Despite suffering a crushing defeat in the polls in August, Republican Valentina Gomez, famous for her “Don’t be weak and gay” campaign video, is running again, and there’s no way she could pretend to be the next controversial figure. A video of him doing so has become a hot topic. execute immigrants.
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On Dec. 18, after losing the 2024 Missouri Secretary of State primary earlier this year with only 7.5% of the vote, Gomez moved to Texas to run for the Texas-held 2nd District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Then he announced. Representative Dan Crenshaw since 2019.
Gomez, who has caused controversy in the past by posting videos on social media of herself firing a gun and setting LGBTQ+ books on fire with a flamethrower, made the announcement in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter). and criticized the old navy there. Seal and House Speaker Mike Johnson captioned the video: “I’m not afraid of the PDF, I’m not afraid of criminals, I’m not afraid of the scammers in DC. I’m only afraid of God.”
“I’m running for Congress in Texas and I’m going to take down the RINOs and the dinosaurs once and for all because Congress is full of crooks like Speaker Johnson, who is funding Ukraine and destroying the nation. Because he’s just a little guy who doesn’t have the ball to betray, Dan Crenshaw, who’s only good at betraying the American people and his fellow Navy SEALs every chance he gets,” Gomez said in the video.
However, the 25-year-old political hopeful’s announcement has been overshadowed by a controversial video posted on December 26 in which Gomez appears to be performing a mock execution of an immigrant. The video, which has been removed from X, shows her “firing a handgun into the back of the head of a dummy doll tied to a chair with a black bag over its head,” according to X Company. independent person.
“Public executions of lawbreakers who rape and murder Americans are very simple. They don’t deserve to be deported. They deserve to be abolished,” she said in the video.
The video was flagged by X for potentially violating the social media platform’s rules against “violent language” and is no longer visible on X at the time of publication.
The League of Latin American Citizens, the country’s largest Latino civil rights group, criticized Gomez’s video, saying this type of “alarmism” had led to “deadly consequences” in the past.
“LULAC condemns violent crimes in our country and expresses our deepest condolences to the victims and their loved ones,” the group’s president, Roman Palomares, said in a statement obtained. independent person.
“But we believe in Christian principles of justice, not retaliation. Using public executions as a hook to politically motivated messages incites blind hatred. This kind of ‘s words are intended to appeal to an extreme class of individuals who believe the lie that “immigrants are here to harm others.” ”
This isn’t the first time Gomez has tried to raise her profile by making a controversial video. In the past, she has tried to attract right-wing voters by making videos that portray homosexuals as weak (via newsweek).
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