A ways-left Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., broke his silence on Tuesday after an unearthed social media put up of rap lyrics activate a firestorm of controversy.
Frost, who not too long ago made headlines for flying to El Salvador to talk over with deported unlawful immigrant and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was once closely criticized on social media after a seemingly cryptic tweet from 2016 resurfaced studying “f—– wit my gang gon get u spilled.”
The put up was once in line with tweets together with one by means of an account named “Hits LeBlunt.” The road is from the track “Gang” by means of rapper “Max P.”
The put up generated a spate of outrage and condemnation, with many announcing it was once unbecoming of a member of Congress to have one of these put up on his reputable account.
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A ways-left Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Florida, (left) broke his silence on Tuesday after an unearthed social media put up of rap lyrics activate a firestorm of controversy with even Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele (proper) weighing in. (Frost For Congress Alex Peña/Getty Pictures)
Even Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has emerged as a key best friend of the Trump management, weighed in at the controversy by means of posting a shoulder shrug emoji.
Fairly than deleting the put up, Frost merely spoke back to the talk by means of announcing, “By no means concept Max P lyrics I tweeted at 19 would get such a lot consideration from MAGA.”
Frost additionally tweeted out “I’ve simplest ever been in a single gang” with a picture of him in his highschool band.
Frost stored going, tweeting once more on Tuesday, “Stay taking a look thru my outdated posts. There needs to be some extra humorous stuff in there. You’ll want to tag me.”
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks to Kilmar Abrego Garcia (Reuters)
Frost’s responses, on the other hand, didn’t quell the talk, with customers proceeding to bash him for the tweet and lots of even posting AI meme pictures appearing Frost with tattoos studying “DeMS-13.”
Some looked as if it would in finding the talk humorous, similar to conservative influencer Benny Johnson, who posted a screenshot of Bukele’s roast of Frost with the caption, “by no means deleting this app.”
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Conservative communicator Steve Visitor posted a screenshot from City Dictionary defining “spilled” as “To be murdered. Possibly relating to blood being spilled.”
Common conservative account “Finish Wokeness” responded to Frost’s 2016 tweet by means of announcing, “DeMS-13 or Tren Dem Aragua?”
Others, like the preferred account “DataRepublican,” expressed that the tweet was once now not becoming for a member of Congress.
“You’re a Congressman. You are now not a gangster. You are now not being cool or edgy. You might be held to a prime usual, as a consultant of the mightiest country at the Earth. Do higher,” the account commented.
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Frost was once one in every of 5 Democratic lawmakers who visited El Salvador remaining week to suggest for the discharge and go back of Abrego Garcia from the Salvadoran mega jail referred to as the “Terrorist Confinement Heart” (CECOT).
Posting on X from El Salvador, the congressman accused President Donald Trump of “illegally arresting, jailing, & deporting folks and not using a due procedure.”
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“We will have to cling the Management in command of those unlawful acts and insist Kilmar’s liberate. These days it’s him, the next day it may well be any individual else,” stated Frost.
But even so Frost, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Reps. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., Maxine Dexter, D-Ore., and Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., additionally flew to El Salvador on behalf of Abrego Garcia.