Trump pick to run federal watchdog: A 30-year-old who once shared a 9/11 conspiracy video and has ties to a Holocaust denier

The man President Donald Trump wants to put in charge of protecting whistleblowers – and rooting out government corruption – is a 30-year-old lawyer with barely a year of government experience and a history of racist invective, conspiratorial rants, and affinity for a well-known White nationalist and Holocaust denier.

Paul Ingrassia, whom Trump nominated in late May to lead the Office of Special Counsel, brands himself as “President Trump’s favorite writer” after Trump shared his comments close to 100 times last year on social media.

Admitted to the bar only last summer, Ingrassia, 30, held a brief White House internship during Trump’s first term. This year, Ingrassia first worked as a White House liaison at the Justice Department before reportedly being pushed out and reassigned to the Department of Homeland Security, where he helps with staffing the agency.