The New York State Young Republicans were disbanded in a unanimous vote by the New York State Republican Party leaders Friday following the leak of offensive messages shared among a dozen millennial and Generation Z Republicans on Oct. 14. The 2,900 pages of online messages, which were published by POLITICO, a media company that covers politics, saw Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont use slurs, claim to love Hitler and refer to rape as “epic” on the messaging app Telegram.
“Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” Peter Giunta, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, wrote about an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation. “Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
