California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a congressional investigation of antisemitic and racist comments were made in a Young Republicans group chat.
Oct. 15 California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday called for a congressional investigation of antisemitic and racist comments made in a Young Republicans group chat.
The 2,900 pages of messages posted on Telegram involved young Republicans in Arizona, Kansas, New York and Vermont, according to a Politico report, but did not include Californians.
One day after the report on messages praising Adolf Hitler and racial epithets from January to early August, Newsom formally requested in a letter that the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee open an investigation.
„Calling for gas chambers. Expressing love for Hitler. Endorsing rape. Using racist slurs. This is not a ‚joke‘, and it is not fringe“, Newsom said in the letter addressed to James Comer, a committee chairman serving a Kentucky House district.
„These are leaders within Republican National Committee-linked groups. If Congress can investigate universities for failing to stop antisemitism, it must also investigate politicians‘ own allies who are openly celebrating it.“
Newsom said some of the young Republicans have been „directly engaged in activities on college campuses — making the need for a full investigation even more urgent.
