Pensacola, Fla.— A government official, whose salary is paid for by Florida tax payers, had to delete a Nazi sympathizing tweet earlier. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary, Christina Pushaw spends most of her day trolling Floridians on Twitter. Her scope of work in the DeSantis administration is so sparse, one DeSantis official was quoted as saying,
“What exactly does she do again?”
Well that Christina Pushaw called the Nazi gathering in Orlando, over the weekend, a stunt and asked if “we even know they’re Nazis?” Which prompted Florida Republicans to clean up on aisle 7. And to answer the DeSantis official’s question:
This is what she does.
See, what Christina doesn’t realize is that even “stunt” Nazis, openly brandishing violent anti-semitism on the streets of Orlando, is unacceptable in the great state of Florida. So Pushaw had a couple of choices before her. She could’ve simply said nothing. But because she is a tax-payer funded Twitter troll that option didn’t appeal to her. She could have said something generic and meaningless like most press secretaries do during tough times. For example, a simple statement that antisemitism has no place in the state of Florida. Check out Rick Scott’s tweet. His team understood the assignment. Pushaw should have put something out more forceful like the statements from Rep. Eskamani, Rep. Rayner-Goolsby, and others. But no, her little fingers with their tiny keyboard courage went full on anti-Semitism; a tweet she later deleted when she realized the Florida Jewish coalition said, Not Today.
Believe it or not, Pushaw found her way to our twitter timeline and trolled us here at We Make Florida. Her tweet referred to the blog as a cult. If projection had a twitter space, she’d rent the room.
But this isn’t the first anti-Semitic tweet Pushaw deleted from her Twitter account. Last year Christina found herself peddling in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories related to the country of Georgia. Sources close to her say she want to be the Majorie Taylor Green of Florida. And she uses the office of Press Secretary to promote her own personal profile.
Members of the Associated Press strongly condemned Pushaw’s social media bullying. Twitter even suspended her account for violating Twitter Rules and engaging in “abusive behavior”. The Associated Press CEO Daisy Veerasingham wrote to DeSantis, asking him to end Pushaw’s “harassing behavior.” She did for a second and now she’s right back at it, because
She can’t help herself.