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Exclusive — Rising Conservative Influencer Pedro Gonzalez Regularly Espoused Racist and Anti-Semitic Sentiments in Private Messages [DeSantis Influencer]
Breitbart ^ | 27 Jun 2023 | MATTHEW BOYLE

Posted on 06/27/2023 3:48:55 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

Pedro Gonzalez, a rising conservative influencer and politics editor of Chronicles magazine, regularly in 2019 and 2020 sent racist and antisemitic messages, Breitbart News can reveal after reviewing months’ worth of his private messages.

More recently, Gonzalez has become perhaps most well-known as one of the most active and strident pro-Florida Gov. Ron Desantis influencers on Twitter.

“Yeah like not every Jew is problematic, but the sad fact is that most are,” Gonzalez wrote in one group chat in 2019, for instance.

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A DESANTIS ‘INFLUENCER’ RISES

Gonzalez is particularly newsworthy at this time because he is one of the highest-profile online personalities promoting Ron DeSantis’s 2024 presidential campaign. The DeSantis campaign and the Super PAC backing DeSantis—called “Never Back Down”—have both been publicly promoting, and sometimes retweeting, Gonzalez and his work.

DeSantis entered the 2024 GOP presidential race on Wednesday, May 24. In the few weeks since then, Gonzalez has seen amplification of his work from people in the Florida governor’s orbit, as high-ranking as DeSantis’s campaign manager Generra Peck, Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw, campaign adviser Nate Hochman, Never Back Down communications adviser Steve Cortes, and others. The DeSantis War Room official campaign Twitter account has also amplified his work.

Pushaw and Gonzalez regularly interact publicly on social media. Pushaw, since DeSantis entered the race, has written at least a dozen original tweets interacting with Gonzalez, tagging his account—as well as retweeting him many times as well. Dating back to 2021, Pushaw and Gonzalez have interacted dozens

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: christinapushaw; desantis; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; florida; influencers; rondesantis; teamdesantis; trump
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To: SoConPubbie

Pedro sounds like Nixon speaking to Haldeman and Erlichmann here. Next he will be caught texting about gays ruling Bohemian Grove.


21 posted on 06/27/2023 7:39:58 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: SoConPubbie

You’re getting your panties in a wad over this?
American Jews ARE a huge problem! Try to tell me they aren’t.
Most minority communities are on the Dim plantation against their best interests.
What a crock of excrement.


22 posted on 06/27/2023 10:09:41 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: LegendHasIt

The only “INFLUENCER” I pay attention is GOD and the good sense HE gave me.


23 posted on 06/27/2023 10:19:39 PM PDT by 5th MEB
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To: SoConPubbie
Plenty more of this guy's garbage at the link.

Pedro has some mean tweets! Run for your fainting couch!

24 posted on 06/28/2023 8:37:50 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Angelino97
So this particular Gonzalez post aligns with plenty of Freepers.

Still, many will pretend to be deeply offended because he was pro-DeSantis.

25 posted on 06/28/2023 8:39:05 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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