Senior Advisor to the 2024 Donald Trump presidential campaign Jason Miller dumped a scathing reprimand on the front porch of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, saying the Governor’s attempt to smear Congressman Byron Donalds is a major mistake for which, Miller predicts, DeSantis will pay dearly.
The defense arises out of a single objection Donalds made to the proposed changes in the Florida education curriculum, with Donalds — a Black Republican — objecting to the much pilloried idea that slaves learned skills that “benefitted” them personally later in life.
DeSantis’s team “smeared” Donalds, according to Miller, for the Congressman’s sole objection in his otherwise agreeable stance on DeSantis’s “anti-woke” education agenda.
Statement on the attempts to smear Congressman @ByronDonalds: https://t.co/GcUx3iMH8k pic.twitter.com/gHPMFq04om
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) July 27, 2023
Donalds objected to the same point that drove myriad Democrats to rip DeSantis, including Vice President Kamala Harris who called the historical revisionism an effort at “gaslighting.”
[NOTE: Donalds and Harris do not, to put it mildly, agree on very much.]
To suggest that enslaved people somehow benefited from slavery is not only misleading, it is false. This is revisionist history. pic.twitter.com/2j0sPWP5O8
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 21, 2023
Miller called the move a “disgrace” and warns DeSantis that smearing the likes of Donalds — whom he calls a “conservative hero” — is tantamount to campaigning for Joe Biden.
Miller writes that DeSantis’s “misguided attacks are only helping Joe Biden” and says the Governor had better “look in the mirror” before not just 2024 is “dead for him,” but 2028 as well.
Donalds himself was astonished at DeSantis’s reaction, and called the Governor out for ignoring the truth — he says “disingenuous” — in order to score political points.
“What’s crazy to me,” Donalds wrote, “is I expressed support for the vast majority of the new African American history standards and happened to oppose one sentence that seemed to dignify the skills gained by slaves as a result of their enslavement.”
The Congressman continued: “Anyone who can’t accurately interpret what I said is disingenuous and is desperately attempting to score political points.”
