The Florida governor has faced pressure from Trump allies to criticize the looming indictment. Trump accompanied the post with a screenshot of a tweet from the ultra-partisan liberal outlet MeidasTouch with the text: “Ron DeSantis partied with underage girls at drinking party while teaching at Georgia school.”ĭeSantis is widely expected to seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination ― which would put him in competition with Trump, who has already declared his candidacy. “I’m sure he will want to fight these misfits just like I do!” “Ron DeSanctimonious will probably find out about FALSE ACCUSATIONS & FAKE STORIES sometime in the future, as he gets older, wiser, and better known, when he’s unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman, even classmates that are ‘underage’ (or possibly a man!)” Trump wrote on his struggling social media site, TruthSocial. “And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.”ĭeSantis’ criticism of Bragg was not nearly enough to satiate Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the Florida governor ahead of DeSantis’ likely presidential bid. “But what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago, to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office,” DeSantis continued. “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” DeSantis said at an event in Florida on Monday morning. The back-and-forth between the two leading contenders for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024 highlighted the bind a likely Trump prosecution would put his rivals in as they seek to dethrone a former president with a history of demanding total loyalty from the top rungs of the GOP.Īt the same time, DeSantis suggested that Trump’s prosecution is politically motivated, noting that liberal financier George Soros, who is regularly invoked in antisemitic conspiracies on the right, had backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Ron DeSantis (R) took a not-particularly-subtle shot at former President Donald Trump on Monday ahead of Trump’s likely indictment, saying he personally would not know how to pay “hush money” to a “porn star” ― prompting Trump to fire back with a reminder of allegations that DeSantis drank with underage girls when he taught a boarding school in Georgia.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |