Scary monsters, super creeps
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I think Max’s takeaway about how Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel cancelled the hotel room of a younger female colleague so she would be forced to stay with him is exactly correct:
He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.
[image or embed]— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) Oct 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And needless to say, he is unqualified on multiple other levels as well:
The fallout from the incident has been the talk of the upper echelons of DHS ever since. It adds to a swirl of controversy surrounding Ingrassia, a 30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination claims. Ingrassia would be two decades younger and less experienced than recent leaders of the agency.
Ingrassia’s nomination is already on the rocks after Republican senators raised concerns about his background and amount of experience, as well as possible antisemitism, which the administration has disputed.
When a nominee who is in the president’s mould is unqualified by any normal standard it’s a pretty serious problem!