Trump nominee to lead whistleblower office drops out after racist texts surface

Report on Paul Ingrassia featured messages where he allegedly described himself as having a Nazi streak'

Paul Ingrassia, Donald Trump's nominee to oversee federal whistleblower protections, has dropped out after racist text messages he sent surfaced this week.

Ingrassia, currently a White House liaison at the Department of Homeland Security, was the subject of a report on Monday published in Politico. The report featured text messages where he allegedly described himself as having a Nazi streak" and suggested Martin Luther King Jr Day should be tossed into the seventh circle of hell".