去年泄露的“青年共和党人”群聊的创建者将其种族主义言论——包括一条内容为“我爱希特勒”的短信，以及另一条他称黑人为“西瓜人”的短信——描述为“冒犯了人的愚蠢玩笑”。
The creator of the Young Republicans group chat that leaked last year characterized his racist messages — including a text that said “I love Hitler” and another in which he called Black people “the watermelon people” — as “stupid jokes that offended people.”
纽约州青年共和党前主席彼得·吉恩塔在周四发布的一篇 Substack 文章中承认，虽然群里的一些信息“本不该发送”，但他和其他人使用的许多种族诽谤和侮辱性语言“与你在大胆的 Instagram Reels 短视频中听到的或在 X 上读到的没什么两样”。“归根结底，我开了一些冒犯人的愚蠢玩笑。我不是种族主义者。我并不‘爱’希特勒。我不是反犹太主义者。不过，我是个有着黑色幽默感的人，有时会觉得自己比实际更风趣，”吉恩塔在文中写道。
In a Substack post published Thursday Peter Giunta, the former chair of the New York State Young Republicans, admitted that while some of the messages in the group “shouldn’t have been sent,” many of the racial slurs and epithets he and others used were “no different than those you’d hear in an edgy Instagram reel or read on X.” “The bottom line is that I made stupid jokes that offended people. I am not racist. I do not ‘love’ Hitler. I am not antisemitic. I am, however, a guy with a dark sense of humor who sometimes finds himself funnier than he actually is,” Giunta wrote in the post.
该群聊最早由《政治报》于 2025 年 10 月报道，其中包含去年 1 月至 8 月中旬间十几名共和党人在 Telegram 上分享的令人震惊的信息。参与者包括一名州参议员和全美各地青年共和党俱乐部的负责人，他们使用了“N 字开头的种族歧视词”，称强奸文化“很酷”，并拿纳粹毒气室开玩笑。
The group chat, first reported by Politico in October 2025, featured shocking Telegram messages shared among a dozen Republicans between January and mid-August of last year. The participants, including a state senator and the heads of young Republican clubs nationwide, used the N-word, called rape culture “epic” and joked about Nazi gas chambers.
除了吉恩塔的“我爱希特勒”短信——他在 Substack 文中将其描述为针对“选举‘最右翼的人’领导青年共和党全国联合会”这一评论而发出的“讽刺性、故意夸张的玩笑”——他还用粗俗的侮辱性词汇指代同性恋者和女性，并赞扬一个当地青少年共和党团体据称支持奴隶制。《政治报》的报道援引了吉恩塔向“因无神经且不可原谅的语言而感到冒犯的人”道歉的内容。另一名参与者也向《政治报》道歉，而许多其他人则拒绝置评。
In addition to Giunta’s “I love Hitler” text — which he describes in the Substack as a “sarcastic, deliberately over-the-top joke” sent in response to a comment about electing “the most right-wing person” to lead the Young Republican National Federation — he also used vulgar slurs to refer to gay people and women, and lauded a local teen Republican group for allegedly supporting slavery. The Politico report included an apology from Giunta “to those offended by the insensitive and inexcusable language.”Another participant also apologized to Politico, while many others declined to comment.
在《Politico》和其他全国性媒体（包括 MS NOW）报道这些信息后，后果来得迅速：纽约州共和党委员会暂时暂停了纽约青年共和党分会的资格；高层全国共和党领导人谴责这些信息，数名参与者失去了工作。吉翁塔被解除纽约州众议员幕僚长一职。
After Politico and other national media outlets, including MS NOW, covered the messages, the fallout was swift: The New York Republican State Committee temporarily suspended the New York Young Republicans chapter; high-level national Republican leaders condemned the messages and several participants lost their jobs. Giunta was fired from his job as chief of staff to a New York assemblymember.
在 Substack 上，吉翁塔猛烈抨击这些回应，写道这表明共和党已“沦为‘珍珠紧握党’（指过度道德洁癖的政党）”。“当危机或丑闻来袭，太多当选官员急于做出反应——有时发出最强烈的谴责，要求辞职，而在本案中，竟将愚蠢的玩笑视如正式政纲，”他写道。
In the Substack, Giunta lambasted those responses, writing that they showed the GOP has “become the party of pearl-clutching.”“When a crisis or scandal hits, too many of those in elected office jump to react — sometimes issuing the strongest condemnation, demanding resignations, and, in this case, treating stupid jokes as if they were a formal policy platform,” he wrote.
与此同时，副总统万斯试图淡化群聊事件，为参与者辩护称他们是“孩子们”。但据《Mother Jones》报道，在年龄公开的11名参与者中，有8人在聊天记录泄露时年龄在24至35岁之间。该媒体无法确定另外3人的年龄。根据公开记录，吉翁塔现年32岁。
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance tried to downplay the group chat and defended its participants as “kids.”But eight of the 11 participants whose ages were publicly available were between the ages of 24 and 35 at the time the chat leaked, Mother Jones reported The outlet could not determine the ages of the other three. According to public records, Giunta is 32 years old.
吉翁塔写道，在群组短信报道发布后，他经历了“公开羞辱和职业生涯毁灭”，以及抑郁症。
Giunta wrote that he experienced “public humiliation and professional destruction,” as well as depression, in the aftermath of the reporting on the group texts.
“有几天我感到过度焦虑和绝望，不敢面对自己的家人，有几天我不起床，有几天我几乎不吃不喝。我感觉仿佛失去了对整个人生的掌控，”他写道。
“There were days I felt too anxious and too hopeless to be around my own family, days I didn’t leave my bed, and days I barely ate. I felt as if I had lost control over my entire life,” he wrote.
吉翁塔在 Substack 上的发言标志着该群组成员首次公开详细谈论泄露信息的后果。他写道，他现在发声是因为《Politico》曝光群聊的报道即将迎来一周年纪念日。
Giunta’s Substack remarks mark the first time a member of the group has spoken publicly at length about the fallout from the leaked messages. He wrote that he is doing so now because the first anniversary of the Politico story exposing the group chat is approaching this month.
他还写道，希望“继续在政治领域发声，无论是在纽约还是全美范围内”，并补充道：“那些以为一次泄露就能永远让一个花了13年时间打下实打实基础的人噤声的人，即将明白他们有多么错误”，这指的是他早年在纽约从事共和党政治工作的经历。
He also wrote that he wants to “remain an active voice in politics, in New York and across the country,” adding, “the people who thought a single leak could permanently silence someone who spent 13 years building something real are about to learn just how wrong they were,” referring to his earlier years working in Republican politics in New York.
他还重申了道歉，写道他后悔“这一事件给我的家人和挚爱带来的痛苦”以及“把某些笑话写下来的愚蠢”。但他表示，他不后悔“拒绝假装一群年轻政治操盘手在私人群聊里交换梗图、嘲讽和黑色幽默，就等同于新纳粹宣言”。Giunta未回应MS NOW的置评请求。不过，他在周五的私人Instagram动态中表示，拒绝了该记者的置评请求。该Substack帖子发布在一个以Giunta名义注册的账号上，并由一个同名账号转发。该帖子 年轻共和党人群聊创始人称种族主义短信为“愚蠢玩笑”MS NOW
He also reiterated his apology, writing that he regrets “the pain that this episode caused my family and loved ones” and “the stupidity of putting certain jokes in writing.”But he said he does not regret “refusing to pretend that a private group chat of young political operatives trading memes, barbs, and dark humor was the equivalent of a neo-Nazi manifesto.”Giunta did not respond to MS NOW’s requests for comment. However, he posted a story on his private Instagram account Friday saying he was declining the journalist’s request for comment. The Substack post was published on an account under Giunta’s name and shared on an account bearing his name. The post Creator of Young Republicans group chat calls racist texts ‘stupid jokes’MS NOW