Posted on 03/20/2023 8:43:54 AM PDT by bitt
"I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA," DeSantis said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has finally weighed in on the looming indictment and potential arrest of former President Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1637828985471086593
DeSantis' remarks are quite interesting and worth reading in full.
"So I've seen rumors swirl," DeSantis said. "I have not seen any facts yet, and so I don't know what's gonna happen. But I do know this, the Manhattan District Attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor. And so he, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety."
"He has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors," DeSantis continued. "He says he doesn't want to even have jail time for the vast, vast majority of crimes. And what we've seen in Manhattan is we've seen the crime rate go up and we've seen citizens become less safe."
"And so you're talking about this situation with, and look, I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair," he added. "I just, I can't speak to that, but what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star 'hush money' payments, you know, that's an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office.'
"And I think that that's fundamentally wrong," he remarked. "I also think it's important to point out when you're talking about these Soros-funded prosecutors, yes, they may do a high profile politicized prosecution and that's bad. But the real victims are ordinary New Yorkers, ordinary Americans, and all these different jurisdictions that they get victimized every day because of the reckless political agenda that these Soros DAs bring to their job. They ignore crime and they empower criminals. And that hurts people, hurts a lot of people every single day."
"The Soros district attorneys are a menace to society, and I'm just glad that I'm the only governor in the country that's actually removed one from office during my tenure," he noted.
DeSantis also said that his office won't be involved in a "manufactured crisis" by the Soros DA.
"We won’t be involved in this," he added. "I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA... He’s trying to do a political spectacle. He’s trying to virtue signal for his base. I’ve got real issues I got to deal with here in FL."
Trump supporters have been roasting DeSantis online about remaining silent over the potential arrest of former President Donald Trump. It will be worth watching if they believe that DeSantis spoke out strongly enough against the political prosecution over if they think he took a veiled shot at the former president.
Trump has him pegged right. A total Establishment tool.
“”Did Ron or Rove write this?””
lol
Took them two days two craft a response. And they managed to repeat leftist lies about Trump twice.
Pretty good overall.
My only disagreement would be the “manufactured circus” part.
Leftist prosecutors are hunting down conservatives, j6ers, meme creators to jail them. Not as flashy as Trump of course, but ruining lives and its NOT for virtue signaling.
As far as I can tell , he never mentioned DJT once.
weak and obviously issued due to pressure. important for DeSantis to note that government political persecutions need to be confronted fast and hard - even if you’re not a DJT fan. the next one they’ll come for? Ron DeSantis. very 1930’s Germany.
Make America Florida
Lol, it was completely political. Got his porn star hush money dig in twice while standing up for law and order and against Soros funded prosecutors.
He hit all the targets multiple times. RDS is very good at political messaging.
I liked his response. Can you imagine what DJT would have said had the roles been reversed? He would have savaged DeSantis.
“DeSantis is smart not to respond to this until the facts are known.”
All the facts are known? They are? Really?
“manufactured theater on the part of Trump and the DA?”
You think Trump and that DA are in this together? They be friends? Really?
“It’s gotten Trump a lot of publicity”
Is that bad? Should you not make the best of what you are handed? Who thinks that?
“Trump has compiled a book of the letters he’s gotten from celebrities.”
He should not be allowed to do this? On his own time no less? Should he have checked with you first? Maybe you just shouldn’t buy it if you don’t want it. Maybe we do that, and others can do what they please with their time and their resources? Or no?
“now that we’re facing bank failures, Russian threats to use nukes, the new Saudi alliances with China and Iran to replace the U.S. dollar, North Korea’s firing off of long-range nukes, and the meltdown of the American economy that most economists are predicting is in the offing.”
That stuff is bad.
“Way to go, Trump!”
Are you suggesting that Trump is responsible for all that bad stuff?
Your brain is a mess FRiend.
Stormy Daniels via the Denver Post (2018)
“The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017 and now again in 2018,” the signed statement reads. “I am not denying this affair because I was paid ‘hush money’ as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids. I am denying it because it never happened.”
I’m not sure what the onlyTrumpers think DeSantis can legally do?
The Supreme Court has very clearly and unanimously ruled that governors have zero power to ignore valid extradition requests.
Puerto Rico v. Branstad, 483 U.S. 219 (1987).
It’s amazing at how little the internet crowd actually knows.
“”Took them two days two craft a response. And they managed to repeat leftist lies about Trump twice.””
DeSantis is a real piece of work.
That’s the name he wants us all to not mention or think about or pay attention to because when we do DeSantis can’t gain traction politically.
Good. DeSantis needed to speak up, and he did.
An Excellent and timely response by this good Governor!:
https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1637828985471086593
“...n which he also twists the knife on rival Trump by twice mentioning the words “porn star” and “hush money.””
Yep, that kind of leaps out at you, I mean it jumps out. That surprises me, since we have all been assured by the DeSantis bots that DeSantis is much too pure and noble to descend into political mud fighting.
Slimey statement from the very calculating Ron.
If anyone needs an explanation for DeSantis’s behavior, I direct you to Florida’s budget.
Note to DeSantis: Thanks for clarifying things, Gov.
I hope Floridians take note.
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