Omar Navarro was charged with misusing marketing campaign funds after unsuccessfully working towards U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., in 4 consecutive congressional elections. However Waters didn’t make an internet publish to discourage individuals from following Navarro, as social media customers claimed.
“DO NOT FOLLOW @REALOMARNAVARRO! He’s a younger Hispanic Republican spreading lies on Instagram,” a screenshot on Instagram purporting to be from Waters’ official social media account says. “He claims Democrats have failed Hispanic America. He’s additionally pro-life and pro-Trump. Why is he not suspended? Do NOT comply with him!”
(Screengrab from Instagram)
The publish didn’t embody a time stamp and isn’t on Water’s official X and Instagram accounts. We additionally discovered no media stories about it. And Waters didn’t delete any X posts within the final 30 days in response to Social Blade, a social media analytics platform.
J. Ellis McGinnis, Waters’ chief of workers, instructed PolitiFact in an e-mail that the publish was pretend.
We charge the declare that Maxine Waters instructed her followers on X to not comply with Omar Navarro as a result of he’s a Hispanic Republican Pants on Fireplace!
PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
