Indians Do Not Bathe Often Republican Official Implies in Online Chat
Vile comments against Indians, Jews, and Blacks in Telegram chat group of Young Republicans revealed by POLITICO
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October 18, 2025
A member of a Young Republican online chat group talked about a mutual friend who “dated this very obese Indian woman,” POLITICO reported last week. “She just didn’t bathe often,” responded Samuel Douglass, an elected member of the Senate in Vermont and Chair of the state’s Young Republicans Committee.
In a different chat, his wife Brianna Douglass, a Vermont Young Republicans committee member, says her husband may have erred by “expecting the Jew to be honest.” She was referring to Jewish colleague Hayden Padgett, who is Chair of the Young Republican National Federation, according to The Hill.
Comments posted by other members of the Telegram group include: “He also hates the Jews”; “I Love Hitler”; and about putting their political opponents in a “gas chamber.” Some in the group referred to Black people as monkeys and praised Republicans who they believed support slavery.
The exchange is part of 2,900 pages of chats on Telegram, an online platform, shared among a dozen young leaders of the Republican Party. The chats, between early January and mid-August this year, were obtained by POLITICO. Many of the chat members were working in government or Republican Party posts.
Initially after the POLITICO story was published, Douglass resisted calls from leaders of the Vermont Republican Party that he should resign as Senator.
On Friday, Douglass resigned issuing a statement in which he said, “offense was taken and people were hurt…I have reached out to the majority of my Jewish and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) friends and colleagues.” He added that he was bombarded with messages of “horrific hate,” against him, his wife and their new baby.
Both Douglass and his wife resigned from the Vermont Young Republicans Committee.
Since the POLITICO story, at least six others in the Telegram chat, besides Douglass, are out of jobs.