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Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) presidential campaign is now beset by a steady stream of leaks of message coordination communications, yet another serious setback for the flailing candidate.The latest leaks to Semafor show that the DeSantis campaign’s senior-most levels oversaw the creation of highly controversial Twitter meme videos that were then quietly distributed by campaign staffers out to anonymously-run Twitter accounts they called “anons” before being amplified by the campaign. One such video, which featured the use of a Sonnenrad behind DeSantis in it–a Sonnenrad is an image often used by Nazis–led to the ouster of one DeSantis aide named Nate...

‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign THE SCOOP Senior aides to Ron DeSantis oversaw the campaign’s high-risk strategy of laundering incendiary videos produced by their staff through allied anonymous Twitter accounts, a set of internal campaign communications obtained by Semafor reveals. The videos include two that have created recurring distractions for his campaign in recent weeks: an anti-Trump video that featured a fascist symbol, and another that attacked Donald Trump for past comments supportive of LGBT rights. The meme-filled videos emerged from a Signal channel called “War Room Creative Ideas,” screenshots...