The leak of a Young Republican group chat has garnered the attention of the White House, with reports stating that officials confronted a State Department staffer accused of getting the messages to Politico, and Vice President JD Vance arguing that threatening texts sent by Democrat Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones were “1,000 times worse.”
Politico published excerpts from 2,900 pages of a 12-member Telegram group called “RESTOREYR WAR ROOM” earlier this week, revealing offensive jokes on race, sexual assault, and the Holocaust:
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n–ga” and “n–guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, re