Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday refused to condemn a post that Elon Musk made on X endorsing an antisemitic tweet that alluded to a white supremacist conspiracy theory.
During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Jake Tapper asked DeSantis whether he would condemn Musk’s post that he said “openly endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are conspiring to replace white Americans with minority immigrants,” noting that major companies such as Apple and Disney pulled their ads from X in response to Musk’s endorsement.
“I did not see the comment,” DeSantis said. “I know that Elon has had a target on his back ever since he purchased Twitter, because I think he’s taking it in the direction that a lot of people who are used to controlling the narrative don’t like.”
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Ron DeSantis on Sunday refused to condemn a post that Elon Musk made on X endorsing an antisemitic tweet that alluded to a white supremacist conspiracy theory.
Tapper then read the post aloud, in which a user said he was “deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest s— now about western Jewish populations” realizing that “minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.”
The White House has condemned Musk’s post, saying it’s an “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate” that “runs against our core values as Americans.”
And I encourage, in fact, I urge advertisers like IBM, which has done so, to withdraw from X and to send a message to Elon Musk that hate has no place on this powerful megaphone,” he added.
“And as you know, the surge of antisemitic, anti-Muslim, white supremacist, anti-Black sentiment on social media has been an incubator, in fact, an accelerant to more than just speech — action that constitutes hate crimes.”
Asked to respond to the ongoing backlash over Musk’s post, including Blumenthal’s remarks, Twitter’s press email automatically replied: “Busy now, please check back later.”
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