(National Pulse) A front group being linked to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is being charged with a “desperate” dirty tricks attempt to portray former president Donald Trump as a “transgender trailblazer,” with leaflets “thanking” him for having “allowed a biological male to compete in the Miss Universe competition in Canada” over a decade ago appearing in Iowa mailboxes.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” wrote Iowa blogger Laura Belin, who first reported the delivery of the gay leaflets on Saturday. It is unclear how many homes the leaflets have been delivered to, but the imprint reads ‘Paid for by Advancing Our Values’ – a front group registered on June 27th, 2023.
The DeSantis camp recently released a gay attack ad against former President Trump, but used an anonymous Twitter account to release it. DeSantis himself then had to run to the Fox Corp-owned Outkick website to explain the now-deleted meme.
The “dirty tricks” campaign is straight out of the playbook of DeSantis campaign chief Jeff Roe – whose firm is under investigation for campaign fraud in Nevada. Roe championed Senator Ted Cruz’s own dirty tricks campaign in Iowa in 2016, which won him the state primary but ended up hurting him in the long run.
The DeSantis War Room previously attempted to tie Trump to the LGBT lobby by sharing a now-deleted video of him saying he would “do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens” and claiming it as evidence he supports Pride Month. The context of Trump’s comments, issued in response to the murder of 49 people at an Orlando gay club by a Muslim terrorist, was not mentioned.
