DeSantis Lies About LA Dodgers’ Pride Night Turnout, Claims It Was ‘Virtually Empty’
Florida GOP Gov. and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis falsely claimed on Saturday that a group of anti-LGBTQ+ protesters caused the Los Angeles Dodgers stadium to be “virtually empty” during the team’s Friday night Pride event.
Gov. Ron DeSantis tweets false claim about a “virtually empty” Dodgers stadium. (Twitter Screenshot) In a June 17 tweet, DeSantis wrote, “Good on the thousands who showed up at Dodger Stadium to protest this anti-Catholic hate group.
The virtually empty stadium for the game itself was a powerful image – Americans are fed up with the nonsense and are fighting back.” Right-wingers opposed the event because the team used the occasion to honor the drag nun activist group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for their community activism.
Leading up to the team’s 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night, the Dodgers disinvited and then re-invited the activist group because some religious conservatives found them to be offensive to Christianity and Catholicism.
