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DeSantis campaign on undisclosed flights report: ‘more Trump-legacy media collusion’
thehill ^ | Sept 14, 2023 | Miranda Nazzaro

Posted on 09/14/2023 7:40:06 PM PDT by backpacker_c

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) campaign is firing back on a report Thursday that DeSantis, as governor-elect, took multiple undisclosed private flights, claiming it “sounds like more Trump-legacy media collusion.”

“It’s apparent the legacy media realizes that Ron DeSantis has the best chance to beat Joe Biden and the Democrats.”

An investigation by The Washington Post, published Thursday, found DeSantis apparently took at least six undisclosed trips on private jets and accepted lodging and dining from wealthy donors in late 2018. The Post reported the trips took place between DeSantis’s November election and inauguration but were not reported as gifts or campaign contributions.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blametrump; corruption; desantis; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; trump; trumpsfault; unreporteddonations
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Well, it should be easy for desanctimonious to show he wasn't corrupt and being bought off by big money with freebies....

All he has to do is show the bank docs showing he paid for the trips and other things, right?

Instead, they are blaiming the reports on Trump...

Hmmmmm.....

Sounds like it was a bribe, and desantis doesn't have receipts.

1 posted on 09/14/2023 7:40:06 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

He does seem to have commonality with godfather 10% Joey.. Might be a religious tradition..


2 posted on 09/14/2023 7:45:04 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: backpacker_c
DeSantis is burning his bridges. The smart thing would have been to disband his campaign and throw his support to President Trump. What could possibly be DeSantis's reason for staying in the race? DeSantis fell prey to Deep State operatives, financiers, and Washington insiders.

3 posted on 09/14/2023 7:45:39 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Ron hates Trump. He just accepted Trumps help to get elected because desantis is all about desantis. If that werent true desantis would NEVER have lied to his voters and instead he would have Kept his promise to FL voters and not run. No way Ron could sell The lie he supports Trump.


4 posted on 09/14/2023 7:52:01 PM PDT by b4me
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To: backpacker_c

So Trump or the Washington Post (or both) is trying to throw dirt on DeSantis over some trips he might have made?

Sounds like Fake News to me.


5 posted on 09/14/2023 7:53:52 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Sounds like Fake News to me.

LOL, Talk about denial. All desanctomonius has to do is show the receipts. I wonder why he won't do that? Well, not really. We all know what a slime-ball he is.
6 posted on 09/14/2023 7:58:34 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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All desanctomonius has to do is show the receipts.

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Receipts for what? Do you know? Please tell me. Where did he go? Who paid for these trips?

Oh I see. You believe the Washington Compost. They don’t lie, right?

Carry on.


7 posted on 09/14/2023 8:03:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Here's that entire quote:

“This story sounds like more Trump-legacy media collusion following the recent intimate dinner between Trump campaign officials and national press,” said Andrew Romeo, a communications director for the DeSantis campaign. “It’s apparent the legacy media realizes that Ron DeSantis has the best chance to beat Joe Biden and the Democrats.”

Yeah, because we know the media is pushing Trump, because like Hillary, Trump could never win. Is the FBI they working on another insurance policy too? 🤣🤣🤣

Are the GOPe Uni-party members working with the Democrats to steal another presidential election? 🤣🤣🤣

Has Ron DeSantis proclaimed that Ukraine has already won the conflict against Russia too?

8 posted on 09/14/2023 8:04:51 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Oh I see. You believe the Washington Compost. They don’t lie, right?

Look at you, you post from these kind of sources daily. And then you have the gull to mention integrity in one of your posts. Like I said before, the slime factor is strong in you and desanctomonious. That is why you are losing so badly in every single state. Honestly, I don't know what you hope to achieve. Other then proving what a dirt bag you are.
9 posted on 09/14/2023 8:10:51 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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Why couldn't Andrew Romeo, a communications director for the DeSantis campaign, just deny the claim? Why did he have to even mention Trump?

If you think Andrew wasn't lying, why would he use the language he did; This story sounds like? He obviously has no proof with the qualifiers he used. That is called a deflection response, to avoid answering the question? What's he hiding?

10 posted on 09/14/2023 8:14:27 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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LOL

desantis supporters being deranged and pushing desantis does no wrong....

washpo got flight records and other things showing desantis took those flights..

Stuff like that are reportable, for transparancy purposes so people aren’t being bribed or given ‘favors’ in return for ‘consideration’ at a later time..

Now we have examples of why desantis got the florida legislature to hide information on his trips ‘because of security’....

Otherwise the peons of florida might see how easily desantis was being bought off for, who is bribing desantis, and who desantis owes favors to.


11 posted on 09/14/2023 8:15:02 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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DeSantis et al sound really weak here


12 posted on 09/14/2023 8:22:26 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
DeSantis fell prey to Deep State operatives, financiers, and Washington insiders.

Maybe he sold out. Or maybe he never was who we thought he was. Either way, now he definitely isn't who we thought he was, he's just a GOPe / Uniparty role-player, saying what he's told in hopes that he benefits from whatever nefarious plot they have to destroy Trump can.

It's a shame, I really liked him and I looked forward to supporting him in 2028. Oh well.

13 posted on 09/14/2023 8:27:12 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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In a statement shared with The Hill and The Post, Romeo said, “All travel and events you mention – from almost five years ago – were compliant and received proper payment.”...The Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Looks like the Post rattled off a list of possible campaign finance "crimes" which was responded to by the DeSantis people, and, of course, with the additional outcry from a Trump campaign advisor, Cheung (who has worked for McCain, Schwarzneggar and Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner). After that, the Post seems to have nothing to say.

The bold print is my emphasis.

14 posted on 09/14/2023 8:27:41 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

His 19 point win in Florida against the unpopular turncoat Crist has gone to his head.

Career politicians are greedy as well. Corrupt Joe is a good example.


15 posted on 09/14/2023 8:36:30 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: JoSixChip

Look at you, you post from these kind of sources daily.

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Link please.


16 posted on 09/14/2023 8:42:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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If the trips were compliant, there would be a report on the trip, the cost, purpose, etc. and who paid for it.

One or two trips not having records might be sloppy record keeping.

Several shows a pattern of behavior, and that desantis took them for granted.....

And the fact that it happened 5 years or so ago, shows now corrupt desantis was, even then....


17 posted on 09/14/2023 8:43:04 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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washpo got flight records and other things showing desantis took those flights..

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Washpo also says Trump and Jeffery Epstein partied together. And Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell were friends.

So you gonna believe that too?

All Righty Then.


18 posted on 09/14/2023 8:47:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ah....

Using the arguement tactics the left uses, when they have no factual position...

In this case, going off on a tangent, when the point is there is information that shows desantis took unreported trips provided by rich people without evidence of paying for them.


19 posted on 09/14/2023 8:54:50 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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I don’t understand the logic of DeSantis’s campaign. He has a small minority of gop voters, so he needs to win many more over if he expects to get anywhere but back home by Spring. .The only significant group of gop voters left are trump supporters. Does he think he will win over Trump supporters by insulting Trump? Does he think he will win over democrats? Independents? If so , does he realize that unless he can win some republican primaries those others will never get the chance to even consider voting for him? I can’t see how he has any chance at all. What a waste.


20 posted on 09/14/2023 9:00:29 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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