Accountability | Florida
DeSantis Staffer and Trump Delegate Was Active Member of Racist Facebook Group
A member of Rep. Ron DeSantis’s campaign shared racist and anti-Islamic posts on Facebook and was a member of a vitriolic conservative group that DeSantis joined earlier this year while running for the GOP nomination for Florida governor. He compared students advocating for gun control after Florida school shooting to “Jews that gave up their firearms to Hitler” and then “led into gas chambers.” In the group, called Tea Party, he called Muslims "animals." Accusations of racial insensitivity have dogged DeSantis since almost immediately after he won the primary on Aug. 28 on the back of a Trump endorsement.
Accountability | Florida
DeSantis Featured As Member of Vitriolic Facebook Group Since 2015
The people running a hate-filled Facebook group that Rep. Ron DeSantis moderated tagged the congressman at least 17 times since 2015 and referred to him as an active administrator of the group on several occasions.
Accountability | Florida
DeSantis Moderates Hate-Filled Facebook Group That Attacks African-Americans, Parkland Survivors and Muslims
As Ron DeSantis fought back against accusations his use of the word "monkey" when talking about his African-American opponent was racist, it was uncovered that DeSantis is an administrator on an active Facebook group where conservatives share racist, conspiratorial and incendiary posts.