Who is that masked man?
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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Who is that masked man?
And that threat will remain with or without Trump. I have faith in DeSantis actually making inroads into it whereas Trump more-or-less shuffled it around, leaving it as strong now as before.
“Only Trumpers” are just as bad as “Never Trumpers”. No objectivity what so ever and just as dishonest.
When did Ronnie advise Trump to fire Fauci?
“DeSantis, 44, released the letter Thursday, as he accused former President Donald Trump, 77, of being a “power-hungry” bureaucrat. “
as desanctimonious lies about wanting to run for re-election as governor of Florida....
all the while running a stealth campaign staffing up to run for president....
What a lying, corrupt, power hungry, swamp GOPe uniparty supported political animal desantis turned out to be....
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.
Indeed.
The NeverTrumper/plants know this, just as we all do.
LOL....he was URGED...so, he had an URGE to mask up!
so biden is not at fault for anything because it’s people under him doing it?
that seems to be your logic.
When did Ronnie advise Trump to fire Fauci?
Like everyone was saying!
DeSantis looking better to me all the time.
Oh so you really mean Fauci and Brix.
“The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind. ... three vaccines all are very, very good.”
Wonder if he still holds to that? I’d like to see him asked. Presidents tend to have big egos and be oversensitive to criticism and he’s no exception. When they shut down adverse events reports, there were 1.6 million with five figure deaths.
I will vote for Trump, but I remain a big fan and supporter of DeSantis.
and Ron went along with it. If Ron had done anything to stand up and speak truth to the lies maybe then we’d see the guy has a spine instead of a puppet boy.
That’s the last straw. Im voting for Pence. S/
Murdoch lies
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.
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That’s the bottom line.
Reading some responses here, I am amazed at peoples ability to deflect and not admit Trump made a horrible call. It’s weird. Trump isn’t you, FReepers! He makes mistakes, just admit it.
That being said, I have no trouble voting for him should he be the nominee, more so than for almost all the others. So simmer down.
Yes, Trump made mistakes. Still voting for him.
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