January 6 rioters after Trump commuted their sentences."

*Read the full CNN article at this link (subscription required).

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Trump nominee to lead Office of Special Counsel Paul Ingrassia suggested it's “very based” to think women should not vote

Ingrassia also said Nikki Haley “should be deported,” but added, “I realize she's — I guess she was born here”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 05/30/25

On May 29, President Donald Trump “nominated Paul Ingrassia, a former far-right podcast host now serving as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, to a new important role: head of the Office of Special Counsel, an independent corruption-fighting agency that safeguards federal whistle-blowers and enforces some ethics laws,” as reported by The New York Times.

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From the December 19, 2023, edition of LFA TV's America First Live, streamed on Rumble

ALAN JACOBY (HOST): I don't want a woman as a vice president. My wife – I am married to the biggest misogynist this side of the Mississippi, by the way.

My wife literally thinks women should not vote. I tend to agree with her a lot –

PAUL INGRASSIA (GUEST): She’s very based.

JACOBY: Unless of course you’re voting for Donald Trump.

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And Nikki Haley, forget about it. Forget Nikki Haley birdbrain, warmonger. It's – There's no way. I'd have to agree with Tucker Carlson. I'd have a hard time if that was the VP choice because she'll be just eyeing for 2028 or whatever the case is if they could somehow take Trump out, and I just I could not, I couldn't see it.

INGRASSIA: She's so terrible. She's so incompetent. I mean, it's amazing that she even had that position as ambassador to the United Nations. I mean, I can't believe this woman made it so far in her professional political career given how dumb she just sounds on the campaign trail. And the fact that she is so, I mean, she's pretty decently financially supported. I mean, you really just question the sanity of the people who are behind her. I mean, this woman sounds like a child.

She shouldn't even, you know, she shouldn't, she should be stripped of all of her titles. She should be deported if you were to ask me, you know, to tell you the truth, even though I realize she's — I guess she was born here.

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JAKE TAPPER (HOST): They're pretty explicitly not only misogynistic, but I think Andrew Tate's been accused of antisemitism, too. How widespread is their influence in the MAGA movement?

MATT SHEA (GUEST): It's incredibly widespread, and they are allied to the highest levels of the Trump administration. I mean, for example, Paul Ingrassia, one of Tate's lawyers who defended him in the human trafficking case he's being investigated for, is now a top White House official. And, so, the alliance is there, and Trump probably thinks that the Tate brothers helped to radicalize a large portion of young men towards the MAGA movement and helped him get elected.

TAPPER: There's obviously a right of free speech, and they and their supporters have a right to express their views, however repugnant, misogynistic, antisemitic others may find them. But one wonders, is there a risk for people in the MAGA movement, Don Jr. or whomever, embracing them?

SHEA: 100%. I mean, I think in terms of pure crazy factor, this might be the craziest thing the Trump administration has done so far. I mean, allegedly pressuring the Romanian government to release two people who are being investigated for human trafficking and serial rape -- charges that they deny. But I've spoken to some of these alleged victims. There's at least 48 alleged victims in all of the cases against the Tates currently.

I mean, why is it not political suicide to align yourself with these people? That's the question, and it may turn out to be. But I think it's very surprising Dana White hasn't said anything about this yet. The UFC hasn't said anything about this yet. I'm wondering if Mark Zuckerberg is worried because he, of course, recently added Dana White to the board for Meta, presumably because, you know, it gave him some sort of cool factor in his new drive to be considered more masculine.

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a legal expert sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump's nomination of a MAGA influencer to lead an obscure but important federal agency.

The president nominated far-right podcaster Paul Ingrassia to head up the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which was set up by Congress after Watergate to protect whistleblowers and other federal workers from unlawful employment practices, as well as enforcing the Hatch Act that forbids political activity in the federal workplace, wrote former prosecutor Barbara McQuade for MSNBC.

"Picking Paul Ingrassia to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel is not like putting the fox in charge of the hen house," McQuade wrote. "It’s more like setting fire to the whole farm."

"The nature of the work demands an experienced investigator who is scrupulously apolitical," she added. "Ingrassia is anything but."

The 30-year-old Ingrassia has been an attorney for only three years and previously worked at the far-right Claremont Institute, where Trump's infamous legal adviser John Eastman came from before hatching the 2020 fake elector scheme. McQuade said the president's nominee was woefully unqualified for this new role.

"Ingrassia doesn’t have the legal experience for the role," she wrote. "But he has something more important, at least for this administration. Early in Trump’s second term, Ingrassia served as the president’s liaison to the Justice Department, where he referred to himself as Trump’s 'eyes and ears,' according to NBC News. He was reassigned to the Department of Homeland Security after he reportedly clashed with DOJ officials by pushing to hire candidates with 'exceptional loyalty' to Trump, reports ABC News."

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He urged Trump to pardon all of the Jan. 6 rioters and called for $1 million in reparations to each of their families, and he advocated for the president to identify all the judges and prosecutors in those cases and call for their resignations, she wrote.

"His views on the Jan. 6 riot are extreme, even by MAGA standards," McQuade wrote. "Ingrassia also urged Congress to make Jan. 6 a national holiday to place 'the day’s events in their proper historical context: as a peaceful protest against a great injustice affecting our electoral system' [and] referred to former Vice President Mike Pence as a traitor who belongs in 'the ninth circle of hell.'"

"All private citizens are entitled to express their opinions, but someone who is either as delusional or sycophantic as Ingrassia is, in my opinion, simply unfit to lead an agency that is tasked with enforcing nonpartisanship," McQuade added.

Trump fired Hampton Dellinger, Joe Biden's appointee as OSC head, in February, and while a court found his dismissal was unlawful, he dropped his legal challenge when an appeals court declined to reinstate him, and the president moved to neuter the agency after its oversight found 13 senior administration officials in his first term had violated the Hatch Act.

"Like the U.S. attorney position, the head of the Office of Special Counsel must be confirmed by the Senate. For the sake of our federal workforce and the important work they do for our country, let’s hope this nomination meets the same fate as [U.S. attorney nominee Ed] Martin’s

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Ingrassia studied mathematics and economics at Fordham University. After graduating, he wrote for The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit, as well as co-hosted a podcast. Ingrassia later attended Cornell Law School and worked for Kasowitz Benson Torres and Joseph D. McBride, representing Andrew Tate. He established a Substack page that has been cited by President Donald Trump on several occasions, including a false claim that Nikki Haley was not eligible to serve as president.

In January 2025, Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, named Ingrassia as the White House liaison to the Department of Justice. Amid a dispute with Chad Mizelle, attorney general Pam Bondi's chief of staff, Ingrassia was reassigned to the Department of Homeland Security the following month. In May, Trump named Ingrassia as his nominee for special counsel of the United States.

Early life and education (1995–2022)

Paul J. Ingrassia^[1] was born on May 13, 1995.^[2] Ingrassia graduated from Fordham University with a degree in mathematics and economics.^[3] He graduated from Cornell Law School in May 2022.^[4]

Career

Political activities (2018–present)

While attending law school, Ingrassia wrote for The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit. He was twice named as a fellow at the Claremont Institute.^[5] Ingrassia interned at the White House in Donald Trump's first presidency.^:{[6] He is a :{New York Young Republican.^[7] By 2024, Ingrassia had led communications at}:

National Constitutional Law Union, a self-described counterfirm to the American Civil Liberties Union.^[4]}:

Ingrassia co-hosted a podcast, Right on Point (2018–2020), with his sister, Olivia Ingrassia, a recent law graduate of NYU.^[8] He has maintained a Substack that was read by Trump as early as April 2024, according to Politico Magazine;^[9] Ingrassia has described his blog as "President Trump's favorite Substack".^[10] In January, he falsely claimed that Nikki Haley was ineligible to serve as president as neither of her parents were born in the United States, citing a post from the far-right political activist Laura Loomer. The claim was repeated by Trump.^[7]

Legal work (2021–2023)

White House liaison (2025–present)

In January 2025,^[12] Ingrassia was appointed as the Trump administration's liaison to the Department of Justice by Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general.^[13] He was present for the release of pardoned January 6 Capitol attack defendants jailed in the D.C. Jail.^[12] His tenure marked a pursuit to find candidates loyal to Trump, including calling for employees who worked for attorneys general Merrick Garland or William Barr to be fired. Amid a dispute with Chad Mizelle, attorney general Pam Bondi's chief of staff, Ingrassia was reassigned to the Department of Homeland Security the following month, according to ABC News.^[4]

Special Counsel of the United States

On May 29, 2025, Trump named Ingrassia as his nominee for special counsel of the United States, succeeding Hampton Dellinger, who was dismissed as special counsel in February.^[8]

Views

Following the 2020 presidential election, Ingrassia called for Trump to declare martial law and called for secession if efforts to overturn the election failed. He denounced Sebastian Gorka for rebuking a post that called for vice president Mike Pence—whom Ingrassia has compared to well-known traitors Marcus Junius Brutus and Judas Iscariot—to be arrested and hanged.^[¹⁴]

Ingrassia has referred to the October 7 attacks as a psychological operation.^[16]

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Paul J. Ingrassia is an American attorney and political commentator who has served as the White House liaison to the United States Department of Homeland Security since 2025. Ingrassia served as the White House liaison to the Department of Justice from January to February 2025. Ingrassia studied mathematics and economics at Fordham University. After graduating, he wrote for The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit, as well as co-hosted a podcast. Wikipedia

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