This Paul Ingrassia character Trump has nominated for Office of Special Counsel really takes the cake...

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A self professed Nazi.

Has gone on the record as saying that the descendants of slaves should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners.

Graduated from law school in May of 2022, but does not appear to have been admitted to any state bar prior to 2024 - which begs the question, did this moron actually manage to fail at least three consecutive bar exams prior to admission?

What the fuck kind of resume is this?

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1. Of course Shit Mouth has yet to withdraw his support.

It's a resumé plus in this regime.

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2. Actually, he could have failed the bar exam more times than 3

Most states hold bar exams twice per year

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3. What law school...? NM

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4. Cornell. But, would it have surprised anyone if he'd gone to an unaccredited night school?

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5. Paul Ingrassia has withdrawn from his upcoming confirmation hearing to lead the Office of Special Counsel

Link to tweet

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6. MaddowBlog-Trump's latest failed nominee makes the White House appear even more incompetent

Paul Ingrassia’s nomination was an obvious debacle, but he’s only the latest addition to a growing list of personnel failures.

Every time a Trump nominee fails, the White House looks even more incompetent:
- Paul Ingrassia
- E.J. Antoni
- Brian Quintenz
- Matt Gaetz
- Dave Weldon
- Ed Martin
- Janette Nesheiwat
- Chad Chronister
- Kathleen Sgamma
- Jared Isaacman
- Elise Stefanik www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-22T12:59:19.307Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-latest-failed-nominee-makes-white-house-appear-even-incompetent-rcna239083

The process surrounding Donald Trump’s nominees tends to resemble an efficient assembly line. The president taps a loyalist with dubious qualifications; obedient Senate Republicans do what the White House tells them to do; and the nominees are confirmed to powerful positions that many of them clearly shouldn’t have.

Lately, however, the assembly line has broken down with surprising frequency. Take this week, for example. MSNBC reported:

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, Paul Ingrassia, withdrew his name from consideration on Tuesday after his confirmation looked destined to fail. In a social media post Tuesday night, Ingrassia said he would no longer attend his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday ‘because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time.’

The right-wing nominee’s record is filled with a great many ridiculous comments, but his head count was correct: Ingrassia’s history of radicalism made him one of the president’s most outlandish nominees to date, but after Politico reported on a group text in which Ingrassia acknowledged his “Nazi streak,” a variety of prominent GOP senators said they’d vote against him.....

But this is not, strictly speaking, simply a story about the demise of a ridiculous nomination. Rather, it’s equally important to appreciate the larger pattern — because while the conventional wisdom is that the Republican-led Senate reflexively confirms every misguided Trump nominee, that’s not entirely the case.

Earlier this month, for example, Brian Quintenz’s nomination to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission failed, and just a few days earlier, E.J. Antoni’s nomination to become the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics failed in the face of bipartisan opposition.

And while three nomination failures in three weeks is a lot, the problem has persisted for months. Indeed, the same list also includes Matt Gaetz, Dave Weldon, Ed Martin, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, Chad Chronister, Kathleen Sgamma and Jared Isaacman. (If we widen the aperture a bit, Elise Stefanik is also arguably part of the same group.)

The longer this list grows, the louder the concerns about rampant incompetence in the West Wing.