When she was doxxed and threatened earlier in 2022, the proprietor of the popular conservative social media account, Libs of TikTok, said Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave her a place to stay.
On a Tuesday episode of Fox Nation’s “Tucker Carlson Today,” Chaya Raichik chatted with Fox News anchor and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson. Throughout 2022, she stated she got frequent death threats from Twitter users for tweeting TikTok videos of liberal individuals supporting gender theory, pronouns, drag queen story hour, and other related topics.
During Raichik’s prior attempts to stay anonymous, Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz published a story in April that exposed Raichik’s name and first linked to her real estate website, which listed her identify and home address.
“When I was doxxed, someone from Ron DeSantis’ team called me and she said, ‘The governor wanted me to give you a message. He said if you don’t feel safe — you or your family — if you need a place to go, to hide, to stay, you can come to the governor’s mansion.’ She said, ‘We have a guest house for you and you can stay as long as you need,’” Raichik told Carlson.
“I was almost in tears. The governor of Florida, like he has nothing bigger to do,” she continued. “I’m living in California, and he took time out of his — I’m assuming — extremely busy schedule … to send someone to call me to make sure I’m safe. Unreal … It was incredible, I don’t even have the words for it, so grateful.” (RELATED: Libs Of TikTok Removed From Social Media Tool For ‘Inappropriate Use’)
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JUST IN: Ron DeSantis offered @libsoftiktok founder Chaya Raichik to stay at governor's mansion if she felt unsafe after being doxxed
"He said, 'If you [or your family don't feel safe] you can come to the governor's mansion […] You can come and stay as long as you need.'" pic.twitter.com/wnQ6hgGmJU
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) December 27, 2022
In June, Raichik tagged the FBI in a Twitter post with a screenshot of someone alleging they mailed her a pipe bomb for supposedly “supporting Nazi bigots.” She then reported that she had gotten a dozen additional threats from Twitter users accusing her of being a “domestic terrorist extremist.”
Twitter did not immediately remove the threatening message or ban the user even though it clearly goes against their guidelines.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.
