Posted on 07/09/2025 10:31:44 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Last week, following a request to defend the controversial senior federal watchdog appointee Paul Ingrassia, the Trump administration told CNN that he had the “support of many Jewish groups.”
But after CNN reached out to the Jewish groups mentioned in the administration’s response, many said that they had never heard of him.
Ingrassia, a 30-year-old lawyer, was nominated for the new senior role as head of the United States Office of Special Counsel in May. He has since gathered scrutiny over his defense of the avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes and work with antisemitic influencer Andrew Tate.
In a since-deleted post on X in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Ingrassia wrote that “Israel/Palestine” was a “psyop” and that the United States should not admit Palestinian or Israeli refugees.
Given a chance to respond to a report by CNN last week about Ingrassia’s record of conspiratorial rhetoric, the Trump administration sent CNN a statement in which it alleged that the appointee had the support of “many Jewish groups.”
“He has the support of many Jewish groups and has been a steadfast advocate for Jewish causes and personnel during his time working for the Trump administration,” the statement read.
When pressed on where the support came from, the Trump administration pointed to the Zionist Organization of America, and a group they called “The Holocaust Council,” which CNN interpreted as referring to the board of trustees for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
But a spokesperson for Morton Klein, the president of ZOA, told CNN that Klein had never heard of Ingrassia and had not endorsed his nomination.
And the chair of the board of trustees for the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Stuart E. Eizenstat, said it could not have endorsed Ingrassia.
“The museum and the council do not take positions on nominees,” Eizenstat told CNN. “We’re a nonpolitical and nonpartisan organization.”
Trump recently removed members of the board who had been appointed by Democrats and replaced them with his own appointees. One of the new appointees, Siggy Flicker, whom Trump appointed in May, called Ingrassia an “antisemite” in a since-deleted Instagram post in June.
After the publication of CNN’s report on Ingrassia, the administration also claimed that the Israel Heritage Foundation and the Israel Defense and Security Forum had voiced support for Ingrassia, but both organizations initially told CNN that they had not endorsed him.
The Israel Heritage Foundation, a right-wing pro-Israel think tank, subsequently made an endorsement. “He’s a major supporter of Judaism,” the group’s executive president, Stephen Soloway, told CNN about Ingrassia. “He’s not an antisemite. I consider Paul a very good friend.”
The controversy over Ingrassia comes as the Trump administration has also received pushback from the House Jewish Caucus over the promotion of Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon press secretary accused of repeatedly posting antisemitic rhetoric online.
As for Ingrassia, I don't think that Israel is above criticism, but to label, as he did, the October 7 attacks as psyops is disgusting. His promotion of Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate further indicate his unworthiness for public office.
When people on the right have questionable views on Jews and Israel they always have the spotlight shone on them, but we have an entire political party in the Democrats filled with known Israel haters and vile antisemites. Deafening silence from CNN and the rest of the Democrat propaganda organs on them.
LOL. The Foward has ALWAYS been marxist.
yup- i’m wondering when they will release their endorsement of ayatollah mamdani for mayor of NYChitty....
Here’s Ingrassia under his own byline:
https://amac.us/newsline/society/a-new-dawn-for-american-justice/
Yes, definitely shoot the messenger.
As you say, LOL.
“yup- i’m wondering when they will release their endorsement of ayatollah mamdani for mayor of NYChitty....”
Who is “they” and what would that have to do with Ingrassia’s qualifications?
That’s great, but his curated, self-promotional comments do not present the full measure of the man.
they = The Forward....follow along....
Asking for a friend who attends protests at Columbia University.
Only when it advances marxism.
” which CNN interpreted as “
Why the need to interpret ?, was Trump not speaking English ?
No, interpret means they decided he said something else, namely their stawman fictious translated b.s.
Pfft .
Typical urinalist weaseling.
“the Trump administration sent CNN a statement in which it alleged that the appointee had the support of ‘many Jewish group.’”
1. There were no “many Jewish group[s].
2. The administration invented something called “The Holocaust Council.” CNN came up with the closest match.
And says CNN , documented proven bold face liars.
Mmmkay.
You must be one of the 3 people still watching and believing everything CNN analists drop out their rectums .
Must suck to be you .
It’s wonderful being me. And I haven’t watched CNN in well over a decade.
Keep exercising your cerebellum. You’ll get there one of these days.
You are no messenger.
You are a propagandist and disruptor.
Sometimes messages disrupt ignorance, so there’s that.
Ahhhhh
An academic then ?
So cerebral, I’m awed , really, I am.
If I believed a word of what you say .
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