Posted on 02/05/2023 8:59:57 AM PST by SoConPubbie
“He’s Donald Trump without the baggage!” has become the rallying cry of a cadre of conservative social media “influencers” and political hacks, who have spent the last six years building their large online followings, selling merchandise, becoming e-celebrities, all while pocketing boatloads of cash off of attaching themselves to President Trump’s name and MAGA/ America First branding.
However, in a major plot twist, many of these same individuals are now dedicating their time and resources to destroying the greatest President in modern history ahead of the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary, with hopes of killing off President Trump’s 2024 campaign with propaganda and scripted and coordinated social media posts for their new Lord and Savior, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
But, it doesn’t take a stable genius to realize the hype surrounding “DeSantis 2024”, and the sudden anti-Trump narratives that are being pushed by Conservative Inc. (CON-INC) is a coordinated attack that is being funded by the GOP establishment, the bloated Military Industrial Complex, and our nation’s most notorious NeoCons.
All you have to do is look at the people coalescing around DeSantis in his disgraceful act of betrayal toward President Trump, the man he owes his entire political career to. Take for example Ron DeSantis’s billionaire sugar daddy, Ken Griffin, who said he is ready to back Ron DeSantis for President in 2024, and called President Trump “a three time loser”. Griffin, who is the head of Citadel, donated $1 million to the Obama Foundation in 2017, and in 2020, he wrote a $500,000 check to Joe Biden’s inaugural committee, despite evidence that has shown massive fraud in the 2020 Presidential election (voter fraud, which DeSantis has completely refused to acknowledge or admit).
However, one of the most telling alliances Ron DeSantis has formed, which highlights the fact that he is thorough and through a member of the GOP Establishment, is NeoCon-warmonger, former Ambassador John Bolton.
Bolton has yet to find a war he hasn’t liked, and he has emerged as one of the top cheerleaders for Governor DeSantis, who only escaped from the pits of political obscurity in 2018 during his nearly failed Gubernatorial campaign by painting himself as a “pitbull Trump defender.” It is important to remember that then candidate Ron DeSantis only won the Florida Gubernatorial election by less than one percentage point, and would have lost to Democrat Andrew Gillum if it wasn’t for Donald Trump graciously endorsing DeSantis, who was nothing more than a no-name Florida Congressman in 2018.
While it is true that President Trump hired Bolton during his first term as President to serve as his National Security advisor, President Trump fired Bolton in 2019 after the two had disputes over foreign policy decisions regarding Iran, North Korea, and Afghanistan. On September 10, 2019, President Trump tweeted that he had fired John Bolton, which Bolton profusely denied, claiming that he offered his resignation to President Trump on his own accord.
Although Bolton has faded into a state of irrelevancy since he was fired by President Trump, he made waves on Thursday by bashing his former boss on national television, declaring: “Trump’s 2024 campaign is poison to the GOP.”
Naturally, Trump hit back on Truth Social with a brutal rebuke:
Just a few months ago, in one of Bolton’s many attacks on Trump, he took things a step further and seemed to give a tacit endorsement of Ron DeSantis challenging President Trump in 2024 for the GOP Presidential nomination.
“[DeSantis has] had a very successful run as Governor of Florida. He won re-election on Nov. 8 with a big majority. A lot of people look to him as the next generation candidate,” Bolton said, according to The Guardian. “That’s one of Trump’s biggest problems – his act is old and tired now.”
It is ironic, but unsurprising that the Left is taking a victory lap with the warmonger’s comments, considering just a few years ago, these same Leftists were correctly attacking Bolton for the blood he has happily acquired on his hands for decades, by serving as a cheerleader for endless wars abroad, particularly wars in the Middle East, including the Iraq War.
On July 12, 2022, during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Bolton admitted on live television that he has helped orchestrate coups in foreign countries. He continued to berate Trump on CNN, saying that Trump is not competent enough to “orchestrate and pull off a carefully planned coup d’etat…”
In other words, Bolton thinks Ron DeSantis is much more fit for violating international law than President Donald Trump, who has been very vocal about being anti-war, and has publicly condemned the Iraq War. In 2008, Donald Trump said George W. Bush should be impeached for lying about alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), claims that catapulted the United States into the Iraq War.
In 2016 while campaigning for the Presidency during the highly confrontational GOP Presidential primary season, President Trump directly confronted GOP establishment darling Jeb Bush, the brother of George W. Bush, about the Iraq War, calling it “a disaster”.
She can’t get elected here in PBC because she’s nuts. She attached herself to Mara Lago and, like a leach, needs to be burned off. It is a disservice to FR to post anything for hers and to support it.
DeSantis has loads of people backing him here in Florida. I don’t know how he would do on the National stage with the blue states, the libs, the fake news nipping at his heels. And I worry about his wife, after just getting over her cancer treatments can handle the fury.
I was thinking of that but couldn’t remember it.
Thanks.
For all those folks on here that will come after me because I’m not drooling on the DeSantis altar, I say this... Show me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.
Can you cite any examples?
I do see from a 2013 Tweet that he opposed intervention in Syria.
11:10 AM · Sep 9, 2013"Thank you for all your tweets on #Syria. I am a NO on intervening in the Syrian civil war at this time. Read why: http://on.fb.me/1dI2Ylh."
Tammy Bruce (Fox News contributor, author, radio/podcast host) went on a rant about Bolton a year or two ago. She swore the next time she encountered him, she would curse him out royally.
my friends don’t trash my governor’s reputation...
let’s compare your governor and his accomplishments against ron desantis’s and his...
Your governors reputation?
And i readily admit that DeSantis is better than mine. But then again, that ain’t saying much.
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That's an important distinction. Also we need a potential 2 term President to clean up the mess in this next election - I'm not so sure Trump would do more than one...his age is a factor for two terms.
I agree.
DeSantis is viewed as the most viable candidate, so anyone who doesn’t want Trump is supporting DeSantis solely for that reason.
That includes donors whom I dislike in regards to their ideology and objectives.
However, I understand that they are supporting DeSantis solely because he is viable and is not Trump, and that their support of DeSantis is not because he is on board with their ideology.
DeSantis also understands why he is getting the support of those donors and that he is not beholden to their ideology. They need him more than he needs them.
Therefor, people who try to paint DeSantis with the ideology of some of his high-profile supporters are wrong.
DeSantis’ actions show that he gets things done on an business level and is for America First economically, and that he is the action-oriented warrior against cancel culture amongst all current office holders.
He will be a great candidate for President in 2024, and if Biden is his opponent, he will win unless Democratic fraud is decisive.
Don’t try to reason with people who are apparently ruled by emotions…the most prominent of which appears to be anger.
I will be very surprised if DeSantis enters the primaries in 2024 ...
One does wonder what the slate will actually be when it comes down to it, which is still a ways off as we all know. Those cards always shift once we think we have a handle on it.
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