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Anthony Sabatini

Anthony Frank Sabatini (born October 20, 1988) is an American far-right politician, attorney, and Florida Army National Guard officer serving as a Lake County commissioner since 2024. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022. Once a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, Sabatini has been a critic of Donald Trump since his endorsement of Daniel Webster over Sabatini in 2024.

A native of New York, Sabatini graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree and received his Juris Doctor from the Levin College of Law in 2017. While in law school, Sabatini was elected to the city commission of Eustis, Florida in 2016; serving until his resignation to run for the Florida House of Representatives in 2018. In 2022, he was an unsuccessful candidate in Florida's 7th congressional district Republican primary, losing to Cory Mills. In 2024, Sabatini was an unsuccessful candidate for Florida's 11th congressional district, withdrawing his candidacy after President Trump endorsed his opponent. That same day, he filed to run for Lake County Commission.

In August 2024, Sabatini narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Doug Shields in the Lake County Commission's 1st district election. In November 2024, he considered running for Florida's 6th congressional district in the 2025 special election until President Trump endorsed state senator Randy Fine. Later that month, Sabatini reaffirmed his intention to run for Congress in the future.

Sabatini has espoused a variety of right-wing stances, including opposition to abortion, gun control, DEI, and LGBTQ rights. His more controversial views include his support for Francisco Franco and Christian nationalism, his promotion of climate change denial and false claims of electoral fraud in 2020, and his opposition to vaccination.

Sabatini was born in Smithtown, New York, in 1988 and moved with his family to Florida the following year. In a high school photo, Sabatini and a friend were pictured in blackface. In his freshman year of college, he was photographed in brownface. He earned bachelor's degrees in philosophy and history from the University of Florida in 2012 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law in 2017.

In 2023, The Daily Beast revealed Sabatini plagiarized his undergraduate thesis, copying many statements from Wikipedia.

Sabatini is an infantry officer in the Florida Army National Guard. He was appointed to the City of Eustis Code Enforcement Board and later elected to the Eustis City Commission in 2016 and resigned from the office on April 30, 2018, to focus on his campaign for the Florida House of Representatives.

Sabatini defeated Monica Wofford and Shannon Elswick, to win the August 28, 2018 Republican primary, winning 46.7% of the vote. In the November 6, 2018 general election, Sabatini defeated Democrat Cynthia Brown, taking 56.48% of the vote.

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