Posted on 06/09/2023 4:12:33 AM PDT by backpacker_c
Ron DeSantis has run to the defense of his 2024 Republican rival Donald Trump to attack the Department of Justice and ask why it isn't going after Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden - but stopped short of offering to pardon.
However DeSantis, who is second place in polls across the country, stopped short of saying he would pardon Trump if he won the 2024 race, and the former president was convicted.
DeSantis supporters have said that Trump should drop out of the White House race to the Florida governor can pardon him if he wins in 2024. Trump currently holds a considerable lead over DeSantis in the polls.
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DeSantis knows his only chance is for Trump’s legal issues to take Trump out of the running.
So while he will use this opportunity to attack Biden and the current administration he doesn’t want to dismiss or minimize the attack on Trump.
As is always the case with DeSantis, he acts with only his own best interest in mind at every point. The Biden DoJ is attacking political rival? Good opportunity to attack Biden. Trump getting attacked by the Biden DoJ? Good opportunity to knock Trump out of the running. That is the DeSantis MO.
Im a Trump supporter but to expect his rival to really back him up?
That’s a decent point but if DeSantis is as smart as they’re portraying him or as he thinks he is, if thinks those guns won’t be pointing at him if they get rid of Pres Trump, he’s dumber than dirt.
Any Republican is the next on the ‘hit list’ if Pres Trump is gone.
I dunno why you’d expect desantis to say he’d ‘pardon’ trump. It’s an indictment not a conviction. The whole thing could be dropped tomorrow and there’d be nothing left but the headlines. To offer a pardon would imply that desantis thinks there’s some weight to the charges.
I think desantis is right to call out the DOJ for interfering in the election. If they’re going to run against each other, desantis would rather win on the debate stage rather than have the power of the state take out his rival for the nomination. Offering a pardon at this point just seems to give undeserved weight to the democrats assertions.
DeSantis was silent when Trumps home was raided.
That was enough for me.
I have zero trust in him.
Your TDS is getting the better of you.
You sound like someone in the view.
Porn stars…….nothing
Confidential records…..Presidential Records Act and the fact that you’re taking the word of the DOJ, who apparently didn’t tell the grand jury or his lawyers what documents were confidential….”we found super duper top secret documents that he was getting ready to sell to the Nigerians, trust us”
Bad picks…..that’s getting old.
You need some counseling
I get a kick out of the fact, that DEE-Saintis no longer identifies as governor of Florida..
Trump has all the right enemies. DeSantiss has all the wrong friends.
“It’s downright pathetic “
yeah, I’m not on board with any candidate at this point.
I like vivek he’s really smart but don’t know how he’ll navigate in the swampy cesspool that is DC. Tim Scott the same way, he appears to be way to conciliatory. Hard to say who will be able to dismantle the democrats fraud and corruption machine that’s coopted over our federal government.
The Only Trumpers pretty much hate anyone what wouldn’t kneel down and confess their sins to Trump. He is their pope. Amazing.
DeSantis sticks up for Trump, defends Trump, and the Only Trumpers figure out a way to accuse him of blasphemy. And I thought the LEFT had bad religion. Wow.....
False accusations are a sign of devil worship. I do not Hail Mary or call some man father.. pretending to be morally superior..
But beware the glass house you live in. I was one of the first Trump supporters on FR, I supported him until recently. I still defend him but enough is enough. He has had multiple adulterous affairs, has involved porn stars, has made legal payments, has repeated made bad hiring choices, has very limited and fragile sense of loyalty to his employees, has lost his legacy through fleeting EOs instead of lasting legislative action, etc., etc., etc. Consider that for Trump, it's all about him, no one else ever to blame. Sorry, it is not. This is Trump, this is all Trump, and it's time to face that, accept that, and move on.
Why not focus your efforts on his friend McCarthy, get him to impeach Biden, Harris, Garland, Wray, etc. But no, that won't happen. All talk. (Another bad choice by Trump).
Yea but DeSantis isnt an outsider who showed the country a President can make promises and keep them, turning around a nation and overcoming relentless headwinds in doing so. We know Washington is a quagmire, where chaos is not resolved but curated as means of making public service a multibillion dollar industry…. So making sure anyone but Trump is on stage is a key priority for all the uniparty stooges.
Impeach anyone????
Great deflection.
You have a House that wouldn’t touch that 3rd rail and a Democrat controlled Senate.
With regards to McCarthy and the rest. Just dump what you have. Make it all public. Let the world know everything.
Stop with the…..Rep ???? saw the documents and can’t believe all the criminal activity the Bidens were involved in. Put it out there.
No Democrat, especially Biden and his son, is going to prison over anything.
Yep, and Greene suddenly rejected releasing the J6 video when it became clear that it might actually happen. I remember too well all of the repeal and replace Obamacare hype until it because a real possibility and they choked. Hillary really did say it best years ago when she explained about what is said and done outside The Beltway and what is said and done inside The Beltway. True of every politican in Washington, DC.
Well looking at 2020, trump needs every vote he can get. Poor guy.
“Well looking at 2020, trump needs every vote he can get. Poor guy.”
Well, looking at 2024, Trump is up 7 points on Biden, and that doesn’t even include Biden’s weakness in getting many of his votes in deep blue states, where they have no effect on the Electoral College.
BTTT
Yes the magic seed polls. 2022 were so accurate. 2020 was stunningly accurate. Sad you believe liberal polls. Or any polls.
Why would anyone expect him to commit to a pardon when we don’t even know the charges?
“Ron, we appreciate your very strong defense of Donald, but we suspect your knee was not fully jerking!”
Do you realize how ridiculously juvenile this sounds? I mean seriously. MOST that support Desantis do so because of his conservative record inhis leadership of Florida. He is also far from a friend of the MSM. He is second (behind Trump) as the most disliked. MOST also find Trump to be an effective leader and want EITHER to win and take the swamp out. What I don’t get are those that besmearch anyone that isn’t making Trump their first choice BUT A CHOICE. You win none to your side bashing a Conservative with a stellar conservative record just because he CHOOSES to run against your chosen candidate.
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