A Democratic National Committee staff member is believed to be behind a profane X post targeting White House adviser Stephen Miller that was published from the DNC’s official account.
Paulina Mangubat, 30, a DNC senior digital strategist who previously worked as digital content and creative director for the Democrats, serves on the team responsible for managing the party’s @TheDemocrats X account, which has 2.4 million followers.
Her LinkedIn profile says she graduated from Barnard College in 2017 and previously worked as digital and creative director for woke Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
The online kerfuffle started when Miller mocked the DNC’s May 27 post featuring an image of Democratic Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico with the text “Fired up. Ready to go. It’s time to take back Texas.”
He replied to the post, “The Democrats have made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate,” implying Talarico is trans.
A short time later, the Dems’ official account fired back, “shut up you ugly f–k” in a post that has not been deleted.
Later that day, Mangubat posted a response to the thread on her personal X account “Team just ratioed Stephen Miller, who is ugly, evil, cruel, and bald,” she wrote, referencing a phenomenon in which a social media post receives more comments than likes or shares.
Katie Miller, Stephen Miller’s wife, waded into the fracas and identified Mangubat as the staffer behind the potty-mouth post attacking her husband.
She chastised Mangubat as “unmarried with no kids” and encouraged her to come forward as the person who wrote the incendiary missive.
“This is what a sad, unhappy female Liberal looks like. It’s why Pew reports 50% of them have been diagnosed with a mental condition,” she shot back in defense of her hubby.
Mangubat responded with a photo of her trying on wedding gowns and disclosed her impending nuptials.
“Well, now seems like a good time to share that I’m getting married! We just put down the deposit on the venue and bought my dress lol.”
Just 48 hours earlier, the DNC social team posted a divisive, politically-charged Memorial Day post in which they took shots at President Trump, and then deleted it and replaced it with something more inclusive when they were hit with a bipartisan wave of criticism.
The DNC didn’t immediately return a message.
