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Former New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax has been accused of leaking the Young Republicans' Telegram chats to Politico, which were published in an article on October 14, 2025. Thousands of leaked messages showed the members of Young Republicans allegedly sending racist and homophobic slurs and joking about slavery, r*pe, and gas chambers.
The 2,900-page trove of text messages was reportedly exchanged between Young Republican leaders of New York, Vermont, Arizona, and Kansas between January and August 2025. In one of the messages, Peter Giunta, the chairman of the New York State Young Republicans, sent a message to the group that read “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber” in June.
In a statement to Politico, Guinta alleged that Gavin Wax was responsible for the leak, claiming that the leak was “a highly-coordinated year-long character assassination led by Gavin Wax and the New York City Young Republican Club.”
For context, the New York City Republican Club is a city-based group reportedly in conflict with the state-based New York State Young Republicans. According to his website, Wax had previously served as both the "National Committeeman and Corresponding Secretary for the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs."
“These logs were sourced by way of extortion and provided to POLITICO by the very same people conspiring against me. What’s most disheartening is that, despite my unwavering support of President Trump since 2016, rouge [sic] members of his administration — including Gavin Wax — have participated in this conspiracy to ruin me publicly simply because I challenged them privately,” Giunta said.SOURCE: I am told that Gavin Wax- pressured Bartels to share the chat logs, threatening his career if he did not - was eventually successful in this endeavor - also sent the logs to Politico himself, and that NYGOP members have proof- cooperated with Politico over an extended period of time even discussing the framing and focus of the article- provided reporters with contact information and introductions- failed, as Politico did, to get anyone else in the chat to flip- was not protected by the White House when the White House had the opportunity to do soThis goes far beyond cowardice. Wax, it appears, worked extensively with hostile media to destroy the reputations of a number of fellow conservatives.Wax has frequently been accused of tolerating, sometimes introducing, drugs and pr*stitution into NYGOP, as well as exploiting NDAs to blackmail members. Wax once worked for the American Jewish Congress.
For those uninformed, Gavin Wax is the current Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. He is also the chairman of the New York Young Republican Club and the Club's president in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2024.
According to the Politico article, Michael Bartels, whose name appeared in the Telegram chats, also singled out Wax as the person behind the leaks. In a notarized affidavit, Bartels (who is a member of the Trump administration) claimed that Wax "demanded" access to the full chat log in a phone call and allegedly "threatened [his] professional standing" when he "attempted to resist that demand."
“When I attempted to resist that demand, after providing some of the requested information, Wax threatened my professional standing, and raised the possibility of potential legal action related to an alleged breach of a non-disclosure agreement. My position within the New York Young Republican Club was directly threatened,” Bartels claimed in the affidavit.New York Young Republicans Club President Gavin Wax, who identifies as Jewish, allegedly extorted Mike Bartels to obtain the Telegram messages, which he then leaked to Politico.
Gavin Wax resigned as president of the New York Young Republican Club in April 2025
Gavin Wax is a New York-based conservative political strategist and media commentator. According to his LinkedIn profile, Wax graduated from Nassau Community College with an associate's degree in liberal arts. He also has a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Baruch College.
Gavin Wax began his career as an e-commerce manager at Gogotech in 2015. His other designations in marketing include search & social manager, digital strategy associate director, and digital marketing director.
He was the executive director at the National Constitutional Law Union between 2023 and 2025. He was also the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor at the FCC for six months in 2025. In August 2025, Gavin Wax was made Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
According to his website, Wax was involved in the New York State Young Republican Clubs as both national committeeman and corresponding secretary. He also served a short stint as an ambassador for Turning Point USA and Live Action.
"In 2020, Gavin was named Republican Youth of the Year by the Queens Village Republican Club, the nation’s oldest GOP club, and in 2021 he was honored as a Rising Star by the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs," his website noted.Additionally, Wax has made appearances on Fox News, Newsmax, Fox Business, and Real America's Voice. His articles have been published in Newsmax, Newsweek, The Washington Examiner, American Thinker, and The Washington Times. He also co-authored The Emerging Populist Majority with Troy M. Olson, which was published in January 2024.
In April 2025, he announced his resignation as president of the New York Young Republican Club via a joint post with the Club's Instagram page.
"Gavin Wax has formally tendered his resignation as President of the Club. After nearly six years at the helm, he departs as one of its most impactful leaders, having built the largest Young Republican organization in the nation. He now begins a new chapter as Chairman of the Club," the post's caption read.He is married to his wife, Chelsea, and the couple has a one-year-old son.
According to Politico, Gavin Wax reportedly declined to comment on the allegations that he leaked the Young Republicans Telegram messages to the publication.
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