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DeSantis Influencer Blames Trumpers for Leaking Racist Messages<!-- wp:html --><p>Getty</p> <p>It appears the battle between Trumpworld and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/free-advice-for-ron-desantis-dont-run-for-president">Ron DeSantis</a>’ camp over <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trail-mix-trump-woos-maga-influencers-posobiec-raichik-and-fournier-at-mar-a-lago">right-wing influencers</a> is getting down and dirty.</p> <p>On Tuesday, the far-right website Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/27/exclusive-rising-conservative-influencer-pedro-gonzalez-regularly-espoused-racist-and-anti-semitic-sentiments-in-private-messages/">published</a> a story reporting that in 2019 and 2020, a conservative writer named Pedro Gonzalez—who was once a Trump backer and is now supporting DeSantis—sent antisemitic and racist messages.</p> <p>The article, which went viral in conservative circles, included a raft of direct quotes from the messages sent in a group chat called “Right-Wing Death Squad” and to a single member of that group chat.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-influencer-pedro-gonzalez-blames-trumpers-for-leaking-racist-and-anti-semitic-messages">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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It appears the battle between Trumpworld and Ron DeSantis’ camp over right-wing influencers is getting down and dirty.

On Tuesday, the far-right website Breitbart published a story reporting that in 2019 and 2020, a conservative writer named Pedro Gonzalez—who was once a Trump backer and is now supporting DeSantis—sent antisemitic and racist messages.

The article, which went viral in conservative circles, included a raft of direct quotes from the messages sent in a group chat called “Right-Wing Death Squad” and to a single member of that group chat.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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