When President Donald Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia , a 30-year-old lawyer and far-right provocateur, to run the Office of Special Counsel, he described him as a “highly respected attorney, writer, and Constitutional Scholar.” Just months later, and on the eve of a Senate hearing to confirm his position as head of the federal whistleblower agency, Ingrassia announced he was withdrawing from consideration for the job. The cause of this spectacular implosion was the revelation, in a Politico report published this week, of a group chat in which Ingrassia allegedly made a series of racist and offensive remarks. “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it,” read one.

Ingrassia’s lawyer offered two competing explanations for his client’s alleged texts. “Looks li

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