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Meet the Globalist Billionaires Behind the Presidential Ambitions of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Big League Politics ^ | Nov 16, 2022 | Shane Trejo

Posted on 11/18/2022 9:23:16 AM PST by SoConPubbie

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is backed by many globalist billionaires at war against America First, and they will certainly be cashing in their favors if DeSantis decides to run for president.

A Twitter user, calling themselves Traditional Catholic, posted an informative thread about the people behind DeSantis. It is a who’s who of America Last financiers who see DeSantis as their vessel to derail Trump populism and return the GOP to the feeble politics of old.

“”60% of Ron DeSantis’ donations have come from donations of $50,000 or more. 54% of Donald Trump’s donations have come from donations of less than $200. Just 6% of these donations went to DeSantis. Ron DeSantis is backed by billionaires and the establishment,” Traditional Catholic wrote.

He highlighted venture capitalist Ken Griffin, who has given an incredible $5 million to DeSantis. Griffin is a fierce opponent of America First policies and does not like DeSantis’ populist moves as Florida governor. Still, Griffin thinks he can control DeSantis if he is able to defeat Trump and be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024.

Ken Griffin is Ron DeSantis’ biggest donor. He has donated $5,000,000 to DeSantis. He is the founder of Citadel Capital, yes, THAT Citadel the multibillion dollar Wall Street firm that was the main target of the GameStop short squeeze. Also pressured robinhood to stop GME trading pic.twitter.com/xqPnPEWLD5

— Traditional Catholic 🇷🇺 (@daddy38456) November 15, 2022

Ken Griffin also stated in 2017 that he was "terrified" about the political hardline against immigrants in the US. He also disagreed with DeSantis' move to fly nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard.

— Traditional Catholic 🇷🇺 (@daddy38456) November 15, 2022

WeatherTech founder David MacNeil also gave $800,000 to DeSantis, and his biggest issue is giving amnesty to illegal immigrants. He opposed Trump in 2020 because of Trump’s immigration patriot stance on stopping illegal immigration.

He also stated he’s worried that top staffers at his company could face deportation if DACA is dismantled. This is a pro-illegal immigration billionaire. He donated $800,000 to Ron DeSantis. Will DeSantis really go against a top donor in regards to immigration?

— Traditional Catholic 🇷🇺 (@daddy38456) November 15, 2022

Wall Street hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones is a billionaire DeSantis backer who has given $1 million to the Florida governor. He is a close friend of convicted Democrat sex offender Harvey Weinstein and helped to fundraise for Barack Hussein Obama back in 2008.

Paul Tudor Jones. He is a billionaire hedge fund manager who donated over $1,000,000 to DeSantis. He offered support to his friend, Harvey Weinstein, following revelations of sexual misconduct. He also hosted a fundraiser for Barack Obama in 2008. pic.twitter.com/gttqjEaEL4

— Traditional Catholic 🇷🇺 (@daddy38456) November 15, 2022

Big League Politics reported on how DeSantis implemented authoritarian lockdown tyranny during the COVID-19 pandemic:

A common trope from supporters of the likely presidential run of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is that he stopped COVID lockdowns in his state during the height of the pandemic while President Donald Trump was pushing them from the White House.

But the record shows that this is not what occurred. DeSantis used his authority as governor to enforce lockdowns, shuttering businesses, and use the power of the state to punish noncompliance with his edicts.

Video from June 2020 shows DeSantis threatening bars with revoking their liquor licenses unless they abided by his arbitrary restrictions enacted supposedly in the name of science:

Additionally, pastors were arrested and thrown in jail because they held services during DeSantis’ lockdown. The DeSantis administration grotesquely infringed upon religious liberty and made a mockery of the 1st Amendment during the pandemic:

DeSantis, like Trump, has shilled hard for the experimental COVID-19 vaccines as well, assuring the public that they were safe for usage and would stop transmission when that turned out to be a lie.

“If you’re vaccinated and you test positive but you don’t get sick, well the name of the game is to keep people out of the hospital,” DeSantis said in July 2021. “Seventy-five percent of Floridians over the age of 50 have gotten shots, so we think that’s really, really positive.”

“If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID is effectively zero,” he said. “If you look at the people that are being admitted to hospitals, over 95% of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. And so these vaccines are saving lives. They are reducing mortality.”

There are too many problems with DeSantis for him to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. He needs to stay in Florida so Trump can remedy his unfinished business on a national level in 2024.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; desantis; dougthedemocrat; election2022; election2024; fl; florida; notthiscrapagain; provaxantitrump; rondesantis; slugwaypuke; trump
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To: DugwayDuke

61 posted on 11/18/2022 12:22:38 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: House Atreides

Love your post. How true. How true. How true.


62 posted on 11/18/2022 12:25:13 PM PST by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school. Written in 2015.)
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To: Bratch

If DeSantis doesn’t run or otherwise prevent Trump from gaining the Republican POTUS Nomination for the 2024 election, his current financial backers will presumably vanish.

Only to resurface supporting whomever will be opposing DeSantis in 2028!


63 posted on 11/18/2022 12:28:35 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump mentioned DeSantis locking down businesses during Covid. Media called him a liar. DeSantis now talks tough about protecting Florida was illegal Covid restrictions but he’s easily proven a liar. He now calls the vaccination the “jab” to try and make people believe he was always against it.


64 posted on 11/18/2022 12:29:18 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: DugwayDuke
No, Biden did not win a damn thing. It was stolen from him be the leaders of both Parties. President Trump is an honest man. Neither the Party Leaders nor the voters want an honest man/woman in Office. In fact, they will not have it. They demand someone just as degenerate as they. Just as perverse. Just as corrupt as they to rule over them. In other words, one of them. Lying Joe Biden fits that description to a Tee. Thus he sits in the White House in lieu of Donald Trump. And the People rejoice. And Republicans and Democrats got back in bed with each other and fornicating and fleecing the tax payer.
65 posted on 11/18/2022 12:31:07 PM PST by sport
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To: SoConPubbie

"There are too many problems with DeSantis for him to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024."

The most moronic statement ever made the history of the world.

66 posted on 11/18/2022 12:32:02 PM PST by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school. Written in 2015.)
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To: sport

sport wrote: “No, Biden did not win a damn thing. It was stolen from him be the leaders of both Parties.”

Biden is the current president of the US. Until someone is been able to prove the theft of the 2020 election, he won. Anything else is as much an excuse for a bad candidate running a bad campaign as your typical bar talk about how the other team only won because they cheated. Until you get over that, you’ll never have a chance to win.


67 posted on 11/18/2022 12:48:29 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

one guy in new jersey wrote: (something)

That’s cute but proves nothing.


68 posted on 11/18/2022 12:49:40 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

True, and true.


69 posted on 11/18/2022 1:03:26 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: DugwayDuke

To the POTUS Victor (i.e., ostensibly so, because by crime, or by fraud, blessed or sanitized by Pence and the Senate on 1/6/2021), go the spoils (including at least 4 years of immunity and impunity at the federal level).

That seems to be all you are really saying.


70 posted on 11/18/2022 1:14:42 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: cowboyusa

blah, blah, blah. Boring.
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And this is boring how???

Not rhetorical...how is this boring?????


71 posted on 11/18/2022 1:17:31 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: odawg
This was the best post of this thread.

This is reality.

72 posted on 11/18/2022 1:19:48 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: DugwayDuke

Links to Dems scared of DeSantis? Please provide some....

Just like clot shots...

Seems to me Uniparty/globalists/Dems are scared of Trump.


73 posted on 11/18/2022 1:20:20 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: one guy in new jersey

one guy in new jersey wrote: “To the POTUS Victor (i.e., ostensibly so, because by crime, or by fraud, blessed or sanitized by Pence and the Senate on 1/6/2021), go the spoils (including at least 4 years of immunity and impunity at the federal level). That seems to be all you are really saying.”

I’m saying several things:
- no one has established in a court of law, sufficient evidence that the elections was stolen.
- until it is proven, it is just an excuse and relying upon that excuse blinds you to the steps that must be taken to win in 2024.
- the only way to overturn the 2020 election would require impeachment in the house and conviction in the senate. Now name 27 Democrat senators that would vote to remove Biden from office. Of course, then you would have Kamala as President ...
- the American people have spoken and they don’t want to hear “tales of yesteryear”, they want to hear a plan on how the GOP will fix this mess.


74 posted on 11/18/2022 1:25:00 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Freedom56v2

Freedom56v2 wrote: “Links to Dems scared of DeSantis? Please provide some....”

You’re not going to find many democrats stating that for the record but why should the dems be more afraid of Trump when they’ve already beaten him three times in a row.


75 posted on 11/18/2022 1:27:15 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Freedom56v2

Freedom56v2 wrote: “Just like clot shots...”

I’m fascinated by the anti-vaxxers who favor Trump, the man most responsible for those vaccines. The man who gave us ‘fifteen days to flatten the curve’. All sorts of masking and social distancing, etc.


76 posted on 11/18/2022 1:29:19 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

Why are you even here?

They did not beat him 3 times...Like you would know.

What are you smoking?

You said Dems are afraid of DeSantis...To quote:

The democrats are salivating at the possibility they can run against and defeat Trump one more time. They’re scared of DeSantis and his ability to attract minority voters.

More troll drivel...

I asked for the links supporting your comment—opinion stated as fact...my pet peeve outside of using “Breaking News” Side Bar for things like what I ate for breakfast...

Why don’t you just admit you are no longer MAGA...It’s OK...there are people here who support your position.


77 posted on 11/18/2022 1:41:14 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: DugwayDuke

January 6th sanitizes crooks. It’s our constitutional system.

After January 6th, there is no going back.

Pence going limp, and failing to throw a totally justified constitutional fit, sealed disappointed Trump’s fate in ‘21 and ensured that brain-addled Biden would become Prexy.

The federal government must rein in the states when it comes to the election of members of the federal congressional HoR and Senate, VPOTUS, and POTUS.

This means we keep throwing the Bad Orange Man at the quadrennial Republican convention every four years without fail until they get off their fat duffs and go about fixing the problem that Mclellan-like Pence in his effeminate weakness blew off in 2021.


78 posted on 11/18/2022 1:56:09 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Freedom56v2

Freedom56v2 wrote: “Why are you even here?”

I’m here because I enjoy this place. Why are you trying to

Freedom56v2 wrote: “They did not beat him 3 times...Like you would know.”

Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. That’s one.
Trump lost the House in 2018. That’s two.
Trump lost both the popular vote and the electoral college in 2020. That’s three.
Trump’s interventions cost Republicans two Senate seats in 2021, and with them control of the U.S. Senate.
And, now you have the 2022 underperformance by Republicans.
I guess that’s five.

And, yes, I said the Dems are salivating running against Trump. I don’t need links to know that. It is common sense based upon Trump’s record as a losing candidate.

Freedom56v2 wrote: “Why don’t you just admit you are no longer MAGA...It’s OK...there are people here who support your position.”

One can be MAGA and prefer another candidate to carry the MAGA banner. MAGA isn’t Trump and Trump isn’t MAGA. MAGA is bigger than Trump.


79 posted on 11/18/2022 2:03:04 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: cowboyusa

Very interesting!!!


80 posted on 11/18/2022 2:04:16 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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