Posted on 11/12/2022 7:56:35 AM PST by SoConPubbie
On Thursday, Trump posted a lengthy message on Truth Social, nicknaming DeSantis “DeSanctimonious.” He diminished DeSantis’ handling of Covid and insisted that he is responsible for the Republican governor’s success. Trump said,
“Now that the midterms are over, and a success…
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 fo 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, jus 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 (Colusion!), 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!”
On Friday morning, Trump posted about Youngkin, pointing out how much he helped the Virginia governor win the election, and how Youngkin “couldn’t have come close to winning” without his help.
“Young Kin (now that’s an interesting take. Sounds Chinese, doesn’t it?) in Virginia couldn’t have won without me. I Endorsed him, did a very big Trump Rally for him telephonically, got MAGA to Vote for him – or he couldn’t have come close to winning. But he knows that, and admits it. Besides, having a hard time with the Dems in Virginia – But he’ll get it done!”
You know where you can stick your hate!
Has he? Trump seems to think Desantis hasnt shown enough appreciation
You go after the Joe O’Deas of the world — HARD — in the primary, not a few days before the general election. O’Dea is a RINO, but bad as he is, he’s better than Bennett, and he would have added an R.
Do you think someone like DeSantis (or, say, Cruz) wouldn’t have nominaed similar justices? Maybe better, in the case of Kavanaugh.
As Brit Hume once put it, “Trump thinks everything is about him and his critics do too.”
Lee Zeldin, in a LOSING effort in New York, flipped at least 4 House seats.
I’m not a Youngkin fan; I was for Amanda Chase. Youngkin rana somewhat MAGA campaign and has been a good governor. He also forged a path of being supportive of Trump (and vice versa), but not getting too close to him.
"People on FR are disagreeing with me. Cancel them!"
A lot of those endorsements were easy races where they were going to win anyway.
Oz is a RINO. Trump had no business endorsing him.
You got me………..on a technicality. I should have said that Griffin was DeSantis’ second-largest individual donor, giving $5 million. Did I mention that Griffin gave Biden’s 2020 inaugural committee $500,000? And the CTH (Sundance) article is titled: DeSantis Megadonor, Billionnaire head of Citadel Investments Ken Griffin Explains Why He Purchased Ron DeSantis for 2024 and What He Expects From His Investment
The Republican Governors Association top 20 donor list:
1 Blue Cross/Blue Shield $1,335,450
2 Centene Corp $1,152,500 (Medicaid Managed Care - it figures)
3 Chevron Corp $1,000,000
3 Marcus Foundation $1,000,000
The Marcus Foundation funds and partners with organizations that are making a difference in the delivery of community food resources or are expanding the understanding and implementation of sustainability.
The Foundation understands community food resources to encompass a web of issues related to hunger, including poverty, community development and economic policy.
Sustainability is both a principle and a practice that obliges us to carefully consider the consequences of today's actions on the future.
Their home page shows a storefront with signs saying, “Count Every Vote,” and “Every Vote Counts.” Republican? Not even close.
3 Elliott Management $1,000,000 (Hedge Funds. Yippee!)
6 United Health Services $975,000
7 Pfizer Inc $865,900 (It figures)
8 Franklin Mountain Management $756,771 (Big $, investments, etc.)
9 Oberndorf Enterprises $750,000 (Family-owned financial services company - no website. Guess they like to operate under the radar)
9 Mountaire Corp $750,000
9 Marathon Petroleum $750,000
12 Exxon Mobil $650,450
13 NextEra Energy $640,573 (Their website leads with: “A Real Plan for Real Zero. NextEra Energy has a plan to lead the decarbonization of America.” Capital investments/infrastructure. Their 2022 ESG report is linked on the main page.) Republican? Obviously….NO!)
14 Rai Services Co $580,000 (Tobacco products)
15 American Beverage Assn $560,000
16 Vertex Pharmaceuticals $540,000
17 Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America $525,000
18 Aetna Inc $510,000
19 Coca-Cola North America $503,841
20 Third Point LLC $500,000 (SEC-registered investment adviser)
20 Fresenius Medical Care $500,000
20 Molina Healthcare $500,000
20 Travelers Indemnity $500,000
20 Koch Industries $500,000
So would a Gov (or President) DeSantis tell NextEra Energy to get lost if they wanted to to build, I mean invest in, a location in Florida - or anywhere else - to continue their “decarbonization of America?” Not likely.
The RGA clearly accepts donations from outright liberal/Democrat interests, hedge fund/banking/investments, and of course Pfizer. So that’s politics, and that's the Uniparty. The point being of course, that with Donald Trump we don’t have to worry about any of that.
I’ve sued Howard Phillips’s analogy before, but it applies here as well:
When the Democrats are in charge, it’s as if the country is a car going off a cliff at 100 MPH. At least the Republicans drive the speed limit. But what we really need to do is turn the car around.
Well put!
Absolutely agree, though I do believe the Republicans (particularly the long serving professional ones!) are breaking the speed limit. They’re just not accelerating like the Rats are!
Laxalt is gone so if Walker loses which l think is very likely Biden has an open field to pack the court and add DC and Puerto Rico as states and the Green New Deal nightmare too. This election really was our last chance and thank the GOPe for accepting the 20 steal to set this up.
He did it to Masters and Bolduc this cycle, to give the money instead to Lisa Murkowski to fend off A FELLOW REPUBLICAN.
He would rather have a minority with Murkowski than a majority with Masters.
That is 100% true, but it's still better than weaponizing the government against your political opponents (including Trump himself), as Biden and the Dhimmicraps are doing.
As President Trump noted, the Establishment didn’t want DeSantis; they were hoping the gubernatorial campaign would finish him. But he beat their candidate in the primary and beat the crackhead in the general without their “help.” There is no reason he’d make a deal with them.
The hate Trump; they fear DeSantis.
Now they embrace DeSantis in the hopes of destroying him. Don’t take the bait, Ron. Stick to Florida, and then use your political capital to transform the GOP nationally, and then run in 2028.
But they never go away; they hide until the time is right to strike the party again. Look at the Republican governors in California after Reagan, and the Republican presidential nominees between Reagan and Trump.
The next time, instead of letting these SOBs slither under a rock and wait, we need to blow up the rock.
Three weeks ago, DeSantis was a MAGA darling. Now the Trumpkins are going all out to destroy him. Because Trump called him "DeSanctimonious" and made him out as somehow disloyal to Trump personally, the Trumpkins (turning on a dime) have now decided that DeSantis is somehow an Establishment RINO.
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