A MAGA betrayal is heating up and now "young GOP leaders are fighting like rats in a sack over the alleged betrayal of one of their own," according to media reports.
Trump-appointed official Gavin Wax reportedly turned on his allies in the Young Republicans, allegedly obtaining the recent racist texts and leaking them after a feud over a photo opportunity with President Donald Trump, reported The Daily Beast.
Wax, who is the chief of staff in the Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the State Department, is now experiencing the fallout after the Politico report earlier this week detailing the Young Republican leaders' Telegram chats that included racist, antisemitic and homophobic comments, rape fantasies, and suggestions on how to drive their opponents to suicide.
"Multiple sources with knowledge of the matter told the Daily Beast that the 31-year-old obtained and leaked the messages to settle a longstanding feud with Peter Giunta, the former chair of the New York State Republican Club, who was implicated in the report," The Beast reported.
The two former friends apparently had a rocky moment in May 2024 over a photo opportunity with Trump during a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey. Sources told The Beast that Wax, former president of the New York Young Republican Club, was left out of a photo with Trump in "a miscommunication" and allegedly blamed Guinta for the mixup.
"It wasn’t until this year — while Giunta was running on a pro-Trump slate to lead the Young Republican National Federation — that he discovered Wax had never fully recovered from the incident, and was allegedly enacting revenge through support for Giunta’s opponent, Hayden Padgett," The Beast reported.
Guinta has publicly blamed Wax for the leak, but Wax has denied any involvement.
“It’s just stupidity at this point,” a source told The Beast. “It’s a race, a race to see who destroys who first. And it’s just really disgusting.”