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DeSantis Defends Trump
Twitter ^ | July 18, 2023 | Meg Kinnard

Posted on 07/18/2023 10:49:55 AM PDT by Reno89519

Here is Ron DeSantis full off-the-cuff response defending Trump vis-a-vis Trump's impending grand jury testimony: “Look, there’s a difference between being brought up on criminal charges and doing things. Like for example, I think it was shown how he was in the White House and didn’t do anything while things were going on. He should have come out more forcefully, of course. But to try to criminalize that, that's a different issue entirely and I think that we want to be in a situation where you don't have one side just constantly trying to put the other side in jail.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0000001neverrds; 0000001onlytrump; 1621; 2024; desantis; desantis2024; j6; smith; trump; trump2024
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DeSantis DEFENDED Trump. This was, as Trump with say, a perfectly good answer.
1 posted on 07/18/2023 10:49:55 AM PDT by Reno89519
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To: Reno89519

Tepid defense is worse than saying nothing at all. This was tepid at best.


2 posted on 07/18/2023 10:51:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Reno89519

Indeed.


3 posted on 07/18/2023 10:51:56 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Reno89519

Very lawyer-esque.


4 posted on 07/18/2023 10:51:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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he was in the White House and didn’t do anything while things were going on.

Hmmm, he came out on twitter and did a press release and a video.

5 posted on 07/18/2023 10:52:53 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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DeSantis has repeatedly and consistently defended Trump against political persecution. This is the latest example. And, yes, DeSantis gives detailed answers, which is both good and bad. I like his answer here.


6 posted on 07/18/2023 10:53:03 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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I’m not a Desantis hater, but this was pretty weak.


7 posted on 07/18/2023 10:53:32 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: central_va

At least he said something.


8 posted on 07/18/2023 10:55:14 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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He should have shredded the DOJ. He torched himself, it’s over for him. Sad.


9 posted on 07/18/2023 10:55:17 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: Reno89519
, I think it was shown how he was in the White House and didn’t do anything while things were going on. He should have come out more forcefully

That's defending him like defending someone by saying, he's not as terrible as he could have been.

10 posted on 07/18/2023 10:55:18 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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True. But after 4 pm, hours after things were obviously not going well.


11 posted on 07/18/2023 10:55:41 AM PDT by Fuzz (. )
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Very lawyer-esque.

You're right, that is DeSantis, he is or was an attorney.

12 posted on 07/18/2023 10:55:55 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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This is the weakest defense I've seen from anyone.

If DeSantis was running for governor of Florida in 2022 and the Biden administration filed sham criminal charges against him, Trump would have been calling for the DOJ to be burned to the ground.

13 posted on 07/18/2023 10:57:48 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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The original thread where many felt desantis killed his candidacy with his comments

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4168742/posts

14 posted on 07/18/2023 10:59:41 AM PDT by backpacker_c ( )
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True. But after 4 pm, hours after things were obviously not going well.

It took a while to get back to the WH, remember he had to wrestle 3 SS agents in the Beast to take control of the car. And tell me, didn't he authorize national guard to be there? Isn't that doing something BEFORE this occurred?

15 posted on 07/18/2023 11:00:05 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I like Ron DeSantis just fine, and I am willing to support him in 2028.

But we need Trump in 2024 and we need him filled with a need for revenge against the people who stole 2020.

Nothing good will come to us unless the people responsible for stealing 2020 are caught and punished.

16 posted on 07/18/2023 11:00:06 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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You're right, that is DeSantis, he is or was an attorney.

As I've said before, this alone ought to disqualify him from holding any public office. He also worked as a DOJ prosecutor himself at one time, which means he deserves all the public respect you'd give to a child molester.

17 posted on 07/18/2023 11:01:30 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: backpacker_c

That clip was out-of-context and misleading. Surely you would object if someone took 15 seconds of a 42 second clip of Trump to create a misleading impression of what he said. Fair is fair, be honest here.


18 posted on 07/18/2023 11:02:07 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: 1Old Pro

No. Trump did not call the national guard


19 posted on 07/18/2023 11:02:09 AM PDT by Fuzz (. )
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To: backpacker_c

Fouled up link

correct one

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4168742/posts


20 posted on 07/18/2023 11:02:42 AM PDT by backpacker_c ( )
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