MAGA Influencer Behind Deep State Conspiracy Theory Works for the Pentagon

OCTAVIO JONES / AFP via Getty Images Jennica Pounds, a MAGA influencer who posts AI slop under the alias DataRepublican, has been secretly working for the Department of Defense this whole time. Up until June, Pounds was a member of the credentialed Pentagon press corps. She had not disclosed her new gig with the Pentagon. The revelation came during an online MAGA-on-MAGA spat in which Pounds accused the “Deep State” — later revealed to be Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers — of attempting to…