Leaked FIU GOP Chat Reveals Racist, Violent Messages
Leaked WhatsApp logs show students and local GOP leaders exchanged racist, antisemitic and violent messages; party leaders have begun removal proceedings and FIU opened a criminal probe.
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Overview
Leaked WhatsApp logs show a group chat started by Abel Alexander Carvajal contained racist, antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic messages, including more than 400 uses of the N-word and calls for violence.
Carvajal created the chat last fall to organize conservative students at Florida International University, and reporting says it followed the killing of Charlie Kirk in September 2025.
Miami-Dade GOP leaders voted to request Carvajal's resignation and began removal proceedings while state Republican senators called for expulsions and FIU opened an investigation now part of a criminal probe.
Participants named include FIU Turning Point USA president Ian Valdes, former College Republicans recruitment chair Dariel Gonzalez and student William Bejerano, and logs show Carvajal deleted 14 messages from others and 42 of his own.
Removal proceedings await resolution by the Republican Party of Florida, and FIU's institutional inquiry and the criminal investigation into the chats remain ongoing.
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Abel Alexander Carvajal, Miami-Dade GOP Secretary and FIU law student, created the chat last fall to organize conservative students at FIU.
The logs contained over 400 uses of the N-word, racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and misogynistic messages, plus calls for violence and graphic fantasies about killing Black people.
Key participants included FIU Turning Point USA president Ian Valdes, former College Republicans recruitment chair Dariel Gonzalez, and student William Bejerano.
Miami-Dade GOP leaders voted to request Carvajal's resignation and started removal proceedings; state senators called for expulsions; FIU opened an institutional investigation now escalated to a criminal probe.
Removal proceedings against Carvajal await resolution by the Republican Party of Florida; FIU's inquiry and criminal probe into the chats are ongoing.
