Dem candidate lobbed N-word in resurfaced social media posts

A Democratic congressional candidate who has branded opponents as racist has a hidden social media historical past stuffed with racial slurs and crude jabs at girls, The Submit has realized.

Ammar Campa-Najjar, a three-time congressional candidate and boyfriend of Qualcomm heiress Rep. Sara Jacobs, repeatedly lobbed the N-word on MySpace and Fb in chats with family and friends, in response to screenshots obtained by The Submit.

“Yeah my cell nonetheless works, and possibly we will decide your n—r ass up,” Campa-Najjar relied to a buddy in 2009.

“Or I can ask immigration to offer you a trip, we’ll see,” he added to the pal, who has a Hispanic surname.

Campa-Najjar’s MySpace profile, which was nonetheless reside as of Friday, options a picture with a caption studying “ready so that you can drowned in my love n—a.”

Different Fb posts present Campa-Najjar’s buddy spewing a slur: “I miss ya n—y,” the buddy wrote in 2010.

“Awe, identical right here bud. We must always hangout, what are you doing for Halloween?” Campa-Najjar replied.

The Fb profile was publicly accessible this month, however has since been made non-public. The profile was nonetheless listed within the “Contact” part of Campa-Najjar’s LinkedIn profile as of Friday.

Campa-Najjar — a graduate of San Diego State College and Navy Reserve officer who was slammed for inflating his navy credentials this week — additionally joked along with his father that his feminine faculty classmates have been ridden with sexually transmitted ailments.

“Hiya son. Good for you SDSU. Plenty of fairly ladies,” Yasser M. Alnajjar wrote in 2010.

“Yeah quite a lot of contaminated ladies too,” Campa-Najjar shot again. “That’s why SDSU has the nickname STDSU.”

Campa-Najjar, who has run two failed campaigns for Congress with the assistance of his rich’s girlfriend’s household, has labeled opponents racist for calling consideration to the truth that he beforehand glided by a unique identify.

His marketing campaign accused Democratic main opponent, Marni von Wilpert, of “false and racist assaults” in an electronic mail after she examined messaging about his names in a polling memo. Campa-Najjar beforehand glided by Ammar Yasser Najjar earlier than altering his identify to incorporate his mom’s identify, in accordance to PBS.

Former Rep. Duncan Hunter, who defeated Campa-Najjar in 2018, ran assault advertisements insinuating that Campa-Najjar, who’s of combined Mexican and Palestinian heritage and whose grandfather was a Palestinian militant, had terrorist ties.

Cammpa-Najar issued an announcement The Submit saying he didn’t recall utilizing a slur in a social media put up however urged the posts got here from a spot of insecurity.

“As a Palestinian and Mexican American who has been on the receiving finish of racial slurs since childhood, I hate them and the hurt they trigger,” Cammpa-Najar wrote in an electronic mail. “I do know what this language does to an individual, and the phrases on this web page don’t replicate my values.”

He continued: “Whereas I don’t recall scripting this almost 20 12 months outdated put up, I used to be as soon as an insecure younger man making an attempt to belong who stated silly issues to impress buddies.

“These are phrases I discover abhorrent and I acknowledge the painful historical past. I’m not asking you to excuse silly issues written on MySpace a long time in the past, I’m asking you to place confidence in the person I’ve change into by way of life’s hard-earned classes.

“In the event you permit me the privilege, I’ll spend every day in Congress combating for you and your loved ones as if it have been my very own — each in phrase and deed.”

Campa-Najjar labored for roughly one 12 months as a public affairs officer on the US Division of Labor throughout the remaining 12 months of former President Barack Obama’s tenure, in response to his Linkedin.

He’s at present assigned to a public affairs unit on the Naval Reserve after becoming a member of in 2023.

Campa-Najjar was torn aside by navy veterans this week for calling himself a Navy Officer and staging a photograph op at a deceased conflict veteran’s grave.

Political candidates who’re navy members are required to precisely state their reserve standing and to chorus from marketing campaign exercise at memorial websites.

“Ammar is a proud Navy Reserve Officer who has been on energetic responsibility standing all through intervals of his profession, together with within the Phillipines, in addition to at Pacific Fleet Head Quarters and Fort Meade,” his marketing campaign stated.

His marketing campaign for California’s forty eighth congressional district is his fourth marketing campaign — having misplaced two congressional races in 2018 and 2020 and a race for mayor of Chula Vista in 2022.

Campa-Najjar has additionally been slammed for political flip-flops, first operating as a lefty earlier than embracing right-wing positions in his 2020 marketing campaign. He’s now operating as a liberal Democrat towards Republican Jim Desmond and fellow Dem Marni Von Wilpert.

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