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Amid the Deep State’s efforts to fire Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary, Gov Ron DeSantis has pitched himself as a Replacement to be Defense Secretary.
Laura Loomer on Twitter X ^ | April 21, 2025 | Laura Loomer

Posted on 04/21/2025 11:52:00 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer

Amid the Deep State’s efforts to fire @PeteHegseth as Defense Secretary, @GovRonDeSantis has pitched himself as a Replacement to be Defense Secretary.

If this happens, he would likely make his wife his replacement as acting Governor of Florida ahead of the 2026 Florida Gubernatorial election so that she would have an incumbent privilege. There has been a lot of speculation about making @CaseyDeSantis

Lieutenant Governor of Florida, but these discussions were happening at the same time @Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing was taking place, and Ron was lining up to be his replacement.

The position of Lieutenant Governor of Florida is currently vacant, after @FIUPresident Jeanette Nunez resigned in February to become the President of Florida International University.

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: alchy; degenerate; deptofdefense; fauxnew; firehegseth; foxnewsweekendhost; noronnieno; petehegseth; rondesantis; smellsciafbi; tattooguy; trump
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I say no to this. Pete has Trump's full support. If Desantis got in, Jebby and George W. would sink their deep state claws into him.
1 posted on 04/21/2025 11:52:00 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Yup.

This is the Swamp trying something, anything, in desperation.

Trump was elected to drain the Swamp. That involves the wall and deportation. Everything else are Swamp issues. Ignore them.


2 posted on 04/21/2025 11:54:38 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Keep Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary


3 posted on 04/21/2025 11:55:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Bad Ron and Ron’s Bad Wife emerge once again.


4 posted on 04/21/2025 11:55:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Macho MAGA Man

DeSantis is the Bush Crime Family’s covert op.


5 posted on 04/21/2025 11:55:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Yep, this is not a good plan.


6 posted on 04/21/2025 11:56:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Nope I say stay with Pete Hegseth


7 posted on 04/21/2025 11:56:23 AM PDT by blueyon (God, is who we need)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Every decision would be made with his eye on running for president in 2028. He has been an excellent governor, but we need someone in that position who isn’t using it as a stepping stone to the next level.


8 posted on 04/21/2025 11:58:20 AM PDT by Yogafist
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Shut up, Ron.

Pete and Trump need your support, not your opportunism.

9 posted on 04/21/2025 11:58:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: SaveFerris

I dont believe for ONE SECOND that Hegseth was stupid enough to have a signal chat with his wife and brother, or wife and mother whoever) and discuss what they were about to do in Yemen..NO WAY..first of all, he would have had no reason to do a signal chat with his own wife, he could have just texted her, its not a classified chat, and secondly, why would he even bring up Yemen to his wife and other family member, if he had told me that I would have said “Uh, and you are telling me this why..”


10 posted on 04/21/2025 11:58:54 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Macho MAGA Man

No, and Hell NO! (RD at DoD, and wifey as interim gov, respectively)


11 posted on 04/21/2025 11:59:18 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

If they can take out Hegseth on this flimsy but coordinated op, no member of Trumps cabinet can be effective and confident


12 posted on 04/21/2025 12:00:39 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

NO! DeSantis was a Navy Lawyer, not a fighting man. It’s the promotion of process to defeat substance, business as usual for the grifting classes.


13 posted on 04/21/2025 12:02:20 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: SaveFerris

Second. If he wasn’t the right person for the job they wouldn’t be attacking him daily.


14 posted on 04/21/2025 12:07:32 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: vivenne

YEP 👍👍👍


15 posted on 04/21/2025 12:08:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: RoosterRedux

Ron is 100% against Trump.


16 posted on 04/21/2025 12:08:42 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

IF (big IF) this is a sneaky underhanded way to get the Mrs. in as governor.... it won’t work.

She needs to run and be elected (or not) on her own merits.


17 posted on 04/21/2025 12:12:35 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: RoosterRedux

DeSantis can’t help telegraphing who he really is, the product of he & his wife’s naked ambitions.


18 posted on 04/21/2025 12:12:35 PM PDT by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

As if Trump is going to dump Pete based on an anonymous source in the NYT when the the NYT spent over a year going after Trump on the basis of false accusations by anonymous sources.


19 posted on 04/21/2025 12:17:32 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Macho MAGA Man

My cohorts here said Trump was trampling on Ron desantis’s run for president

They’re so brainwashed

Ron desantis is a pushy, imposing, nasty, sanctimonious pain in the ass


20 posted on 04/21/2025 12:23:22 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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