@nvw0819@SaulStaniforth the area is NOT 80% Muslim, but even if it were, it would be reasonable not to allow a bunch of people who are violently racist against Muslims, to go in said area, knowing there's a high risk of this racist group of supporters assaulting and committing violence against locals
G.O.P. Senators Oppose Trump Watchdog Nominee After Report of Racist Texts
At least four Republican senators, including the Senate majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
The New York Times was unable to independently verify the text messages, which Politico said included telling a group of fellow Republicans that he had “a Nazi streak” and that the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell.”
A lawyer for Mr. Ingrassia did not confirm the texts were authentic and said they might have been manipulated or were missing context, Politico said.
The report of the messages adds to a swirl of controversy around both Mr. Ingrassia, a self-described “constitutional law” expert who hosted a far-right podcast with his sister, and Mr. Trump’s role in trying to bend the Office of Special Counsel to his will. It also comes just days after a separate Politico reportshowed that young Republican officeholders and activists had routinely used racist and homophobic language and glibly invoked Hitler and the Holocaust in a Telegram chat.
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@MohanadElbalal@BenKentish In any case the polling in Israel is very clear - it is a society in the grip of genocidal mania. It needs drastic deradicalisation but in the meantime we should not bring racist hooligans from that society on to our streets