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Trump rants against ‘average’ DeSantis as GOP midterm fallout spreads
New York Post ^ | November 10, 2022 | Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 11/10/2022 4:45:51 PM PST by karpov

Former President Donald Trump broke cover Thursday evening and insisted that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rule himself out of the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, describing his potential rival as an “average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations.”

“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,'” Trump said in a tantrum issued from his Save America PAC, reprising a nickname for DeSantis trialed at a Nov. 5 rally in Pennsylvania. “Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer.”

The 45th president, who was lampooned as “Trumpty Dumpty” on the front page of Thursday’s Post after his handpicked candidates struggled in the most crucial of Tuesday’s midterm elections, took credit for DeSantis’ rise to the Florida governorship and suggested that weather was the real reason for the 44-year-old’s popularity.

“Governor Ron DeSanctimonious,” the former president said, “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!”

Trump, whose divisive intervention in the midterms is being blamed for independents turning decisively against Republican candidates, further alleged that DeSantis “came to me in desperate shape in 2017—he was politically dead, losing in a landslide” in Florida’s GOP gubernatorial primary.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 4; desantis; trump
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Trump's cause is himself. He should not be the next GOP nominee.
1 posted on 11/10/2022 4:45:51 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Thanks for saving the USA. I don’t know what has happened to you but it’s time to pack it in.


2 posted on 11/10/2022 4:47:34 PM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: karpov

3..2..1...before Central VA shows up with his copy paste post.


3 posted on 11/10/2022 4:48:02 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: karpov

Psst...DeSantis IS going to run - and he’s going to kick your butt.


4 posted on 11/10/2022 4:48:51 PM PST by randita
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To: karpov

BS


5 posted on 11/10/2022 4:49:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: RummyChick

Yup


6 posted on 11/10/2022 4:49:48 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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I didn’t believe I could ever feel this way, but the MSM
has been right all along. Hillary was right. She and
those who tried to remove Trump for collusion with Russia
were right. Those who conspired to use illegal means to
remove Trump by election there-by pull off a coup, they
were right.

Trump was wrong to build the wall. He was wrong to
appoint SCOTUS justices who would strike down Roe v
Wade.

He was wrong to institute policies that saw our stock
markets roar. He was wrong to institute policies that
kept our energy prices low and product abundant. He
was wrong to reduce the unemployment rates for Blacks,
Hispanics, and women to all time lows.

I could go on, but you catch my drift. He has said
some bad illogical things, and this time they’ve
finally got him on the run like they always promised
they would. Thank heaven for that.

Trump’s Dastardly Accomplishments

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/

He didn’t allow people to trash him and remain silent
He didn’t come down on the side of the illegal immigrant.
He didn’t praise Leftists and agree with the One World
Odor. How could I have been so blind, and so critical
of the Bush family for doing these sorts of things.

If only I could take all that back.

I can’t image four more years of the kind of things
Trump did last time, and so I join the DNC, the RNC,
the GOPe, the MSM, and every Leftist Democrat and
the RINOs, to condemn Trump and demand he pass the
torch to someone who knows what they are doing.

Mitch, Paul, a whole host of Republicans who slandered
him and demanded he step down, were right.

Refusing to work with him was the best thing that
ever happened to this nation.

Pelosi, Rove, the Bushes, the Cheney’s, the McCains,
McConnell, Ryan, the NeverTrumpers, and so many more
wise people, I have come to understand that you were
right all along.

It’s time to move on from Trump.

I see so many of my FReeper buds now saying this, and
although I thought they should be ashamed for acting
like that, I have come to see just how wise they were.

I’d like to suggest we get behind De Santis, but then
I realized he would certainly support about 99.99% of
what Trump did, so I’d just like to cut to the chase
now rather than waste another four years, when we
would turn on him too.

So lets look for someone that doesn’t believe in what
Trump does. Liz Cheney, Megan McCain... I don’t know
guys, these women were out there trashing Trump long
before any of us were. I’ve had to change my long
standing disagreement with them.

CNN, the View, all these amazing places that said things
about Trump that so many of us now seem to agree with,
I salute these people. Finally, I can watch these
programs and feel at home with my fellow travelers.

If only we had listened.

I don’t know about others, but I feel so much better
knowing I have the best fellow travelers I could have
now that I’ve seen the light.

He’s finally on the run. He’ll withdraw from public
life any day now. He’ll be in prison within months if
he doesn’t, perhaps anyway.

/s


7 posted on 11/10/2022 4:50:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: karpov

I don’t see how this kind of stuff helps him.


8 posted on 11/10/2022 4:51:09 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: karpov

Trump needs to reign it in...He is QUICKLY losing my admiration.


9 posted on 11/10/2022 4:51:56 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: RummyChick

well, president trump will not endorse him for the speaker, and is picking mccarthy instead.


10 posted on 11/10/2022 4:52:33 PM PST by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: devane617

Why can’t he just shut up about DeSantis? Its gonna lose him a ton of support. I would think he would know this.........


11 posted on 11/10/2022 4:54:13 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: karpov

Its a bad look. No way to spin it. It’s not 4D or 5D chess either. It just look bad. DeSantis just won an overwhelming victory statewide and is dealing with a hurricane. Trump is sitting in his big house slinging poop on social media.

Sigh.


12 posted on 11/10/2022 4:54:13 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: karpov

He really IS all about himself. The reason he was such a good President was apparently because he figured being pro-American would bolster his image to others. He was right.


13 posted on 11/10/2022 4:54:14 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: rrrod

Nothing happened to him. DeSantis campaigned in one state while trump campaigned all over the country doing rally’s and fundraisers for candidates in all states.

Trump made DeSantis, he copied all Trumps moves and actions, and he had a full republican legislature behind him. If DeSantis had an ounce of loyalty he would be loud and clear about not running. He hasn’t said a word which means the man doesn’t have an ounce of integrity or loyalty.

Better we know now what he’s made of rather than finding out in 2028 that he’s just another Jeb Bush.


14 posted on 11/10/2022 4:54:54 PM PST by McGavin999 (A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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To: karpov

“The 45th president, who was lampooned as “Trumpty Dumpty” on the front page of Thursday’s Post..”

The media keeps attacking President Trump and he keeps fighting.


15 posted on 11/10/2022 4:55:08 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: karpov
President Trump is venting. He has a lot to vent about, the shabby way he has been treated. But he should do it in private.

President Trump should take some time off; Play some golf; Get tanned, rested, and ready. Then come back in the New Year with both guns blazing.

16 posted on 11/10/2022 4:56:46 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: karpov

Former President Trump unleashes new attack against Governor Ron DeSantis

WFTS Tampa Bay

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/former-president-trump-unleashes-new-attack-against-governor-ron-desantis


17 posted on 11/10/2022 4:57:04 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: karpov

He is breaking Reagan’s 11th Commandment.


18 posted on 11/10/2022 4:57:18 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: karpov

Not content with Commies and RINOs sabotaging his efforts, Trump is now expediting the process by doing it himself. It’s not about you, Mr. President. It’s about the damn country and we’re losing it. You’re carping serves no purpose, helps nothing and is as counter-productive asa it is annoying. Kindly STFU.


19 posted on 11/10/2022 4:58:10 PM PST by fabjr60 ("I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.")
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To: karpov

I am terribly upset. Not about the election because I understand what all happened.

I am set that my Hero, Donald Trump, the one who saved America once and could save it again, is destroying himself and all my dreams of a MAGA America.

Can he not see what his words are doing to his candidacy??


20 posted on 11/10/2022 4:59:11 PM PST by elpadre (W )
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