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Semafor reports:
Senior aides to Ron DeSantis oversaw the campaign’s high-risk strategy of laundering incendiary videos produced by their staff through allied anonymous Twitter accounts, a set of internal campaign communications obtained by Semafor reveals. The videos include two that have created recurring distractions for his campaign in recent weeks: an anti-Trump video that featured a fascist symbol, and another that attacked Donald Trump for past comments supportive of LGBT rights.
The meme-filled videos emerged from a Signal channel called “War Room Creative Ideas,” screenshots of which were shared with Semafor and whose authenticity was confirmed by a second source familiar with the campaign. The chat in Signal, an encrypted messaging app, offers the first clear look into the “war room” that has defined the Florida governor’s candidacy, and is presided over by his high-profile and confrontational director of rapid response, Christina Pushaw.
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The creator of the Nazi clip, Nate Hochman was fired. Hochman last year appeared in a Twitter Spaces event with Nazi Nick Fuentes, during which he gushed over Fuentes.
New with @ShelbyTalcott: Inside War Room Creative Ideas, the now-dead internal DeSantis chat group where meme videos got workshopped by campaign and pitched to “anons” who could tweet them. https://t.co/mYbvgTJR9o
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) July 31, 2023
Holy shit. New texts were just leaked showing top Ron DeSantis campaign staff praising a video of DeSantis with Nazi symbols.
“This belongs in the Smithsonian.”
They gave the video to an anonymous account to post in order to hide that they made it.
https://t.co/4pLf5HVD4x pic.twitter.com/kGuJVpePDM
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 1, 2023
So turns out that the DeSantis campaign dishonestly scapegoated Nate Hochman to take the blame over those viral videos and fired him over it – Despite the fact that the videos were actually approved by senior DeSantis staff. What absolute scumbags. pic.twitter.com/3HKSPh412U
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) August 1, 2023