Leaders of Young Republican groups allegedly called black people monkeys, gushed about their love of Hitler, and spoke graphically of raping their enemies and driving them to suicide, vile leaked messages show.
Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair William Hendrix, who is white, used variations of the n-word more than a dozen times in his messages on the private chat app Telegram, according the messages obtained by Politico.
Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, also described rape as “epic” in another abhorrent exchange, the texts show.
In a vicious rant in June, then-chair of New York’s Young Republicans, Peter Giunta, said everyone who didn’t vote for him to become chair of the group’s National Federation, would be “going to the gas chamber,” according to the report.
In yet another ugly exchange, Giunta reportedly said, “I love Hitler,” in response to a message from the chair of the Kansas Young Republicans.
He also branded an opponent from Maryland a “fat stinky Jew,” and called Arkansas young Republicans “inbred cow f–kers,” the leaked chats show.
Giunta also allegedly made several jokes about black people, including one in response to a question about whether he was watching an NBA playoff game.
“I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball,” Giunta responded, while elsewhere he reportedly referred to African Americans as “the watermelon people.”
The leak exposed some 2,900 pages of chats between about a dozen Young Republican group leaders from early January to mid-August this year.
At least one member of the group chat has since lost his job, while another had a job offer rescinded, Politico reported.
