Whatever horrific thing springs to the front of your mind when you hear about the Young Republican groups — I promise you, from the bottom of my heart, this is worse.
Leaders of Young Republican groups from coast to coast across this country wondered and worried about what would happen if the contents of their Telegram chats were ever to end up leaked to the public.
Now, they’re about to find out. The hard way.
BOMBSHELL new reporting just dropped from Politico, in which screenshots upon screenshots upon screenshots of Telegram conversations between members and leadership of Young Republican chapters across the United States were leaked, and, frankly, it’s so much worse than any of us could have ever prepared for.
Tucked away in their circle jerks and echo chambers, you’ll find some of the deepest, darkest, most nauseating obsessions the human mind can cook up.
The newly leaked screenshots show members referring to Black people as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people,” fantasizing about putting their political opponents in gas chambers, and even openly musing about raping their enemies and purposely driving them to suicide.
The chat screenshots prove that Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, William Hendrix, used multiple variations of the N-word more than a dozen times. Bobby Walker, who at the time was serving as the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans, used the word “epic” to describe rape.
Peter Giunta, who was serving as the chair of the Young Republicans group at the time of his June message, said that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber,” referring to an impending vote on whether he should serve as the chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, a GOP political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old that boasts approximately 15,000 members.
“I’m going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” Giunta said in the June messages.
Joe Maligno, who previously identified himself as the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, responded to Giunta’s message: “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic.”
New York’s national committeewoman, Annie Kaykaty, chimed in, “I’m ready to watch people burn now.”
This nauseating exchange is just one of many obtained by Politico in a literal trove of leaked messages, spanning more than 8 months, and implicating Young Republicans leaders from all over the country, including New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont, and offers the closest and most sickening look yet into what these people are truly like behind closed doors.
Now, they’re all left scrambling in desperate damage control mode.
The general theme of the 2,900 pages of chats, sent back and forth between a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, sheds a sharp and damning light on the groups’ inside campaign to seize control of the Young Republicans organization and implement a hard-line, pro-Trump MAGA agenda throughout the organization.
Inside this group, many members were already employed inside the US government, with one even serving as a US state senator.
The leak pulls back the curtain on what truly lies beneath the MAGA movement — a cancer of racism, antisemitism, violence, rape fantasies, and Hitler obsessions, all emboldened and bolstered by none other than President Donald J. Trump.
In the wake of the massive and brutal leak, many individuals implicated in the chats refused to comment publicly.
However, Giunta took the tactic he seemed to pull directly from Donald Trump’s playbook, and publicly stated that the leaked chats were part of a “highly-coordinated year-long character assassination led by Gavin Wax and the New York City Young Republican Club.”
“These logs were sourced by way of extortion and provided to POLITICO by the very same people conspiring against me,” Giunta asserted. “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.”
Wax, who is quite literally a staffer in Trump’s State Department now, formerly served as the leader of the New York Young Republican Club, a separate entity that has long been at odds with the state organization, the New York State Young Republicans.
Gavin Wax refused to publicly comment on the matter.
Despite his efforts to paint the leak as a politically motivated smear campaign, Giunta still offered up a lackluster non-apology, in which he openly questioned the legitimacy of the messages.
“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 stated. “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.”
One particular message shows Giunta stating, “Great. I love Hitler.”
The months’ worth of chats were chock full of countless slurs, including “f*ggot,” “Beaner,” “sp*c,” and references to “1488,” a slogan associated with Hitler.
At one point, the group even mused on what would happen if their chats were ever leaked, with Walker writing, “If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr.”
“Cooked” is an understatement.
You can find the full, spanning report from Politico here.
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Andrea is a full-time political reporter with more than 10 years of experience in the field. She serves as a writer for Liberal Agenda as well as the onwner and operator of The Resistance Report.
When she's not covering Trump's BS, you can find her mom-ing her feminist-in-training, trolling MAGA in her comments section, and behaving as an overall Menace to Society.
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