Posted on 08/07/2023 5:47:14 PM PDT by conservative98
The Donald Trump campaign isn’t letting Ron DeSantis’ assertion that the result of the 2020 Presidential Election was legitimate after all go unchallenged.
The former President’s Make America Great Again super PAC claims the Florida Governor and 2024 Primary rival “groveled” to NBC News by saying Joe Biden is the rightful President.
“Ron DeSantis will say whatever he can to keep his campaign afloat, even though he was one of America’s leading election critics until his campaign needed a ‘reset.’ Ron will do whatever it takes to hoodwink a few more donors into giving to his failed campaign,” claimed Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman for Make America Great Again Inc.
In the interview that aired Monday, DeSantis said Trump “didn’t have control over his own government” and “helped facilitate that whole set of circumstances” that led to the loss to Biden. In a counterargument, MAGA Inc. produced a series of vintage DeSantis quotes where he supported the former President’s false claim that the election was not legitimate.
“I would just urge everyone to donate to the President’s legal relief. I know you’ve talked about a number of suits and I think some of those have promise,” DeSantis said during a November 2020 episode of the “Ingraham Angle” on Fox News.
On that same episode, he urged viewers to go further.
“I would also tell them, especially if you’re in those states that have Republican Legislatures like Pennsylvania and Michigan and all these places, call your state Representatives and your state Senators. Under Article II of the Constitution, presidential electors are done by Legislatures and the schemes they create in the framework. If there’s departure from that and they’re not following the law, if they’re ignoring law, then they can provide remedies as well, so I would exhaust every option to make sure we have a fair count.”
In that interview, the Governor also wouldn’t call Biden the “rightful winner.”
“Fox called Arizona very early. Now, the President is closing in. There’s over 300,000 ballots outstanding, he’s down only 46,000, and yet that is called for Biden. Meanwhile, North Carolina, the President is up 76,000 votes and there is at most 150,000 votes outstanding and probably not even close to that much, and yet that’s not called for the President? So, there’s been a double standard and there seems to be there’s been more of a rush to call states for Biden and to create a narrative that Biden is the rightful winner,” DeSantis said, in the same “Ingraham Angle” episode.
DeSantis also would not immediately call Biden the President-elect.
“It’s not for me to do, but here’s what I would say: Obviously we did our thing in Florida, the Electoral College voted. What’s going to happen is going to happen. But I can tell you I think a lot of the frustration for folks who supported the President is, we were four years with people not accepting him,” the Governor said in December 2020.
Ron DeSantis keeps flip-flopping whether it's Ukraine or the 2020 election. Voters are picking up on his dishonesty and that's why his campaign is failing. pic.twitter.com/S9vz0baznu— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) August 7, 2023
Newsmax video at the link.
That’s exacty right.
Ronald Herbert Walker DeSantis will say anything you pay him to say.
What a disgrace. He has really gone over to the dark side. Wow.
In the interview that aired Monday, DeSantis said Trump “didn’t have control over his own government” and “helped facilitate that whole set of circumstances” that led to the loss to Biden.
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Has DeSantos provided a list of names of people that will make a difference in DC? Washington DC politics is much different than Florida politics.
Or is DeSantis still stuck on the “Florida way” and we’ll get rid of the two system DOJ with only rhetoric and no specifics.
And he's entirely right.
CARES Act was written by Pelosi. Trump didn't care. He signed it.
Trump/CDC/Fauci lockdowns ensured 2020 election laws would be changed. Trump didn't care.
Trump stupidly told Republican voters to vote only in person on Election Day so only Democrats benefited from GOTV mail-in voting.
Rep. Massie criticized the CARES Act. Trump angrily demanded that Massie be tossed from the Republican Party.
If 2020 was stolen, it's because Trump left the garage door open and went on vacation.
Yes, I’m afraid DeSantis has cooked his goose. It’s a shame. He showed lots of promise.
You said it!
Agree!
Maybe Trump could use his platform to stick up for the J6ers rotting in jails.
I can’t recall a politician taking such stupid stands. Maybe Romney, or Bush “Read my lips, no new taxes.” In any case, RDS will now have to lay low for a decade. If he does well in Florida he can come back. Some day, but not now.
If 2020 was stolen, it’s because Trump left the garage door open and went on vacation.
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If you’re in the media how do maximize the profitability of the Trump Era? because without Trump........boring.
Here’s how the Establishment of the United States will do it:
2016 rigged for Trump
2020 rigged for Biden
2024 rigged for Trump
Thinking that the PTB are going to have Harris as President in 2026......is completely laughable.
P.S. How much is your betting offer on the 2024 election?
Because after Christmas......”I’m in.”
Ronald Reagan.
He made them pay their own defense while the RNC and PACS pay his. He could have pardoned every one of them but said, “screw em.” He could care less about them.
what’s the CARES act
Re: 15 - be ready for the claims that “he didn’t know who to pardon!”. Even after going through the list of people arrested prior to President Trump leaving office and posting that number, the usual posters made excuse after excuse for him not issuing pardons to selected people.
Thanks for your post. I’m fighting to keep FR a forum for DeSantis as well as Trump
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