My expanded response to CNN reporters’ questions about a DeSantis appointee’s endorsement of “Irish slaves” disinformation

“What to expect at my hands.” — Oliver Cromwell (1650). Within three years his promise had been reneged on as his administration widened their penal transportation policy in Ireland. Source: From Certaine acts and declarations made by the Ecclesiasticall Congregation of the Archbishops, Bishops, and other prelates met at Clonmacnoise, the 4 day of December 1649. Together with A declaration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1650)

Last week I was contacted by a CNN journalist about a recent Ron DeSantis appointee who has previously endorsed “Irish slaves” disinformation in an anti-Critical Race Theory broadcast. You can read this report here. Below are the expanded versions of the answers I sent back to help…