A failed Donald Trump administration appointee to the Department of Homeland Security, whose nomination to head up the Office of Special Counsel was scuttled due to his well-documented racist past, ended up with a lesser job at the General Services Administration, where he has been greeted with nothing but loathing, reports Politico.
Paul Ingrassia, who has admitted he has a “Nazi streak,” was at the center of a firestorm after his OSC nomination, where GOP lawmakers made it clear he would not be approved. He then withdrew from consideration.
He was then shunted off to the GSA to the dismay of his future co-workers, one of whom complained, “What are we? A halfway house for bigots who can’t find jobs anywhere else in this administration?”
According to the Politico report, Ingrassia has not been welcomed with open arms and, despite being elevated to acting general counsel, the leadership of the agency is not entrusting him with anything important.
As one GSA official explained, the Trump ally, “basically won’t be given anything meaningful because [agency] leadership doesn’t really want him.”
“I don’t know what he is or is not, but no one cares for him,” another added.
The report adds that White House staffers were relieved they were able to find a department where he could be unloaded after his legal counsel nomination crashed and burned.
“Not sure anyone is like heartbroken,” one insider admitted. “It was never expected that it would go through, at least I never did.”
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