Posted on 09/07/2023 3:01:54 PM PDT by thegagline
The Trump White House issued a warning to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2021 urging him to enact mask mandates in the Sunshine State, a letter shows.
The directive, dated Jan. 10, 2021, states that “aggressive mitigation must be used” to combat the virus.
It advised “uniform implementation of effective face masking” and “strict physical distancing.”
DeSantis, 44, released the letter Thursday, as he accused former President Donald Trump, 77, of being a “power-hungry” bureaucrat.
“Even in January of 2021, the Trump-Fauci White House Coronavirus Task Force attacked Florida for being open and demanded Florida impose a mask mandate and enact other lockdown policies,” he said during a “Mandate Freedom” press conference in Florida.
“We rejected those demands, stood up to power-hungry health bureaucrats, and kept our state free.”
*** The ex-xommander-in-chief also defended his decision not to fire Fauci, which has been a frequent criticism from DeSantis.
“First of all, you’re not allowed. He’s civil service, and you’re not allowed to fire him,” Trump insisted.
“But forget that, because I don’t necessarily go by everything. Dr. Fauci would tell me things, and I wouldn’t do them, in many cases.”
DeSantis, however, was unconvinced by that defense.
“It’s important to point out for a long time that was not his excuse,” the presidential hopeful argued on the Rubin Report Wednesday.
“His excuse had been that if you fired Fauci, both the Democrats and the media would have pitched a fit, which, of course, is 100% true.
“Clearly, he could have been fired from the White House Task Force. There was no obligation to run him out at press conference after press conference, have him doing media interviews.” ***
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"The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind." Trump
"I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines all are very, very good.” Trump
"I was able to get something approved that, you know, that has proven to have saved a lot of lives. Some people say that I saved 100 million lives worldwide." Trump
“The Trump White House”
Thanks, didn’t think it was Trump...just the “Trump White House”.
Therefore, Trump still gets my vote.
Trump was wrong on Covid response. I’ll admit it, but he’s still the better man for the job at this point in history. We can’t let the left criminalize the GOP candidate.
Hindsight is easy, the MSM would have crucified Trump if he fired Fauci or even ignored him. It took two years to find out the masks did nothing.
NeverTrumpers have to hate. Thank you Fox News Corp.
That’s why they engineered COVID in the first place. It was the perfect “No Win” for Trump, at a time he was cruising to re-election.
And Trump owns the results and should not be trying to lie his way out.
It seems Ron has to find someone else to blame. Does he run his own railroad at all? Or does the legislature down there do the thinking?
The buck doesn’t end with Trump? Okay, who is he going to throw under the bus for this one?
No matter how hard you try to get DeSantos the nomination.
You’ll end up a failure.
It does make Free Republic very entertaining, though.(Love your energy)
Agree.
But let me guess. If DeSantis advocated a policy and a couple years later it turned out to be dead wrong, you’d be a LOT less forgiving. Par for the course for the trump cult.
I agree with Trump; Meatball and his coven should wear masks.
Yes he was wrong. I hold that and the vaccines against him. I don’t know why he fell for that bullshiite. But I will vote for him
If Trump had fired FAuci, he would have been impeached, AND convicted.
The RINOs were just itching to get an impeachment where they could get away with voting for Trump.
So Trump’s task force sent the letter...
O’Reilly sucks!!!!
Were you aware of the threat Deep State posed in 2021?
It’s a fact. Why do you have issue with facts. I thought we conservatives were better than that.
No matter how much you trash the man, fault lies strictly with the deep state Dems. Dig a little deeper to understand how that whole BS played out. But somehow I don’t think you will. Your orders have come through.
Trump is still the man and it’s obviously killing you 😆
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