A Donald Trump-appointed official accused of leaking hundreds of racist, private text messages sent by the party’s youngest leaders is believed to have acted after a major bust-up over a photo-op with the president.

Wax, the former president of the New York Young Republican Club, is under fire despite not being in the chat at all. Multiple sources with knowledge of the matter told the Daily Beast that the 31-year-old obtained and leaked the messages to settle a longstanding feud with Peter Giunta, the former chair of the New York State Republican Club, who was implicated in the report.

Sources close to Giunta told the Daily Beast that “a miscommunication” resulted in Wax being left out of the photo with Trump, for which he blamed Giunta, 31.

It wasn’t until this year—while Giunta was running on a pro-Trump slate to lead the Young Republican National Federation—that he discovered Wax had never fully recovered from the incident, and was allegedly enacting revenge through support for Giunta’s opponent, Hayden Padgett.

“It’s just stupidity at this point,” the source said. “It’s a race, a race to see who destroys who first. And it’s just really disgusting.”

But those close to Wax, who declined to comment for this story, vehemently denied he was the leaker and insisted he was made the fall guy because of his feud with Giunta.

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    This is how all fascist regimes eventually end, toppled through infighting. We just have to resist long enough for them to cannibalize each other.

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          That is insanely dumb to pretend the war efforts were pointless and Hitler totally would’ve failed to make the world far worse without resistance…

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            it’s nations that do war. people take action. in this case, the people who took action failed to eliminate hitler. try clicking the link and know what you’re talking about before calling people dumb

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              People weren’t involved in the war? The war had no baring on the outcome?

              You’re just sounding more and more obstinate than correct.

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                look, if you insist on “people taking action” being exactly the same as “two or more countries engage in total war” then go ahead. you’re the only one who had a problem with the comment, so i’m not worried about it

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        Yup, and I’d very much rather not have to wait 40 years like it took for Falange in Spain to fall apart.

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        I’m not saying wait. I said resist. Slow them down, frustrate them, make their efforts difficult and result in small gains.