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LiberalArkie

(19,058 posts)
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:26 AM Saturday

Trump Official Leaked 'Nazi' GOP Chat After Being Left Out of Photo With the President

October 17, 2025 11:00 am

What do a Nazi meme dump, a Trump rally selfie, and a Republican meltdown have in common? Apparently, everything.

A Trump-appointed State Department official is now at the center of a brutal political implosion inside the GOP’s youngest ranks—allegedly triggered by a petty grudge over being left out of a photo-op with Donald Trump.


Gavin Wax, the former president of the New York Young Republican Club and now chief of staff in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy, is being accused of leaking hundreds of racist, misogynistic, and flat-out vile messages from a private Telegram group chat of “Young Republican” leaders. The leak exposed 251 slurs, including the N-word, F-slur, and straight-up fascist propaganda like “I love Hitler.”

But here’s the twist: Wax wasn’t even in the chat.

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https://dailyboulder.com/trump-official-leaked-nazi-gop-chat-after-being-left-out-of-photo-with-the-president/

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Trump Official Leaked 'Nazi' GOP Chat After Being Left Out of Photo With the President (Original Post) LiberalArkie Saturday OP
"the GOP's youngest ranks" Prairie Gates Saturday #1
To the rethug politicians, that is practically a child. OldBaldy1701E Saturday #10
So the idea iimplied is that kids will be kids. ananda Saturday #17
Well, they are truly deluded. That is why they appeal to the fringe elements in our society. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Saturday #36
The whole GOP plan includes hatcheries. NameAlreadyTaken Saturday #16
Fu*k! The media treats Donnie Dipshit maxrandb Saturday #24
They've been groomed Champp Saturday #27
"I Believe the Children Are Our Future" JoseBalow Saturday #40
Holy crapola UpInArms Saturday #2
No doubt carolying levitt will address this matter BOSSHOG Saturday #5
Whoa, so what "stupid things" PatSeg Saturday #19
Maybe he "couched" his sentiments a little more discreetly. BattleRow Saturday #37
Ha, ha, ha! PatSeg Saturday #39
TY! BattleRow Saturday #42
They are Rebl2 Saturday #23
"the stupid things that I did as a teenager" Dave Bowman Saturday #25
He even looks angry. I am sure someone will doxx him. COL Mustard Saturday #35
An invitation? ificandream Saturday #49
"more enraged about the leak than the horrifying contents of the messages themselves" pat_k Sunday #56
When childish a**holes take over a political party, stuff like that will happen. tanyev Saturday #3
Their leader is exactly like this Henry203 Saturday #4
They are imploding....................... Lovie777 Saturday #6
Has dumpie fired Gavin Wax yet? KS Toronado Saturday #7
. dalton99a Saturday #8
"Diplomacy"? haele Saturday #41
See Ya! BidenRocks Saturday #54
+1. The Trump Nazi just made a lot of lifelong friends. dalton99a Saturday #55
Of course he wasn't in the chat ToxMarz Saturday #9
It's good to see the GOP is looking into it JohnnyRingo Saturday #11
This is how pedo Trump operates Farmer-Rick Saturday #12
What a petty little bitch. intheflow Saturday #13
The sheer petty vindictiveness of it HuskyOffset Saturday #14
I wonder how many other "young" republican chat groups are engaged in the same vile behavior. patphil Saturday #15
To quote the kid in Terminator 2 when asked how many police there were, "Ahhh, all of them, I think." JHB Saturday #34
I agree. Typical republicans all. patphil Saturday #51
Well, trump set the stage for "retribution"!!! Taking their own medicine BComplex Saturday #18
Light is the best disinfectant. These people, if we were a sane, intelligent country, would never get more than AZLD4Candidate Saturday #20
They are every bully 3rd grade on up mountain grammy Saturday #21
Trump was able to capture the Republican Party precisely because of his racism, sexism, and juvenile insults Martin Eden Saturday #22
I believe he just inherited the Moral Majority LiberalArkie Saturday #32
It makes sense that the most immoral POtuS ever to poison the soul of America Martin Eden Saturday #50
This oost should be incorporated into speeches Gum Logger Saturday #33
The integrity, honesty, and nobility of the G.O.P. Champp Saturday #26
There is no honor among thieves. GoCubsGo Saturday #28
Get the popcorn..the snake has begun to consume its own tail... BattleRow Saturday #38
They're so petty and juvenile about everything ChicagoTeamster Saturday #29
That kind of pettiness is hilarious nycbos Saturday #30
They have egos, don't they? /nt bucolic_frolic Saturday #31
Totally On-Brand. Goes with eating their young. BurnDoubt Saturday #43
Raised by parents who're raised on Reagan. Kid Berwyn Saturday #44
Reagan is now a "RINO" in today's magat Republican nazi-terrorist criminal organization...... Jack Valentino Saturday #46
Magats turning against Magats---- gotta LOVE IT! Jack Valentino Saturday #45
He looks like a Gavin Wax DET Saturday #47
The best and the brightest, he says ... ificandream Saturday #48
Evil fuckers Sugarcoated Saturday #52
A case of bortaS bIr jablu'DI', reH QaQqu' nay'.? cstanleytech Saturday #53
Remember when trump spoke that way? luvallpeeps Sunday #57

OldBaldy1701E

(9,357 posts)
10. To the rethug politicians, that is practically a child.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:40 AM
Saturday

Except when it comes to their personal gratification... then... well...

OldBaldy1701E

(9,357 posts)
36. Well, they are truly deluded. That is why they appeal to the fringe elements in our society. (n/t)
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 02:37 PM
Saturday

maxrandb

(16,931 posts)
24. Fu*k! The media treats Donnie Dipshit
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:44 AM
Saturday

as if the deplorable, racist, misogynistic, violent and vile shit he says and does, is because of "youthful indiscretion" and he's almost fucking 80!

You expected something different here?

Champp

(2,372 posts)
27. They've been groomed
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:56 AM
Saturday

by the Big Beefy Bros to whom they have willingly surrendered their basic human decency

UpInArms

(53,569 posts)
2. Holy crapola
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:40 AM
Saturday

The more you read the article, the worse it gets ….

The rot in the Republican Party is broad and wide, with no end other than its demise

Still, amid the finger-pointing, it’s clear some Republicans are more enraged about the leak than the horrifying contents of the messages themselves.

When Kansas gubernatorial candidate Vicki Schmidt called on two state Young Republican leaders to resign over their racist comments revealed in the leak, she was viciously attacked online. Aidan, Giunta’s ally, told her: “Have fun being another stupid b**ch that ran for governor and lost.”

The Young Republican National Federation, with 15,000 members nationwide, issued a statement condemning the chat’s contents and calling for resignations. But not everyone in the party agreed.

Enter JD Vance.

The vice president refused to denounce the slurs. Instead, he defended the leakers’ victims.

“I refuse to join the pearl clutching,” Vance wrote on X. “Most of… the stupid things that I did as a teenager and as a young adult, they’re not on the internet.”

Both Giunta and Wax are 31.

BOSSHOG

(43,885 posts)
5. No doubt carolying levitt will address this matter
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:56 AM
Saturday

In a professional, polite matter righting the course for Americana with her best Your Momma Yet.

PatSeg

(51,226 posts)
19. Whoa, so what "stupid things"
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:02 AM
Saturday

did Vance do as a teenager and young adult? Were they racist and sexist? It appears he is identifying with these "young lads" and is admitting that HE is racist and sexist as well. Of course, there's no surprise in that.

Rebl2

(17,113 posts)
23. They are
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:28 AM
Saturday

definitely not teens or young adults. So Vance was doing this kind of thing in his thirties?

Dave Bowman

(6,078 posts)
25. "the stupid things that I did as a teenager"
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:50 AM
Saturday

You're still doing it, Shady, which is frankly pathetic.

ificandream

(11,478 posts)
49. An invitation?
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 06:23 PM
Saturday

Vance wrote on X, “Most of… the stupid things that I did as a teenager and as a young adult, they’re not on the internet.”

I hope someone is hunting for them.

pat_k

(12,111 posts)
56. "more enraged about the leak than the horrifying contents of the messages themselves"
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 12:46 AM
Sunday

They are never upset about Republicans who commit crimes -- only Republicans who get caught.

It is a corollary to the Republican belief that you've done nothing wrong if you don't get caught.

And when it comes to hate speech, from their POV, what's to be upset about?

Like the man who shot Charlie Kirk, these "kids" (20 to 30 yo men) who live online are so messed up in layers of irony and "jokes" that they no longer have a clue what they hell they actually think about anything.

tanyev

(48,121 posts)
3. When childish a**holes take over a political party, stuff like that will happen.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:40 AM
Saturday

The hope is that they will destroy themselves before they can destroy the country. 🤞

Henry203

(771 posts)
4. Their leader is exactly like this
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:48 AM
Saturday

And his name is Trump. Everything these people do is how Trump acts at all times.

KS Toronado

(21,627 posts)
7. Has dumpie fired Gavin Wax yet?
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:08 AM
Saturday

And how long before the DOJ finds something to charge him with? Something like he
wasn't LOYAL ENOUGH, Hitler did it so will dumpie.

haele

(14,767 posts)
41. "Diplomacy"?
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 04:29 PM
Saturday

Typical Dudebro emotionally stuck in his HS Senior Peak who, now that he's out of college and making enough to maybe have a house and spouse" sits in his Man Cave playing shootem'ups when he's not at the office sucking down Starbucks and looking important on TEAMs....

ToxMarz

(2,584 posts)
9. Of course he wasn't in the chat
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:37 AM
Saturday

Or he wouldn't have leaked it. Just like everyone fighting to release the Epstein files isn't in those either.

JohnnyRingo

(20,234 posts)
11. It's good to see the GOP is looking into it
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:42 AM
Saturday

...Not the blatant racism and hate among their ranks, but who squealed on them. hahaha

Not denying it, not defending or condemning it, but who told on them. Indeed, heads will roll.

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Farmer-Rick

(12,171 posts)
12. This is how pedo Trump operates
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:47 AM
Saturday

He gets his sycophants to fight each other. He does it with his children and wives...at least the ones that are still alive...all the time. He likes seeing them unhappy and fighting among themselves. It's what he did at all his businesses. When he golfs he has everyone infighting while his caddies and partners cheat for him. Then they fight among themselves about it.

It's so surprising so many fools fall for it.

intheflow

(29,819 posts)
13. What a petty little bitch.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:49 AM
Saturday

In this case, tho, I approve of his pettiness because it both exposed the group and also seems to be coming home to roost for him.

HuskyOffset

(924 posts)
14. The sheer petty vindictiveness of it
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:55 AM
Saturday

The sheer petty vindictiveness of it is the delicious cherry on top.

patphil

(8,391 posts)
15. I wonder how many other "young" republican chat groups are engaged in the same vile behavior.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:56 AM
Saturday

JHB

(37,845 posts)
34. To quote the kid in Terminator 2 when asked how many police there were, "Ahhh, all of them, I think."
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 01:37 PM
Saturday

That chat was just the tippy-top of the tip of the iceberg.

BComplex

(9,646 posts)
18. Well, trump set the stage for "retribution"!!! Taking their own medicine
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:01 AM
Saturday

suits the occasion! If they're all about retribution, they're in bigly troubly! Life is a boomerang! What goes around comes around!

AZLD4Candidate

(6,701 posts)
20. Light is the best disinfectant. These people, if we were a sane, intelligent country, would never get more than
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:07 AM
Saturday

10% of the vote nationwide.

No wonder we have a lousy reputation internationally. . .and I know this after living internationally for 20 years. Because of these Yankee Doodle dingbats.

mountain grammy

(28,347 posts)
21. They are every bully 3rd grade on up
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:17 AM
Saturday

most at the 3rd grade level..too mean and mad to be embarrassed.. also they believe they're right and they pray so it's all good.

Martin Eden

(15,037 posts)
22. Trump was able to capture the Republican Party precisely because of his racism, sexism, and juvenile insults
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:18 AM
Saturday

He beat all contenders in the 2016 primary by breaking norms and crossing boundaries which had maintained the facade of decorum that was already deteriorating with the despicable rhetoric of Gingrich and the thinly veiled racism of the Tea Party.

Donald Trump is a verified pathological liar, but his MAGA cult believes he "tells it like it is" because he speaks directly to their bigotry, fear, and grievance. His rhetoric liberated the expression of vile hatred formerly suppressed by political correctness, and they adore him for it.

The rise of internet trolls like Marjorie Taylor Greene to the US Congress shows that competition in "conservative" politics largely consists of pushing the boundaries of un-civil discourse to garner attention and applause from an increasingly deplorable voting base.

So it should come as no surprise that the private chat among young Republicans entering government ranks and aspiring to leadership is full of the shockingly vile racism and genocidal joy recently revealed.

Or that JD Vance, who could very well become president before long, expressed indignation that they were subjected to such harsh public reprimand for nothing more than youthful indiscretion (though they were of adult age, not teens).

This is where the toxic poison of Trumpism is leading us. The next generation is being groomed to be even worse. American fascism will not automatically die with Donald Trump. The proverbial frog is still in a pot of water slowly being brought to a boil.

But the inflatable frog costumes provide a reason for hope. The MAGA base may be getting more deplorable, but it's shrinking. Most folks are reasonably decent, and not too blind to see what's going on.

Today is an important day for the survival of American democracy -- and it won't be the last. We The People must be the champions of our own freedom, and NEVER give up being actively vigilant.

Martin Eden

(15,037 posts)
50. It makes sense that the most immoral POtuS ever to poison the soul of America
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 06:42 PM
Saturday

Would inherit the voting block of hymn singing hypocrites who believe their holier-than-thou high horse has earned them a ticket to heaven -- and a license for cruelty and greed.

Well, to hell with them and the horse they rode in on. They're free to worship any god or golden calf they want -- but good citizens and true patriots have to draw the line when our Constitutional democracy and rule of law are being dismantled by the morally depraved megalomanical convicted felon they voted for.

GoCubsGo

(34,482 posts)
28. There is no honor among thieves.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:59 AM
Saturday

Eventually, they start going at each other's throats, and it's only going to get worse from here on out. And, when Dear Leader finally kicks off...Hoo boy!!!!

ChicagoTeamster

(62 posts)
29. They're so petty and juvenile about everything
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:59 AM
Saturday

These are the people who were made fun of in kindergarten because they ate paste and/or pooped in their pants. It's their vindictive mindset that follows Trump through all of these spiteful policy decisions.

Jack Valentino

(3,703 posts)
46. Reagan is now a "RINO" in today's magat Republican nazi-terrorist criminal organization......
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 05:38 PM
Saturday

I won't call them a 'party' anymore


Jack Valentino

(3,703 posts)
45. Magats turning against Magats---- gotta LOVE IT!
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 05:36 PM
Saturday

Meanwhile in that chat, the "boys being boys"
were all competing to be 'the bigger Nazi' !
(or KKK/Nazi)


I see 2028 Democratic campaign ads being created out of this...
(and 2026, for that matter)

DET

(2,270 posts)
47. He looks like a Gavin Wax
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 06:09 PM
Saturday

And his girlfriend/wife looks like a chubby version of Erica Kirk.

luvallpeeps

(1,255 posts)
57. Remember when trump spoke that way?
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 06:11 AM
Sunday

“Grab ‘em by the pussy”, it was locker room talk. Even Melania covered for him. They excuse their own vile behavior every time. Oh those family values.

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