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Calling Biden’s ‘Minister of Truth’! The Lincoln Project, Nikki Fried blasted for spreading FAKE DeSantis email

May 14, 2022 | | Print Article

If the Biden administration wants to put Nina Jankowicz, the director of the newly formed Disinformation Governance Board (a.k.a., the “Ministry of Truth”) to work, it may want to point her in the direction of Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services — and Florida gubernatorial candidate — Nikki Fried, and the scandal-ridden Lincoln Project, who, together, spread a fake email, purportedly sent to voters from Governor Ron DeSantis, across the Twitter-verse.

In a series of mostly now-deleted tweets, Fried’s communications director Keith Edwards and Nikki Fried herself shared and re-shared a tweet from The Lincoln Project, which posted a screenshot of what appeared to be an email in which Gov. DeSantis asked potential voters, “If I were to run for President will you support me?”

Edwards was quick to retweet the hoax, stating, “That’s an odd question to ask if you’re not planning on running for president.” Edwards confidently tagged DeSantis and DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw on his retort.

In case she missed it, an eagle-eyed Twitter user was quick to bring the fake news to the attention of DeSantis spokesperson, Christina Pushaw, and tagged Greg Price in on the tweet.

Predicted the user: “$50 says @TwitterSupport will do nothing about @NikkiFried, @keithedwards or @ProjectLincoln spreading this FALSE garbage about @GovRonDeSantis.”

The user then asked Pushaw and Price, “ya’ll want in on this? Easy fifty bucks! You’ll be able to buy like… 2 gallons of gas!”

Pushaw was already on it.

“This is completely fake,” Pushaw said in response to Edwards’s now-deleted tweet. “I would say ‘you are better than this Keith,’ but… you did work for John Weaver’s Lincoln Project.”

In response to David Abrams who mocked The Lincoln Project’s tweet as being “as fake as it gets,” Pushaw noted that Abrams “actually works” on the campaign.

 

Still, the user offering “an easy fifty bucks” got Pushaw’s attention.

“Wow,” she tweeted. “@NikkiFried amplified this disinformation from the John Weaver Project, which staged a fake white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia of all places last year,” adding that she was waiting for a local Florida news outlet to report on the “scandal.”

The brewing scandal didn’t escape the notice of the ever-vigilant Libs of TikTok account, which correctly predicted what would come next.

“They are so petrified of @GovRonDeSantis that they resort to creating a FAKE EMAIL in an attempt to ruin his credibility and create division,” it tweeted. “This is so pathetic. Here’s a screenshot for when it gets deleted.”

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1525189728173142017?s=20&t=JwPgoU663OVekwctngV0vQ

And delete it they did, though Edwards took a rather passive-aggressive path to redemption.

“fyi was made aware i tweeted a scam email,” he announced in all-small letters. “Deleted the tweet. Apologies.”

Then he spread the fake info again, claiming he was reposting it “for transparency.”

“A fake email that Keith pretended was real,” Pushaw stated.

And that’s when Washington Examiner journalist Jerry Dunleavy chimed in.

“Nina,” he tweeted, “I have another one for you ma’am.”

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