Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Hillary Clinton endorsing Ron DeSantis is AI generated. (Read More Here).
On April 11, 2023, a video began to spread on social media platforms that claimed 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, had endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, for president.
“You can tell a lot about a candidate by what opposition party leaders say about them…,” Twitter account @Ramble_Rants posted. Attached was a video that claimed to show Clinton saying that she liked DeSantis to MSNBC:
You know, people might be surprised to hear me say this. But I actually like Ron DeSantis a lot. I know. I’d say he’s just the kind of guy this country needs, and I mean that.
If Ron DeSantis got installed as president, I’d be fine with that. I mean, the one thing I’d say about Ron is that when push comes to shove, Ron does what he’s told. And I can’t think of anything more important than that. Hail Hydra.
According to Know Your Meme, “Hail Hydra” is the catchphrase of a fictional terrorist organization in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Besides spreading on Twitter, the video has also been posted on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.
In replies to the Twitter post, @Ramble_Rants said the video had been faked with the help of another user, @C3PMeme. That account’s website also contained fake videos of U.S. President Joe Biden, among other public figures, as well as other fake MSNBC footage.
Ron DeSantis has praised former US president Donald Trump for his “unique star power”, derision of the media as “the enemy of the American people” and decisive role in helping DeSantis win election as a state governor.
The flattering comments appear in DeSantis’s book The Courage to Be Free, obtained by the Guardian prior to publication. They are likely to disappoint Republicans urging the Florida governor to jump into the 2024 Republican primary race soon so he can aggressively take on the former president.
And whereas the former vice-president Mike Pence’s memoir offered a detailed account of his break with Trump over the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, DeSantis makes no mention of the deadly insurrection in his 288-page tome.
Democrats are likely to seize on the book as evidence that potential Republican candidates are still wary of assailing Trump directly because of his power over the party base. Last week Nikki Haley, a former US ambassador to the UN, entered the primary with a speech that mentioned Trump by name only once and did not rebuke him.
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