President Donald Trump appointed Paul Ingrassia, a former Podcast host with a long history of inflammatory remarks, to direct the American office special advice.
“Paul is a highly respected lawyer, writer and constitutional scholar, who has done great work as a White House affair for internal security,” said Trump in an article on his social media platform Truth Social announcing the appointment Thursday evening.
Ingrassia is a former far -right podcastor and commentator with a long list of incendiary comments. He called on January 6 to be declared a national holiday To honor the “peaceful protest against a great injustice affecting our electoral system” and rejected on October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks Israel as “psyop. “”
He worked and praised the influencer of “Manosphere” Andrew Tatefacing accusations of rape and trafficking in human beings, calling it an “extraordinary human being”. He described Tate “a dissident of authoritarianism “ – a title which, according to him, also applies to the white nationalist Nick FuentesRapper Ye and Trump.
He also asked that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris be imprisoned, and qualified the former vice-president Mike Pence as “the FBI”.
Ingrassia is a graduate of Cornell Law in 2022, joined the conservative reflection group The Claremont Institute later this year, became a leader of the New York Young Republican Club, then was a frequent presence during the Trump rallies and Mar-A-Lago in 2023 and 2024.
He is currently working as a bond of the White House at the Ministry of Internal Security and was previously the connection of the administration with the Ministry of Justice, where he had been seen walking in theaters, praising the agenda of the president and saying to the people he acted like the “eyes and ears” of the White House.
His position at the special advice office will require confirmation from the Senate.
The CSO is a federal investigation agency and independent federal proceedings, responsible for protecting federal employees from prohibited personnel practices, including reprisals for denunciation.
The chief of the agency is confirmed to a five -year term, but Trump then pulled the chief of the OSC Hampton Dellinger Earlier this year. Dellinger, a candidate of Biden who was confirmed to the post last year, led his dismissal to the court but ultimately dropped the costume.
Ingrassia thanked Trump for having named her in a post on X.
“As a special advisor, my team and I will endeavor to restore the competence and integrity of the executive branch-with priority on the elimination of waste, fraud and abuse in federal workforce and revitalize the rule of law and equity in the application of the trap law,” he wrote.
