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.
