An activist who helped arrange a speech for Ron DeSantis at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in February, and who has donated more than $20,000 to DeSantis over the years, called former President Barack Obama a “FUCKING MUSLIM N****” on Twitter recently, Politico reported.
The Republican activist is Steven Alembik, a 67-year-old data and email services provider in Florida. He has also donated to GOP Gov. Rick Scott, who is running for Senate, and other Republican politicians in the state. Alembik told Politico he was angry when he posted the tweet and suggested he was not racist and would never say the n-word in public.
“When I write anything inflammatory, it’s because I’m seriously pissed off,” he told Politico. “I’m an emotional human being. Do I have a filter on what I say? In public, yes. Would I use that word in public? No. This is Twitter.”
Alembik reportedly deleted the tweet after speaking with Politico, but he went on to make a slew of other racist and inflammatory comments during his interview with Politico about Muslims and Jewish people. While he said he understood why the campaign may need to distance itself from him, he also bragged that he had more pictures with DeSantis “than I have with my kids.”
DeSantis’s campaign was quick to condemn Alembik’s tweet.
“We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: we adamantly denounce this sort of disgusting rhetoric,” DeSantis campaign spokesman Stephen Lawson told Politico.
This is the fifth time DeSantis or someone affiliated with his campaign has been embroiled in a race-related issue.
Another day another shooting
Rage-filled aging racist says “Twitter ain’t public!”
Please proceed, #RacistCaucus
That’s not racist. It’s just his economic anxiety creeping up again.
LLLLOL Twitter IS in public, dumbass.
Please do feel free to post them all over social media.
Um, Sir… Twitter is f’ing public, you racist ass.
This seems to be the racist excuse du jour, “I thought I was posting it in private. I wouldn’t post or say anything like that in public. So you see, I’m not a racist.”
For example, the Texas school superintendent who posted on Facebook that “when you need precision decision making, you can’t count on a black quarterback” — but it wasn’t racist because he thought he made the post private.
Social media is public. That’s right, scmbag - you might as well have stood on a street corner screaming about "the good old days when nggers weren’t taking over everything." By the way - does this sh*thead realize that President Obama isn’t in the WH now – or does that even matter?
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Meaning that he’s STILL pissed off at the Black man in the WH? Not that I care, but, according the right wing sc*mbags, they won. Libs lost. What’s he got to be pissed at??