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Ron DeSantis staffer accused of sharing video with governor’s face in the middle of a Nazi symbol
Dailydot ^ | July 24, 2023 | Mikael Thalen

Posted on 07/24/2023 1:15:18 PM PDT by backpacker_c

A staffer for presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is being accused of retweeting a video showing the Florida governor surrounded by a Nazi symbol.

The video, which was originally shared and later deleted by a DeSantis fan account, shows troops marching towards the conservative politician as Florida’s flag and a sunwheel are visible in the background.

“The @desantiscams account just deleted this video after at least one campaign staffer RT’d it,” podcast host Luke Thompson wrote after sharing a copy of the video. “I wonder if this was also made in-house.”

Thompson’s remark also points to an incident several weeks ago in which the DeSantis campaign promoted another video that criticized former President Donald Trump for at times supporting the LGBTQ community. As reported by the New York Times on Sunday, the video, which had been passed off as being produced by a fan, had actually been developed in-house by a DeSantis staffer.

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Looks like another team desantis plausible deniability video, by having someone else tweet it, then the campaign push it.

Link to the video

https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1683126430534598656

the symbol appears at the end 1 minute mark

Nice message, desanctimonious

1 posted on 07/24/2023 1:15:18 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

I guess that’s part of the DeSanchez campaign reboot to break out of 3rd place?


2 posted on 07/24/2023 1:17:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: backpacker_c

3 posted on 07/24/2023 1:19:03 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

Much ado about nothing.


4 posted on 07/24/2023 1:20:36 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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Well that was dumb


5 posted on 07/24/2023 1:21:08 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: backpacker_c

If it’s a Nazi symbol, it’s an unfamiliar one.

Weird video, that is most likely not a DeSantis campaign production.


6 posted on 07/24/2023 1:22:17 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: backpacker_c

Do we have any grown ups in the room anymore ???!?


7 posted on 07/24/2023 1:22:54 PM PDT by George from New England
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8 posted on 07/24/2023 1:23:43 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: backpacker_c

He did Nazi that coming.


9 posted on 07/24/2023 1:27:48 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: backpacker_c

Whoever made it, it’s juvenile.


10 posted on 07/24/2023 1:28:25 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: unclebankster

It’s one that has been used, but some groups started putting it on patches, so it got associated with white supremacy by the media.

Also, the social media team that desantis hired, doesn’t seem to be able to do effective messaging videos, from the ones that I saw, before twitter started to make people have to log in to use twitter.

It very well could be one of them made and put it out, thinking it would imply one thing, without thinking it would associate desantis with white supremacy.


11 posted on 07/24/2023 1:32:19 PM PDT by backpacker_c ( )
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To: George from New England
Do we have any grown ups in the room anymore ?

I think the idea is to offend the sensibilities of normal rational people so much that they will withdraw from participating in the political process altogether, making it that much easier for the left to claim everything.
12 posted on 07/24/2023 1:37:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: backpacker_c

That’s certainly not a traditional nazi symbol, if that’s even what it is.

It even say “In God We Trust” on it. Is that supposed to be Nazi now too, according to this?


13 posted on 07/24/2023 1:37:41 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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To: backpacker_c

Give me a break. Get over your obsession. The primary is over.


14 posted on 07/24/2023 1:42:33 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM!)
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To: backpacker_c
A staffer for presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is being accused of retweeting a video showing the Florida governor surrounded by a Nazi symbol.

I believe they meant re-X-ing

15 posted on 07/24/2023 1:42:48 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I would appreciate it if journalists would report on real news and stop race baiting all the time. Am I supposed to worry about somebody I don’t know or care about posting something on the interwebs, besides me?


16 posted on 07/24/2023 1:44:22 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: backpacker_c

Good grief that ad gives me a headache


17 posted on 07/24/2023 1:47:50 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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To: backpacker_c

Actually I worry about the Biden crime cabal much more than any anti Republican propaganda. The only consistent conservative message needs to be to send Biden regime packing rather than finding propaganda to go after potential conservatives. But that is just my viewpoint.


18 posted on 07/24/2023 1:49:25 PM PDT by apoliticalone (We need real justice not fictitious SOCIAL JUSTICE & DEI that is politics & propaganda, not justice.)
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To: Golden Eagle

That’s certainly not a traditional nazi symbol, if that’s even what it is.

It even say “In God We Trust” on it. Is that supposed to be Nazi now too, according to this?


Post an image of the symbol with that.


19 posted on 07/24/2023 1:53:15 PM PDT by backpacker_c ( )
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To: SpaceBar
I think the idea is to offend the sensibilities of normal rational people so much that they will withdraw from participating in the political process altogether, making it that much easier for the left to claim everything.

I think that’s a very good analysis. Current national politics has been turned into a typical episode of the Jerry Springer show.

20 posted on 07/24/2023 1:53:27 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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