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The press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stopped short of condemning a neo-Nazi rally that took place in Orlando over the weekend, and instead lashed out at reporters and falsely suggested the rally was a Democratic stunt to make the governor look bad.
Plenty of local and state officials came out against the rally on Saturday, in which a handful of members of the National Socialist Movement held up swastika-laden banners on the side of a busy corridor in Orlando and chanted anti-Semitic slogans.
The hateful & anti-Semitic demonstrations reported in Florida today have no place in our state, tweeted Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R). Across America, weve seen a heartbreaking & disgusting rise in hate like this. We must always condemn it & continue to stand strongly with our Jewish communities.
Link to tweet
But it took a while for DeSantis office to issue what should have been a layup denunciation of a hate group in his state. His press secretary, Christina Pushaw well known for her volatility with members of the press instead suggested that the Nazi rally was a Democratic ploy against DeSantis.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nazis-rally-florida-desantis-spox-181927034.html
Budi
(15,325 posts)NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
An organization that specializes in theatrical and provocative protests, the National Socialist Movement (NSM) was once one of the largest and most active neo-Nazi groups in the United States.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/national-socialist-movement
"I am not a socialist"~ joe biden
Cha
(297,027 posts)Real Fucking BAD.. like a Rotting corpse bad.
Initech
(100,054 posts)The only acceptable thing to do with a Nazi:
mia
(8,360 posts)So goes DeSantis.
mcar
(42,287 posts)My son used to live very close to where these assholes had their fascist rally.
My anger knows no bounds.
BootinUp
(47,135 posts)localroger
(3,622 posts)...is right out of the Nazi playbook. Like, the prologue.
IcyPeas
(21,855 posts)I saw Deathsantis commenting on the Orlando group of nazis on the news today.
Not to be forgotten.