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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is facing accusations of faking a debris backdrop for a press event regarding Hurricane Milton recovery efforts.

A clip posted online on Sunday shows pieces of debris being added to a pile behind the podium where DeSantis was set to make his address in Treasure Island. It is unclear whether the governor set up in front of an existing pile or why the debris was being moved.

Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the governor had been caught "adding debris behind [the] podium" before his news conference.

"Ron has no shame—he's spent weeks accusing everyone else of politicizing this disaster while ordering workers to window dress his press conference," Fried said.

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 136 points 1 month ago (7 children)

He is "accused" of piling debris behind his podium but there's literally video evidence of exactly that happening.

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Typically when you're clearing debris, you pile into one central location so it can get loaded into trucks and hauled off. I'm sure ole Meat Ball Ron wanted a dramatic backdrop. More than one thing can be true.

[–] Steve 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is most likely. It would've been easier to simply setup the stage where they were already collecting the debris to be hauled away.

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