Say what you will about Donald Trump—that he’s a “one-man crime wave,” a horrible bigot, a massive threat to democracy, a person who should have never been allowed to reproduce, a guy who clearly needs to be banned from ever setting foot in the District of Columbia again, a plumber’s worst nightmare—but his meltdowns are unintentional high comedy. Take, for instance, the one he’s currently having over being abandoned by his pals in the conservative media for Ron DeSantis, his top rival for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
On Thursday, the ex-president took to Truth Social to offer his thoughts on the Florida governor. After claiming that people have only moved to Florida in recent years because of the weather—“Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN…has the advantage of SUNSHINE”—he took his followers on a journey back to 2017. It was then, he wrote, that DeSantis came to him “in desperate shape…he was politically dead, losing in a landslide to a very good Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was loaded up with cash and great poll numbers. Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money.” In other words, this bad hombre was a loser, but with Trump’s endorsement, everything changed. “When I Endorsed him,” the former guy wrote on Thursday, “it was as though…a nuclear weapon went off.” Should a person who allegedly took classified documents about another country’s nuclear secrets to his for-profit resort and private residence after leaving the White House abstain from using such a description? Probably! Did that thought ever cross Trump’s mind? Considering there’s likely just a bunch of thumbtacks, Silly Putty, and David & Buster’s receipts rolling around up there, we’re guessing not!
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But back to DeSantis, and how Trump supposedly fished him out of the garbage disposal of political history to make him what he is today. After claiming that “by having two massive Rallies with tens of thousands of people at each one,” he was single-handedly responsible for the then gubernatorial candidate beating Democratic challenger Andrew Gillum, Trump made an…interesting announcement, saying, quite casually:
I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart. I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen.
To be clear, that was Trump apparently suggesting that he “sent in the FBI” to ensure that DeSantis won, which many have noted warrants an investigation by the people who investigate federal crimes:
cicalino on November 11st, 2022 at 23:02 UTC »
"I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart. I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen."
"He sent in the FBI" and what? Stopped the counting? So DeSantis could win?
Chaiteoir on November 11st, 2022 at 23:00 UTC »
Apparently he believes he's so bulletproof he can confess to crimes and expect his co-conspirators to be punished for it, but not him.
strongscience62 on November 11st, 2022 at 22:43 UTC »
Just some casual election interference. It's how he knows the elections are corrupt.