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Talk report last week Robert Herring, Trumpy boss of the far-right channel One America News, showed some love for Ron DeSantis, cutting a check for $20,000 for the Florida governor’s re-elected PAC and announcing it he wants to see the governor as someone who knows Trump. .
But that admiration may not be entirely mutual from the governor’s camp.
DeSantis deputy spokesman Jeremy Redfern — an outspoken person on Twitter — has a history of relentlessly throwing away MAGA cable outlets, especially in the wake of the Capitol uprising.
“OAN. The Most Trusted Leader in Fake News,” Redfern posted on January 6, 2021, reacting to a Twitter user sharing an image of One America News claiming Trump won in a landslide. “This is an OAN reporter. She was delusional,” he tweeted two weeks later in response to then-OAN host Christina Bobb’s claim that ‘Biden will never be president. ” (Bobb finally gave up OAN arrive work for Trump.)
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Elsewhere, in October 2021, Redfern announced: “I’ve never watched OANN in my life.” So sad for Herring! (OAN boss did not respond to a request for comment.)
The former Florida Department of Health spokesperson joined the DeSantis team this year after notorious troll Christina Pushaw leaves to join the governor’s campaign.
In typical DeSantis World fashion, Redfern wrote to Confider: “You’re right. I was wrong – the Daily Beast is actually the head of the Fake News Team. I won’t make that mistake again.”
The DeSantis team then quietly proceeded to delete each of these tweets, plus a tweet from 2020 that previously removed Confider: “OAN. (Something that starts with O) qAnon Network? Help me out here.”
Redfern did not respond when Confider followed up to ask why he was deleting the posts.
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