Trump Pick for Special Counsel Pulls Out Amid Racist Text Scandal

 https://www.newsweek.com/ingrassia-withdraws-trump-special-counsel-racist-text-scandal-10916824

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a federal watchdog agency withdrew from consideration Tuesday after a series of racist and inflammatory text messages attributed to him became public, prompting a backlash from Senate Republicans.

Paul Ingrassia, nominated to head the Office of Special Counsel, had been scheduled to appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee later this week. But his confirmation bid unraveled after Politico reported on messages in which he described the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday as belonging in “the seventh circle of hell” and referred to himself as having “a Nazi streak.”