Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, a Democrat, has terminated his youth outreach director after a blogger dug up a number of offensive social-media posts by the former staffer. One of the posts, from more than a year ago, called for the execution of President Donald Trump.
Manny Orozco-Ballestas, 24, had only been working for the campaign for a week when conservative blogger Jacob Engels brought up a May 2017 Instagram photo where Orozco-Ballestas posed in a t-shirt that labeled as “dumb[expletive]stan” the states that went for Trump in the 2016 election. The states that went for Hillary Clinton were labeled the United States of America.
