Posted on 03/20/2023 11:18:48 AM PDT by RandFan
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, when asked about rumours of former President Donald Trump's impending indictment, denounced the man in charge of the investigation, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
What the man who might be Mr Trump's most formidable presidential rival said next, however, was telling.
"I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair," he said. "I just I can't speak to that."
He went on to mention "porn star hush money payments" a second time, before pivoting back to criticism of what he called a "high-profile politicised prosecution" by a prosecutor he said was backed by deep-pocketed liberal donor George Soros.
The Florida governor seemed to go out of way to emphasise the tawdry origins of the potential crimes being investigated, even while denouncing the investigation itself.
That could be a sign of how Mr Trump's presidential rivals handle a possible arrest and criminal trial for falsifying business records and state campaign finance law violations.
Mr DeSantis had been under pressure from Trump supporters to defend the former president and denounce the prosecution ever since the Mr Trump speculated on his social media website that he would be arrested on Tuesday.
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thank you for proving your hypocrisy and why the republicants will always lose at the national level...
we floridians are loving life in the free state of florida under governor ron desantis’s leadership...
how are things working out for you in virginia?...
I have to put or shut up or prove anything to you.
I’ll keep saying this entire Stormy Daniels fiasco is Trump’s fault.
You think Trump has no control over his own PAC?
After all the $#/+ Trump has been throwing at DeSantis should anyone be surprised FL-GOV reminds everyone that the flimsy basis for this is a payoff to a whore?
“Stay in Tallahassee and spare yourself and your family the epic defeat coming for you”
I think that has been his inclination all along. The cackling talking heads are speculating otherwise, and some how that nattering is taken as gospel.
I saw MeAgain Kelly trying to force feed an answer out of some politico this morning... on Trumps position, the politico didn’t take the bait. Media whores are working the streets.
Ya’ll a big dog pile of gullible.
Complaining about Trump’s alleged infidelities & “grab em by the” was OK in 2016.
Since then he’s offered MORE than enough proof he’s good for the US.
Being pretty much responsible for overturning Roe v Wade, to name one very conspicuous example.
So you’ll pardon many of us if we just don’t share your offense at Trump’s personal shortcomings to the point we’re ready to toss him and the good he could still do for our country in the dumpster.
The hypocrisy is hilarious. You forgot your sarcasm tag but I get the joke.
Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.
Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.
Hey, Mittens! I didn’t know you were a member of Free Republic!
this is not an airport and you do not need to announce your departure
I don’t disagree with you, but this particular mess centers around Stormy Daniels which is why we are talking about it and Trump Supporters demanding that everyone drop to one knee and defend him.
This type of loyalty runs two ways, if you want it you have give some from time to time and filing an ethics violation case against one of your main rivals is not one of the things you do and demand 100% loyalty afterwards.
Where’s your responsibility to our Country, Responsibility2nd???
This is not about Trump OR DeSantis.
It is about whether we let the Left use the American Justice System in the most corrupt political way our country has EVER seen, because it is a FALSE charge against an ex-President. Doesn’t matter if it is Trump, Carter, Bush, Obama...
This truly is unprecedented.
Caesar was told by the Senate not to bring his Legions South of the Rubicon.
He did anyways, and the Republic died.
Welcome to Mr. Soros’s New American Empire of the Woke Politically Deranged.
Why are you playing tradition intra-party politics?
And what joke would that be?
https://www.thewrap.com/stormy-daniels-says-she-technically-didnt-sleep-with-donald-trump/
PDJTis famously germophobic. Yet we are supposed to believe he slept with a porn star.
I've known a couple of germophobes. The behavior doesn't fit.
Now, in the heyday of his younger days, I imagine he could walk on the bodies of women angling for this or that. Supposedly, he worked himself stupid, but Ivana wanted to go out on the town. Eventually, that got old.
I don’t think I’d like him much for any reason, but he is a man’s man who loves what was the USA. What he did for this country was Herculean.
Meatball does not have to listen to Karl Rove’s advice.
He can say no.
trump has 2 failed marriages...
trump has how many children amongst his 3 marriages?...
trump isn’t germophobic...
I doubt very much you’ll be able to provide any evidence Trump filed a case of any kind against DeSantis. So that is a falsehood.
This Stormy Daniels deal is one thing, but you keep bringing up other criticisms from the past which have nothing to do with it. Why is that?
I fully expect you to say this was Trump Supporters and Trump didn’t know anything about it, right and I have oceanfront land in Nebraska to sell you.
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