How much stranger can this mis-administration presently in office get? Because I must say, many’s the articles I have read about disenchanted and disgruntled nominees for one or anoher position in Trump world, but if there’s been a story where Mom comes down to the House of Representatives and starts challenging the Representatives’ right to lock their own damn office doors, it has escaped my notice. This is a howler, what you are about to read. Paul Ingrassia is 30-years-old but this has all the ambiance of a parent-teacher meeting in grade school. Sheesh.
When she arrived at Raskin’s office — which was locked during the day due to threats Raskin receives — Donna began knocking. When staff opened the doors, she said, “You may have heard of my son, Paul,” and demanded a meeting with Raskin, a source familiar with the encounter told NOTUS.
She then pressed staff about why the door was locked. Staff informed her the door was locked because of threats that Raskin receives. Donna responded, “What kind of threats?” the source told NOTUS.
What kind of threats do you think, Madam? Threats to steal the congressman’s candy jar, maybe? No, threats like in, “I’ll blow your head off Jew-boy,” threats. Raskin is high up there on Trump’s personal shitlist, always has been. Frankly, I’m just waiting until Trump persecutes and prosecutes a few more people on his list (probably Adam Schiff is next, currently they’re messing around with some mortgage fraud allegations) before he gets around to Raskin. But let’s go back to Ingrassia’s mommy, who is conveniently named “Donna” as in Prima.
The same day, Donna also sought out Garcia. She showed up to Garcia’s personal office and similarly demanded a meeting with the congressman, a second source familiar with the matter told NOTUS. Donna told staff that Garcia had said “disparaging things” about her son, and she wanted to make sure she “could give him a piece of my mind.”
Garcia’s staff gave her the same answer, that the congressman was not in Washington because the House was on recess, to which she responded with what the source described as a “sarcastic” comment, handed over a business card and left.
When reached for comment via text message, Donna admitted that she “visited both and requested a meeting and they never called me.”
“If dialogue is one sided and no one listens to one another, without communication, how in the world can anything be accomplished?” she added. “People hate and they do mot even know why they hate. Pride,, jealousy, wrath, greed, sloth, envy. Deadly sins. Thank you for considering my thoughts.”
She also defended her son.
“Paul is a strong, unwavering Catholic who is a staunch supporter of President Trump and his agenda,” she told NOTUS. “This is an effort to muddy and derail the best candidate for the job. Schumer is a hypocrite, phony, and against President Trump and his agenda. Schumer is largely responsible for the continued shut down of the Federal Government.”
When NOTUS followed up to ask about the House visits specifically, she continued to express support for her son.
“Paul has a lot of congressional and senatorial support,” she said. “He has tremendous support from Jewish leaders, and the Catholic community. Paul is articulate, intelligent, and wise beyond his years. He has strong family support and leads a life of faith, integrity and virtue. Very loyal.”
That’s what you say, Mom. But John Thune, the Senate Majority leader, was quoted as saying, “He doesn’t have the votes” and I’ve got to believe Thune knows more about what’s happening in the Senate than some realtor apparently living vicariously through her son. What’s interesting there, is the way she describes the man and the way he describes himself are two different things.
Paul Ingrassia, Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee federal whistleblower protections, has dropped out after racist text messages he sent surfaced this week.
Ingrassia, currently a White House liaison at the Department of Homeland Security, was the subject of a report on Monday published in Politico. The report featured text messages where he allegedly described himself as having “a Nazi streak” and suggested Martin Luther King Jr Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell”.
In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday evening, Ingrassia said: “I will be withdrawing myself from Thursday’s HSGAC hearing to lead the Office of Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time.
“I appreciate the overwhelming support that I have received throughout this process and will continue to serve President Trump and this administration to Make America Great Again!
After the release of the alleged text messages earlier this week, reporters asked John Thune, the Senate majority leader, if the administration should pull Ingrassia’s nomination to lead the office of special counsel. Thune said on Monday: “I think so. He’s not going to pass.”
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin also said on Tuesday, prior to Ingrassia’s withdrawal, that he would not support Ingrassia’s nomination: “I’m a no. It never should have got this far. They ought to pull the nomination.”
You want to know what kills his nomination for me? The guy was admitted to the New York bar last year. He’s been practicing law ONE freaking YEAR — so he’s a total rookie novice, but he was going to lead a watchdog agency, that is typically helmed by non-partisan lawyers with decades of experience? And he’s got ONE YEAR?
Color me stupified. Scuse me, now, I’ve got to pick my jaw off the floor. And of course this is what Trump said.
Trump just nominated Paul Ingrassia to run the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia is a former far-right podcast host and election denier who once shared an article calling for “martial law” to keep Donald Trump in office following his loss in the 2020 election. He's 29. pic.twitter.com/breTlh7Rn5
— Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) May 29, 2025
I am dazzled that somebody can achieve the status of “highly respected attorney, writer and constitutional scholar” in their first year of law practice. Damn. Most first-year lawyers are summarizing depositions all day and night or answering form interrogatories, but Ingrassia soared with the eagles in just 365 days.
And lookey here. It gets worse. Ingrassia wasn’t even a lawyer at all when he represented Andrew Tate.
Numerous outlets reported that Paul Ingrassia represented Andrew and Tristan Tate in a civil suit in Florida in July 2023, based on a press release from the law firm he worked for, which called him an “Associate Attorney.”
But the announcement ran a week before he even sat for the bar exam and a full year before he was admitted to practice law in the state of New York.
When McBride Law Firm in New York City filed a defamation suit on behalf of the Tate brothers against an alleged victim in July 2023, the firm released a statement featuring blurbs about its team representing the notorious duo.
ngrassia was listed as an “associate attorney” with McBride and was “assigned to work on the Tate Brothers’ civil case several months ago.”
Weeks before filing the suit, McBride and Ingrassia flew to Romania to facilitate Tucker Carlson’s interview with the Tate brothers.
“Headed to Romania with McBride Law Associate Attorney—@PaulIngrassia on an epic business trip,” Joseph McBride posted on X on June 28, 2023.
While McBride was touting the credentials on public channels, Ingrassia also said he was an attorney.
As early as May 16, 2023, months before he took the bar exam, Ingrassia referred to himself as “an Associate Attorney at The McBride Law Firm, PLLC” on his personal Substack. But his bio on the site frequently changed. In a July 2023 piece on Tate, he described himself simply as an “associate” at the firm. In August, he referred to himself as a “law clerk.”
New York state records show that Ingrassia, a 2022 graduate of Cornell Law, took the bar on July 25-26, 2023, under his given name, Paolo Ingrassia.
While Ingrassia received his results in October 2023, he was not admitted to the New York State Bar until July 30, 2024.
According to New York state law, it is illegal for anyone to “hold himself or herself out to the public as being entitled to practice law” or to “advertise the title of lawyer” in a way that makes the public believe they are licensed to practice. […]
“I actually had an attorney give me a stern warning because I received business cards with ‘Esq.’ after my name the literal day before I was admitted,” one New York employment lawyer said.
That’s how it works in the real world. You can say you are a J.D. (Doctor of Jurisprudence) if you’re a law school graduate, but you cannot say you’re a lawyer unless you are licensed somewhere. If you want to say you’re an unbarred or non-practicing lawyer, that’s skating into a grey area. Just say you have a law degree. You can never get in trouble doing that as long as you’ve got the diploma. Technically, you are an Attorney In Fact with the sheepskin but you are not an Attorney At Law until you have the bar card.
Plus there’s something really screwy about getting bar results in October, 2023 and not being admitted to practice until the following July, in 2024. That says without coming out and sayiing so that he flunked the bar exam and had to retake it. Which is fine. Many people do, especially a hard bar like New York or California. But you do not walk around calling yourself a lawyer.
So Trump wanted to send somebody this wet behind the ears to run the Office Of Special Counsel? OMFG. And then his mother went down to bitch out Raskin and Garcia for being less than wildly enthusastic about this shyster? Aye aye aye.
But let’s rejoice. The Trump mis-administration is filled with fraudsters but at least we dodged the bullet on this one. You take your victories where you find them.
Apparently, Thune has his number, so he won’t be let in. But, geezo-cripe, polite practice is to call in advance and request someone’s time, whether it be a congressman or a nextdoor neighbor.
After (just barely) proving complete loyalty to Trumpty by begging him to allow their lips to be sewn to the Turd God Orange Emperor’s fat ass the most important qualification he insists upon is LACK of qualifications. And morality.