Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Monday that the White House should pull back President Trump’s nomination of Paul Ingrassia to head the Office of Special Counsel after Republican senators said they would not vote for him.

Ingrassia’s nomination raised concerns among Republican members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Monday after Politico reported he told a group of Republican associates that Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and said he has a “Nazi streak.”

Thune told reporters Monday the White House should consider withdrawing Ingrassia’s nomination.

“He’s not going to pass,” Thune said.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee, where Republicans hold an 8-7 majority, is scheduled to hold a hearing on Ing

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