A high-stakes Senate confirmation hearing has been thrown into chaos after a series of leaked text messages allegedly show Donald Trump's nominee for a top government watchdog post making shockingly racist and antisemitic remarks.
Paul Ingrassia, Trump's controversial pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, is now facing a political firestorm over the alleged messages, in which he calls for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to be 'tossed into the seventh circle of hell' and claims to possess 'a Nazi streak.'
