EXCLUSIVE 'I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat

[demmiblue]

Source: Politico

NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

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Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T18:44:52.590Z

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— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T18:45:02.876Z

[SWBTATTReg]

1. And these thugs are our future leaders? I'd say that they are in for an unpleasant surprise...

[Irish_Dem]

33. Or WE are in for a very unpleasant surprise. :(

[LW1977]

2. Disgusting..

These brats need a good ass whooping

[Lovie777]

3. GQP claim alliance with Israel......

and many American Jews.

GQP are dangerous.

[sarisataka]

12. Should we be afraid of Jews?

[Jilly_in_VA]

20. No, but

maybe we should be afraid of RepubliKKKans. They scare me a lot recently.

[sarisataka]

28. I agree with that

However, the post I replied to seemed to indicate alliances with Israel and Jews is something to be concerned about

[AZJonnie]

34. Not sure why you read it like that?

"GQP claim alliance with Israel......and many American Jews."

I took that to mean that the GQP *acts* like they're friends of both Israel and American Jews, but they really are not based on these messages.

Hence my voting "it doesn't break the rule".

[sarisataka]

35. You skipped the last line

“GQP are dangerous”

There was no mention of any antisemitism. Also it is often pointed out the similarities and closeness of Trump and Netanyahu. So I read the entirety of the post as an associative relationship.

The poster is free to correct me if I misunderstand their statement.

[AZJonnie]

37. Ah. I guess I can see how it could be read that way now that you spell it out for me :)

The context of the OP is antisemitism writ large so I perceived the post in question as calling out the GQP for as being dangerous in the sense of being disingenuous/not to be trusted (particularly by Jewish folks), wherein 'claim' is kind of the operative word in the sentence. I guess they can clarify if they want

[John1956PA]

4. Before these punks were born, there was published a book titled . . .

. . . "What's the Matter with Kansas?"

That question still warrants asking.

[LeftinOH]

5. Incoming excuse: "we were just joking around..lol!"

offer what-about-isms, and of course "

[Klarkashton]

6. You read their minds.

[Lovie777]

7. You know them so well.......🧐

[Grokenstein]

17. Pete Giunta's already on it

One of the biggest figures in the revelations, Giunta's gone with the insincere apology/witch hunt/fake news/hacked account combo.

Giunta claimed the release of the chat is part of “a highly-coordinated year-long character assassination led by Gavin Wax and the New York City Young Republican Club” — an allusion to a once obscured internecine war that has now spilled into the open.

“These logs were sourced by way of extortion and provided to POLITICO by the very same people conspiring against me,” he said. “What’s most disheartening is that, despite my unwavering support of President Trump since 2016, rouge [sic] members of his administration — including Gavin Wax — have participated in this conspiracy to ruin me publicly simply because I challenged them privately.”

“I am so sorry to those offended by the insensitive and inexcusable language found within the more than 28,000 messages of a private group chat that I created during my campaign to lead the Young Republicans,” he said. “While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and am deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored.”

[MarineCombatEngineer]

39. JD Vance, AKA couch fucker, has already done that.

"we were just joking around..lol!"
offer what-about-isms, and of course "

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jd-vance-blasted-for-response-to-young-republicans-group-chat/ar-AA1OuTvb?ocid=BingNewsSerp

JD Vance blasted for response to Young Republicans group chat

Vance posted on X an excerpt from one of messages attributed to Jones which read: “only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

“This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence,” Vance said.

[RussBLib]

8. Let's circulate this far and wide

We already knew they were little Nazis.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[3825-87867]

9. They are acting just as things now are around the Off-White House...

the excuse? Just locker room talk - if anyone remembers that excuse. And that, according them, makes it ok. Great republicant parents, by the way, if they condone this. Maybe some of us should let them know even though they probably feel the same as their good-for-nothing offspring.

[Harker]

10. One can be a 40-year-old member of the "Young Republican National Federation"?

Sounds like par for the course.

[BattleRow]

31. Like Newt Gingrich's "youthful" indiscretions

[Cattledog]

11. 2,900 pages of messages.

[cstanleytech]

13. Not surprised at all.

[sarisataka]

14. Can't say I'm shocked

When I saw Young Republicans on campus they always looked like cultists

[blm]

15. Please spread this to social media sites like FB, if you can

[LuvLoogie]

19. I did earlier this morning.

[BidenRocks]

16. Along with Kirks anti semitic garbage...

[maxrandb]

21. Paging the media that has been obsessed with "violent" political rhetoric

What's that I hear? Crickets?

The DNC ought to drop some adds highlighting these texts IN EVERY FUCKING STATE and EVERY FUCKING ELECTION from Governor to Dogcatcher to County Coroner...NOW!!!!

[electric_blue68]

22. Disgusting to outright monsterous comments.

[mcar]

23. And they wonder why they can't get a date

[KS Toronado]

24. So the right complains about antifa daily but loves Hitler?

Now we know why, they're FASCISTS!

[Picaro]

25. Nihilistic fascists

[Montauk6]

26. "But BOTH SIDES," right? GTFOH!

[sop]

27. Nazism is alive and well in America.

[Zorro]

30. The Young Republicans apparently think being an American Nazi is "cool"

[Wednesdays]

29. So...Tuesday in Republican land. nt

[GiqueCee]

32. And where, pray tell...

... do you suppose these impressionable young bullies and bigots learn such repugnant behavior? Why, from Mummy and Daddy, of course! And they, in turn, were quietly indoctrinated – a favorite Kkkonservative accusation – by the Elder Racists and Malevolent Thugs of the Grand Old Party.
And people chide me when I say that my hatred of the Republican Party burns hotter than the surface of the Sun. They are the same people who want to canonize Charlie Kirk, the consummate racist, bigot, and antisemitic pig.

[Wonder Why]

36. I love this statement:

Walker, who now leads the New York State Young Republicans, touched on a similar theme, saying that he believes portions of the chat “may have been altered, taken out of context, or otherwise manipulated” and that the “private exchanges were obtained and released in a way clearly intended to inflict harm.”

The Bold emphasis is mine.

Taken out of context? That's interesting. what context was intended by blatantly hate-mongering and racist remarks?

Clearly intended to inflict harm? You mean those statements were meant to be shared only by those that believed in them but were not meant to create any harm so the only harm came because the truth of their bigotry and hatred became public?

Disgusting example of what is supposed to be a human being, are you" as Yoda would say.

[Kid Berwyn]

38. Sponges of evil.

Send them to re-education camp for resets.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Is anyone really surprised?