Conservative leaders rallied Thursday against a smear campaign brought on last weekend by The Salt Lake Tribune against data guru, X influencer, and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ally DataRepublican, having eagerly made public the identity and occupation of her husband — a private citizen.
The Tribune’s smear came on the heels of a larger targeting concocted by Rolling Stone aimed at revealing her real name — Jennica Pounds — along with her background and home as a proud Utahan and former tech worker.
In the letter, over two dozen conservative leaders blasted The Tribune’s work as a “gratuitous and outrageous attack” on Pounds and her husband, “portray[ing] her as the real mastermind behind DOGE’s cuts.”
The signatories went onto demand the paper and all other smear merchants “ease their act of personal destruction”…
