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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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Plenty more of this guy's garbage at the link.
1 posted on 06/27/2023 3:48:55 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

Well, well, well.
Not a good hire by DeGlobalist


2 posted on 06/27/2023 3:50:23 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: SoConPubbie

If you aren’t getting dirtied up you aren’t running.


3 posted on 06/27/2023 4:01:09 PM PDT by dforest
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I don’t think this guy is famous enough for this be a problem for Ron.


4 posted on 06/27/2023 4:01:50 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: SoConPubbie
“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.

I've read a great many posts by Freepers lamenting that most American Jews vote Democratic and "hate Israel."

So this particular Gonzalez post aligns with plenty of Freepers.

5 posted on 06/27/2023 4:03:10 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: escapefromboston

He’ll become more famous if DeSantis continues to associate with him after this revelation.


6 posted on 06/27/2023 4:18:50 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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De Santis Influencer?

Does that mean that he has influence over De Santis; that he is one of those self-proclaimed ‘influencers’ with a Tik Tok or YouTube channel that just happens to support De Santis, or that the De Santis campaign is paying the guy to try to influence people?

I suppose I could read the whole article and maybe find out, but I’d hate to break tradition.


7 posted on 06/27/2023 4:38:40 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Republican Wildcat; rhinohunter

Pedro Gonzalez has appeared on Tucker several times. I like him. He wants to smash the left and the NeoCons into the ground. He has good takes most of the time especially on the cultural issues.

But Gonzalez take on Trump is that Trump will not fight for us - he is all talk and if he wins, he will do nothing. Gonzalez wants actions not words. According to Gonzalez, Trump surrounds himself with Neocons - all the time (example : Lindsay Graham). And according to him, Trump will surrender on the LBQ+ stuff, and will not drain the swamp. He is all show and the proof is who Trump hangs out with and hires.

With that said, I am voting Trump. There is no one else to vote for. Period.


8 posted on 06/27/2023 4:49:32 PM PDT by Saint Athanasius ("I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan)
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“Guilty by Association” fallacy. Got to be really desperate to fall for that. Same was done to Trump with Jeffrey Epstein, Nick Fuentes, Kanye, Michael Cohen, etc. You’d think Trump supporters would be the last to resort to such tactics.


9 posted on 06/27/2023 4:53:07 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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There is a lot of really offensive people with really offensive thoughts, ideas, and writings. Trump had some, no surprise DeSantis has some. I'm sure as they are outted, they'll be quickly gone. And they should be.

I'll need to reread the Brietbart article later but on first read, I have never heard of the guy, nor his apparent circle of friends. I'm curious to see if any of them are here on FR, maybe directly identifiable or via similar word patterns?

10 posted on 06/27/2023 4:59:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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No, this is like those people on Tik Tok, Twitter, and elsewhere that claim attention and the platforms sometimes annoint them as Influencers. Probably the best example is the mentally ill man pretending to be a little girl who became an influencer with Bud Light.


11 posted on 06/27/2023 5:03:27 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: SoConPubbie

It ain’t anti-semitic if it is true.


12 posted on 06/27/2023 5:12:34 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Poor Andrew Breitbart. How much the people running that site dishonor his name.


13 posted on 06/27/2023 5:13:10 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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Is this confirmed it is even him?

There is so much bullshit that has been flying around that I don’t know what is truth from fiction.


14 posted on 06/27/2023 5:15:13 PM PDT by DMD13
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“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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I am Jewish - 100%, going back as far as I can trace, my wife is also and so (naturally, are our kids - so I feel qualified to comment on this statement: From a political perspective, he’s correct. Most (about 70%, in my estimation) American Jews are hopelessly left wing, and are so politically dense that they don’t understand that they are supporting those whose policies will doom them (or their grandchildren) to no -existence as a Jew (and maybe just plain non-existence).

That said, I don’t support DeSantis at this time, my heart and vote belong to Trump. If Ron somehow gets the nomination, I will vote for him over anyone with a “-D” after his or her name.


15 posted on 06/27/2023 5:44:33 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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“Plenty more of this guy’s garbage at the link.”

More evidence of my tag line being more and more true.

“Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends”


16 posted on 06/27/2023 5:47:01 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: SoConPubbie

You know, if a liberal read my comments on free republic, they would get upset, I guaranteee.


17 posted on 06/27/2023 5:48:27 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: SoConPubbie

Yuck.


18 posted on 06/27/2023 6:40:57 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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I don’t like DeSantis or paid mercenaries like Gonzalez but noticing that Jews are overwhelmingly leftist is not Mustache Man 2.0


19 posted on 06/27/2023 7:29:30 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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Pedro sounds like Nixon speaking to Haldeman and Erlichmann here.


20 posted on 06/27/2023 7:39:06 PM PDT by Clemenza
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