President Donald Trump nominated former conservative podcaster Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel on Thursday.

Ingrassia is currently working at the White House as an aide. He was formerly the host of the podcast Right On Point. 

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“I am pleased to nominate Paul Ingrassia to head the United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC),” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. 

“Paul is a highly respected attorney, writer, and Constitutional Scholar, who has done a tremendous job serving as my White House Liaison for Homeland Security,” he added.

Ingrassia graduated from Cornell Law School in 2022, according to his LinkedIn profile. He worked as an attorney and served on the legal team of Andrew Tate, who has been accused of human trafficking.

Trump fired Hampton Dellinger from the role earlier this year despite being appointed by former President Joe Biden for a five-year term. Dellinger filed a lawsuit in response to his firing. An appeals court declined to allow Dellinger to stay in his role while the lawsuit progressed, which pushed him to quit.

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The OSC, which monitors ethics and safeguards federal whistleblowers, caught the ire of Trump during his first term as it pursued allegations of misconduct. During his first administration, it found 13 senior aides campaigned for his reelection in 2020 in violation of the Hatch Act. Ingrassia advocated for Trump to use martial law in the wake of the 2020 election, in which Trump repeatedly claimed he won despite Biden’s victory being confirmed and the then-former vice president being sworn in.

Ingrassia posted on social media that as head of the office, he would “make every effort to restore competence and integrity to the Executive Branch — with priority on eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in the federal workplace, and Revitalize the Rule of Law and Fairness in Hatch Act enforcement.”