Posted on 10/12/2023 10:10:31 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has launched his most brazen attack on former President Donald Trump to date, claiming Trump “attack[ed] our friend and ally, Israel” and falsely claiming he “praise[d] Hezbollah terrorists” during a speech in Florida.
The clip of Trump’s speech, however, undermines the claim. In context, it is clear the 45th President was referring to how “smart” Hezbollah leadership has been in comparison with the Biden government’s capabilities.
“I read all of Biden’s security people, can you imagine, national defense people, and they said ‘Gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack from the north, because that’s the most vulnerable spot!'” Trump said.
“You know, Hezbollah’s very smart, they’re all very smart. The press doesn’t like when I say it… I said that President Xi of China, 1.4 billion people, he controls it with an iron fist, I said he’s very smart – they killed me the next day,” he recalled.
In lock step with the corporate media, DeSantis chose to misrepresent this as “praise” for America’s enemies, rather than a sober warning not to reveal weaknesses that terrorists could exploit.
Terrorists have murdered at least 1,200 Israelis and 22 Americans and are holding more hostage, so it is absurd that anyone, much less someone running for President, would choose now to attack our friend and ally, Israel, much less praise Hezbollah terrorists as “very smart.”
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— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) October 12, 2023
Trump described the Hamas raid as “savage” in the full version of his speech, and recalled how he “fought for Israel like no President in history, but then Crooked Joe Biden came along and tossed Israel to the bloodthirsty jihadists” by loosening sanctions on Iran and restoring aid to Gaza and the West Bank.
DeSantis’s claim that Trump attacked Israel also bore no resemblance to reality, as the 45th President was discussing Israeli intelligence failures, not the nation as a whole. Indeed, a full 86 percent of Israeli respondents to a poll released Thursday say their government’s failures were to blame for the Hamas attack.
DeSantis’s team have also been amplifying prominent neoconservatives in their attempt to frame Trump’s comments negatively, with national spokeswoman Carly Atchison sharing a post by war hawk Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin alleging the former president was “criticizing Bibi Netanyahu and Israel and praising Hezbollah as ‘smart.'” Griffin, in turn, was sharing a post by a Democrat PAC known as Meidas Touch, which was explicitly formed by the far-left to attack Donald Trump.
Neoconservatives have been using the backdrop of the Hamas attack on Israel to try and foment a new war with Iran.
Meatball either got suckered or he’s stupid and dishonest.
Deal with it
Seems to me Trump is calling out the jar shakers and they don’t like it.
If we want lasting peace and fewer dead people, then we need to expose and expel the blood thirsty jar shakers.
Hey RON..
Nikki Haley Is the New Ron DeSantis
Pathetic
This is likely coming from the Bush, Cheney, and Paul Ryan mini-wing of the Republican party.
Desantis disgusts me more with every day, and at this point I can’t even look at or listen to him anymore - and I used to daydream about a Trump/Desantis ticket. Not anymore.
The other thing I learned from Trump is that Bibi backed out in cooperating in taking out Solemaini at the last minute. This filth was responsible for killing dozens of American troops; Bibi received tons of help from America over the years and owed cooperation. Between that and his total lack of intel this weekend (plus it took the IDF seven hours to reach the border towns in a nation the size of New Jersey) are indications Bibi really can no longer lead. This is far worse than Golda in 1973 and like her, he needs to resign.
Florida Man needs to go back to his swamp.
So if we don’t credit our enemies for being smart when they successfully attack and kill a number of us or our allies, then what does it say about us?
If they were dumb and still pulled off a successful attack, aren’t we then even dumber for not having seen it coming?
Either Israeli intelligence (and probably our own spies) knew this attack was coming and let it happen so as to be able to go after Hamas, or Hamas hoodwinked us. And if we can be so easily hoodwinked by Hamas, we can also be hoodwinked by Hezbollah. And they would be smart to try. And if they are successful, they are smarter than us.
Seems pretty commonsensical to me.
It may not be pleasant to contemplate, but it is reality.
BTW, for what it’s worth, mark me down for believing Israel know it was coming. After all, who did they mainly lose in this attack apart from a few IDF forces? — A lot of leftist, stupid peacenik young people with failure to launch syndrome (and some with drug problems) and leftist kibbutz members who demand a lot of the IDF in the way of protection.
There, I said it.
DeSantis is showing more and more he is not a smart man and is not only destroying any chance he has for 2024, but 2028 as well. He is becoming just another despicable RINO who will do anything to try to get elected. I once thought highly of him, he has destroyed that over the last six months.
Right, Ted Bundy was smart and got away with murder for a while until someone smarter came along and caught him.
IMHO, BB is part of the jar shaking team.
Regarding Cheney father and daughter supporting war, the answer to your question might be revealed by their investment portfolios.
Saying you’re enemy is not stupid is not ‘praise’ - it is just a statement of fact.
You make a HUGE mistake underestimating them.
Pres. Trump keeps saying the enemy is smart. Why not just say they’re evil and stop giving fodder to the press with anything further? Does he never learn from his mistakes? Stay positive about America and negative about those who want to kill us. Don’t even give a glimmer of an inkling of a hint of a positive about savages!
Hey Pubbie, the race is over. You can lighten up now.
No he hasn’t?
Then it’s fair to continue to bash away at the lying, manipulative, corrupt, desantis.
But you don’t have to share your evaluation of the enemy’s IQ with the world, and you don’t have to use the positive word “smart”. Barbaric, devious and treacherous are just some of the many adjectives that be applied to Hamas, the latter two denoting a negative degree of intelligence.
Trump’s greatest service to this country has been exposing all the frauds in our government on both sides of the aisle. Ron turned out to be such a disappointment.
Little Ron desperately trying to become relevant. Fail.
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