But as the dust settled on the fiasco, there was one question that still needed an answer. When Trump chose Ingrassia for the OSC job, he was serving as the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security. Given the revelations about his record, would the president and his team show him the door or not?

Now we know. Politico reported:

Paul Ingrassia, a conservative activist who withdrew his nomination to oversee a government watchdog agency last month after POLITICO reported he made racist comments in a group chat, said Thursday he is moving to a new job in the administration. The 30-year-old lawyer had been serving since February as White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security. But in an email obtained by POLITICO, he told colleagues that he is leaving to become deputy general counsel at the General Services Administration.

....Let’s take stock. The president hired a right-wing lawyer with a record of extremism, then offered him a promotion. At that point, the right-wing lawyer’s record generated additional scrutiny, and the White House learned, among other things, about a message in which Ingrassia wrote, “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it.” This made him politically radioactive to Republicans on Capitol Hill.,,,,

In the wake of Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Nick Fuentes, there’s been an intensifying public conversation about the right’s antisemitism crisis. By any fair measure, the White House’s latest reward for Ingrassia makes that crisis worse.