Trump Unloads on DeSantis AGAIN

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Former President Trump unloaded on Florida Governor DeSantis today in an email to supporters. Here’s the email in its entirety. Read it for yourself, and then I have a few questions.

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NewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post (bring back Col!), is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations, who didn’t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors, whose overall numbers for a Republican, were just average—middle of the pack—including COVID, and who has the advantage of SUNSHINE, where people from badly run States up North would go no matter who the Governor was, just like I did!

Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017—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, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win. I didn’t know Adam so I said, “Let’s give it a shot, Ron.” When I Endorsed him, it was as though, to use a bad term, a nuclear weapon went off. Years later, they were the exact words that Adam Putnam used in describing Ron’s Endorsement. He said, “I went from having it made, with no competition, to immediately getting absolutely clobbered after your Endorsement.” I then got Ron by the “Star” of the Democrat Party, Andrew Gillum (who was later revealed to be a “Crack Head”), by having two massive Rallies with tens of thousands of people at each one. 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…

And now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, “I’m only focused on the Governor’s race, I’m not looking into the future.” Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer.

This is just like 2015 and 2016, a Media Assault (Collusion!), when Fox News fought me to the end until I won, and then they couldn’t have been nicer or more supportive. The Wall Street Journal loved Low Energy Jeb Bush, and a succession of other people as they rapidly disappeared from sight, finally falling in line with me after I easily knocked them out, one by one. We’re in exactly the same position now. They will keep coming after us, MAGA, but ultimately, we will win. Put America First and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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So there it is. Trump, who said he voted for DeSantis in Florida’s gubernatorial election on Tuesday, attacked DeSantis for the third time in a week. The first was a few days before the election at a rally for Marco Rubio. “Let’s see, there it is,” Trump said, pointing to a screen with some poll numbers displayed. “Trump at 71. Ron DeSanctimonious at 10 percent. Mike Pence at 7 — oh, Mike’s doing better than I thought.”

Related: Did Trump Just Go Too Far by Threatening DeSantis Not To Run Against Him?

Then, on his private plane heading home from a rally in Ohio, Trump threatened DeSantis: “If he runs, he runs,” Trump said. “If he did run, I will tell you things about him that won’t be very flattering. I know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign.”

Thus far, DeSantis has not responded to any of the attacks and has been cagey when asked whether he plans to run for president in 2024. My colleague Spencer Brown at Townhall has a rundown of conservatives who were not happy with Trump’s attacks here if you care to read them.

Exit questions: Does this help or hurt Trump? Does it help or hurt DeSantis? Does it make you less likely to support one or the other? Should DeSantis credit Trump for his success? Are the attacks on DeSantis’s COVID-19 policies fair? Should DeSantis respond in kind or continue to lie low? Is Trump the only person who can carry the America First mantle?

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