{"id":5553,"date":"2025-10-16T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5553\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:01:07","slug":"ny-gop-to-disband-young-republicans-group-after-sick-group-chat-praising-hitler-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5553\/","title":{"rendered":"NY GOP to disband Young Republicans group after sick group chat praising Hitler revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state Republican committee will disband its Young Republicans chapter after a vile group chat between its members revealed they joked about rape and praised Hitler, sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after thousands of the gross, antisemitic and racist messages were disclosed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/14\/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">POLITICO story<\/a> this week that sent shockwaves through political circles, especially in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019\u2019s time to start fresh,\u201d a source familiar with the party\u2019s plans said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37402654\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/seal-new-york-state-republican-113590466.jpg\" alt=\"Seal of the New York State Republican Party on a podium.\" class=\"wp-image-37402654\"  \/>New York\u2019s GOP executive committee will vote to disband its Young Republicans chapter Friday, sources tell The Post. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The New York Republican State Committee\u2019s executive board will meet Friday morning and is expected to formally vote to disband the group, two sources told The Post Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Newsday was first to report the breakoff.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Giunta and Bobby Walker, the former and current presidents of New York\u2019s Young Republicans, were axed as the group\u2019s chats that included cheering the rape of their political enemies and joking about sending people to gas chambers.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.31623932;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37402656\" width=\"770\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2023-winter-conference-6th-annual-113506003_5e4d3a.jpg\" alt=\"Bobby Walker speaking at the NYSYR 2023 Winter Conference and 6th Annual Rising Stars Reception.\" class=\"wp-image-37402656\"  \/>Bobby Walker speaking at the NYSYR 2023 Winter Conference and 6th Annual Rising Stars Reception. Walker was axed from the Young Republicans. NYSYR<\/p>\n<p>The group chat scandal was the last straw, the party source said \u2014 after boiling tensions between party leadership and the Young Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/new-york-playbook-pm\/2025\/09\/26\/peter-giunta-new-york-state-young-republicans-financials-00582743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported last month<\/a> that the chapter was thousands of dollars in debt after throwing a lavish holiday party in 2023 and hadn\u2019t been keeping up with required financial disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>The source said the committee hasn\u2019t discussed future steps towards bringing back the Young Republicans down the road, but said \u201cit\u2019s time to start again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state Republican committee will disband its Young Republicans chapter after a vile group chat between its members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4241,416,57,9,11,10,49,51,50,5285,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-5553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-republican-party","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}