Pushaw, DeSantis’ press secretary, labored for the previous president of the united states of america of Georgia from 2018-2020.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday defended his press secretary, Christina Pushaw, after The Washington Post said that Pushaw this week registered as a overseas agent due to preceding paintings for the previous president of the united states of america of Georgia.
The Post file stated Pushaw “belatedly” registered as a overseas agent of Mikheil Saakashvili after operating for Saakashvili from 2018 to 2020.
The Post quoted Pushaw’s legal professional as pronouncing that the U.S. Department of Justice had contacted Pushaw to tell her of a demand to check in beneathneath the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Democrats, consisting of Florida gubernatorial applicants Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, quick criticized DeSantis and Pushaw
But requested approximately the Post story, DeSantis defined it as a “smear” towards Pushaw.
“I am now no longer deterred via way of means of any smear piece from those legacy media outlets. The simplest purpose they’re attacking her is due to the fact she does a superb job, and she’s very powerful at calling out their lies and their phony narratives. And so, every time they’re smearing somebody, you understand that man or woman is over the target, and so they’re terrified of that. I might be a whole lot greater worried with my press secretary if The Washington Post changed into writing puff portions approximately her,” DeSantis stated.
Pushaw has come to be a debatable determine as press secretary, regularly clashing with critics of DeSantis on Twitter. The biography on her Twitter profile says that she is “debunking fake Narratives approximately Florida” and the governor.
Pushaw additionally replied to the item in an interview Wednesday with WPTV News. “The governor stated it higher than I could. It is an strive at a smear. It’s non-news,” she stated, including that she “labored for a Ukrainian politician, former president of Georgia, finishing in 2020. I began out operating in Florida six months later, so it has not anything to do with my paintings in Florida.”
