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Leopards Ate My Face

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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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[–] oh_@lemmy.world 3 points 27 minutes ago

These were adults. Not young at all. Just not seniors like congress.

[–] Ibisalt@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

I might be out of the loop, but they use telegram? lol

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

These people don't even like each other, they're just united by hate, and they wanna "fix" the country? lolz.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Which can only end in failure because none of them are smart enough to work together.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 22 points 9 hours ago

"It’s just stupidity at this point,”

You've got that right.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 95 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

“It’s a race, a race to see who destroys who first. And it’s just really disgusting.”

Well, racists really are obsessed with races.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 8 points 13 hours ago

Well, except these particular racists were surely not interested in, let alone obsessed with running any physical races themselves, according to the pictures I've seen.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I guess Vance was right. These really are children.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone is 12, apparently.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm really getting on board with this theory, though 12 is very generous for some people.

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

I'm a middle school ESL teacher in the United States, and today I was talking with my supervisor about what the average US score would be on the test that my kids have to take every year. The conclusion was definitely that the majority of the United States would not pass the test to be deemed proficient in English.

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 52 points 13 hours ago

Fucking children

Both interpretations.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The funny part is that this group was in trouble for weeks after one of them stepped down amid allegations of not paying the bills.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook-pm/2025/09/26/peter-giunta-new-york-state-young-republicans-financials-00582743

Stiffing contractors, racism, infighting. It's basically Trump in a nutshell.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

You found another Leopard eating someone's face, lmao:

“He paid a deposit, and we never got the rest of the money, and we didn’t go after him because it’s a shame that he’s a Republican and he doesn’t pay,” said a member of the National Women’s Republican Club who was involved in the matter and was granted anonymity because she fears retribution from fellow Republicans. “He’s acting like a goddamn Democrat, takes everybody’s money and spends it, but doesn’t pay his bills.”

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is how all fascist regimes eventually end, toppled through infighting. We just have to resist long enough for them to cannibalize each other.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 25 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

No, world war 2 was not won by people waiting around...

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

I'm not saying wait. I said resist. Slow them down, frustrate them, make their efforts difficult and result in small gains.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That is insanely dumb to pretend the war efforts were pointless and Hitler totally would've failed to make the world far worse without resistance...

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

it's nations that do war. people take action. in this case, the people who took action failed to eliminate hitler. try clicking the link and know what you're talking about before calling people dumb

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

People weren't involved in the war? The war had no baring on the outcome?

You're just sounding more and more obstinate than correct.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

look, if you insist on "people taking action" being exactly the same as "two or more countries engage in total war" then go ahead. you're the only one who had a problem with the comment, so i'm not worried about it

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 0 points 5 hours ago

Nowhere did I say they were the same.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

Yup, and I’d very much rather not have to wait 40 years like it took for Falange in Spain to fall apart.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 18 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

First of all, I'm not positive of who the Leopard is? They're all just eating each other.

Lastly, how did this dude get all of those chats? He wasn't on them.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 17 points 13 hours ago

They're all just eating each other.

Yeah, it is cannibalism.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It’s like in Pitch Black when the aliens have eaten all the other life on the planet and start eating each other

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago

Caught my obscure reference of the day with this one 👍

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

“Hey bro, good thing you’re not [insert extreme racism]. Anyway, my phone died. Can I borrow yours for a minute?”

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe, but Wax works for the trump admin. They also had DOGE. Just saying.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 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 13 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.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

what a bunch of weak cowardly fucking babies

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago

Offensive to babies!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

When Vicki Schmidt, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Kansas, publicly called on two Kansas Republicans whose hateful comments were revealed to step down from the state’s branch of Young Republicans, she was blasted by X user Aidan, who is reportedly a friend of Giunta.

“I promise you, people like you have done everything to tarnish our reputation. Alex was your last hope,” he wrote, adding: “Have fun being another stupid b**ch that ran for governor and lost. I’m not rooting for you.”

roflcopter

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 12 hours ago

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.

lol. lmao.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 12 hours ago

YES! This is how villain organizations are supposed to work! For once it wasn't sheer incompetence.

Taking out the competition like a villain boss. Maybe other ~~villains~~ Republicans can learn a thing or two from this guy!

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It takes a strong person to lift those around them up and be seen as the best option. It's easier to smear those around them to make themselves look a better alternative.

Sounds like they have learned how to take the easy path from watching our elections over the years

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Does a frog bump its ass when it hops? This behavior is expected.