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Trump Selfie Snub Triggered MAGA Civil War That Leaked Racist Young Republican Chat - So many faces eaten (www.thedailybeast.com)
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A Donald Trump-appointed official accused of leaking hundreds of racist, private text messages sent by the party’s youngest leaders is believed to have acted after a major bust-up over a photo-op with the president.

Wax, the former president of the New York Young Republican Club, is under fire despite not being in the chat at all. Multiple sources with knowledge of the matter told the Daily Beast that the 31-year-old obtained and leaked the messages to settle a longstanding feud with Peter Giunta, the former chair of the New York State Republican Club, who was implicated in the report.

Sources close to Giunta told the Daily Beast that “a miscommunication” resulted in Wax being left out of the photo with Trump, for which he blamed Giunta, 31.

It wasn’t until this year—while Giunta was running on a pro-Trump slate to lead the Young Republican National Federation—that he discovered Wax had never fully recovered from the incident, and was allegedly enacting revenge through support for Giunta’s opponent, Hayden Padgett.

“It’s just stupidity at this point,” the source said. “It’s a race, a race to see who destroys who first. And it’s just really disgusting.”

But those close to Wax, who declined to comment for this story, vehemently denied he was the leaker and insisted he was made the fall guy because of his feud with Giunta.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There’s really no way to wholly prove anything of that sort as a layperson, so I won’t bother speculating on it. If the chats appear even slightly peculiar, as though rendered elsewhere, you might have something to point to, but I haven’t even looked at the actual leak. Start there, if you want to investigate. Shooting an email to the journalist that broke the story might be useful

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

That's why I mention it here, there are a shit ton of journalists that check in on Lemmy. If they feel like looking into it, they will.