A Donald Trump staffer embroiled in scandal after allegedly leaking racist texts sent by his colleagues previously backed Ron DeSantis for the White House, it emerged today.
Gavin Wax, who works at the State Department, remains in his job despite the scandal, with sources revealing he enjoys a close relationship with Trump, seeing him as ‘father figure’.
But his loyalty to the commander-in-chief has not always been so sure.
A source who has followed Wax’s career closely told the Daily Mail that ‘Gavin was all in for DeSantis before he realized he could make more money from Trump.’
‘He even wrote op-eds on the subject,’ the source noted that he ‘has largely scrubbed them from the internet.’
One article written by Wax for American Greatness in March of 2021 criticized Trump’s elevation of his son-in-law Jared Kushner to positions of power within his first administration.
At the time, Wax noted that ‘if the president cannot learn from his most glaring mistake, Jared Kushner, it is time for the Republican Party to move on and find a worthy successor for the MAGA revolution he started.’
On January 23rd of 2021, Wax also tweeted ‘DeSantis 2024’, just three days after Joe Biden was sworn in as America’s 46th President.
Gavin M. Wax & Donald Trump; From Gavin M. Wax’s Instagram
Gavin Wax and family
Wax opined in American Greatness in 2021 that the GOP may need to move on from Trump
Wax tweeted in support of DeSantis in 2021, three days after Joe Biden was sworn in as president
‘He was so quick to flip on Trump in January 2021 after he lost,’ a senior Republican official from New York told Daily Mail.
The same official added that Wax’s change of heart was driven by money.
He’s friends with Alex [Bruesewitz], who does Trump’s social media. Alex partnered with him. He made so much money from the campaign,’ the source added.
‘He’s not loyal, it’s money, he was the first one to turn on Trump after the 2020 election,’ the individual said.
Wax declined to comment to the Daily Mail about the accusations.
By 2023, Wax was all aboard the Trump Train.
A then 28-year-old Gavin Wax, a middle-class kid from Queens, sent a cold note to President Trump inviting him to the New York Young Republicans Gala at Cipriani on Wall Street, not expecting anything in return.
Trump accepted — launching Wax into the presidential orbit.
‘He came to speak to us, not the party,’ a source close to Wax told the Daily Mail. ‘He sat there at dinner with him, eating steak.’
The two developed what sources describe as a ‘pen-pal’ relationship.
Wax’s New York Young Republican Club was the first organization in the country to endorse Trump for re-election.
‘He took a bet on himself. He was a self-promoter, a pull-yourself-up-from-the-bootstraps kind of guy… and well, the President liked that about him,’ a source that used to work closely with the New York Young Republican Club said.
Wax’s political rise began in earnest in 2018 when he led a pro-Trump insurgency to take over the Metropolitan Republican Club, a century-old Upper East Side institution founded by Teddy Roosevelt.
‘He spearheaded the takeover,’ the source says. ‘It was a fierce fight between the pro-Trump faction he led and the anti-Trump establishment. The New York GOP hated him for it because he took away their clubhouse.’
