Former President Donald Trump has nominated Paul Ingrassia, a former far-right podcast host, to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), an independent federal agency established after the Watergate scandal. The nomination comes after Trump’s dismissal of the previous OSC head, Hampton Dellinger, who was removed just one year into his five-year term.
According to MSNBC, Ingrassia has been practicing law for only three years and previously worked at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank that claims to be “working to undermine the Left’s hold over America’s institutions and conscience.” During Trump’s term, he served as the president’s liaison to the Justice Department, where he described himself as Trump’s “eyes and ears.”
