India, Oct. 21 -- The newly-nominated lead for the Office of the Special Counsel in the Donald Trump administration, Paul Ingrassia, has come under fire over remarks he purportedly made in a Republican group chat. POLITICO published a report Monday with screenshots of the chat where Ingrassia reportedly said that the Martin Luther King Jr holiday should be abolished and that he has "a Nazi streak."

The report noted that the comments were made in a chain on texts on a group chat with "a group of fellow Republicans." It was not immediately clear who the other participants were, but POLITICO revealed that Paul Ingrassia allegedly made a series of controversial comments in the chat.

POLITICO noted in the report that two sources who were par...