Posted on 09/14/2023 8:49:59 PM PDT by Reno89519
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump for claiming he doesn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation that the former president awarded him.
“It literally says President Trump awards commendation. Is this the immaculate commendation or something like that? Did this just happen out of thin air?” DeSantis said in a radio interview with Jimmy Failla on “FOX Across America.”
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In January 19, 2021, Trump awarded Fauci and 51 other people who served on the Operation Warp Speed task force during the Covid-19 pandemic presidential commendations.
“Give me a break, people need to take responsibility for their actions. They need to they need to own what they did."
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“A commendation of this nature would require presidential sign-off. They go through staff secretary for approval and then the president would need to approve,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was Trump’s White House communications director ... said she can’t say if Trump actually paid attention to what he was approving, “but to claim he had nothing to do with it is patently absurd. It came from the Executive Office of the President.”
Stephanie Grisham, who served as Trump’s White House press secretary and communications director in 2019 and 2020 and then as first lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff into 2021, said in a message: “In my experience nothing like that would ever go out w/o his knowing. Esp(ecially) if an announcement was released.”
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“Clearly, Dr. Fauci should have been fired. He caused a lot of damage. And not only was he not fired, Donald Trump gave Fauci a presidential commendation, on January 19, 2021, his last day in office,” DeSantis said at an event in Coralville, Iowa in August. “I think that that was a gut punch.”
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That was a great line, Ron. Who wrote it for you?
So funny, priceless. We’ve been politely asking several Freepers to stop posting the same content against DeSantis by different authors and publications endlessly day in and day out and they respond with insults and keep doing it. Here, just a couple rather different articles drawing from Trump’s comments on Fauci and everyone is freaking out, just can’t handle it. Well, sorry, fair is fair, get a grip.
But that is allowed. It’s not considered a duplicate post.
It doesn’t matte, because Fauci will be back in charge in 2024.
It’s a spam post.
“It’s irrelevant. DeathSantis is flailing and trying to score political points.”
Exactly. He’s franticly looking for some way to gain traction and he’s hoping that one of these ‘gotcha’ issues will do the trick. It’s only making him look increasingly more desperate and irrelevant.
Fauci has never been discredited. His people and his programs are still in charge.
Trump and Biden agree Fauci is great.
Yeah well, Trump is leading in the polls and DeathSantis is getting crushed and is losing support from the GOP oligarchs.
🤣🤣🤣
Doesn’t matter in the greater scheme of things.
Fauci was just on TV and nobody listened to him. In fact he was laughed at.
COVID and the jab are being soundly rejected. And Rand Paul is going to hold Fauci accountable for his crimes.
Trump did what he did regarding Fauci because of optics, and because he destroys his enemies by letting them hang themselves.
When Trump is caught lying it is just New York showman stuff.
Duh.
You don’t understand the nuance.
Like Build the Wall.
Or My fave-Drain the Swamp.
And another gem- Lock her Up!
But nothing beats Two Weeks to slow the Spread!
Run along now
DeSantis Took Undisclosed Flights-Accepted Luxury Lodging From Wealthy Donors: Report
Now we know why he had the State Legislature change the Sunshine Laws so his, and his family's travel records would be kept from public scrutiny.
They initially claimed the change in the law was for security purposes, but since the guy walks around all the time in apparel with his name on it, that puts that lie to rest.
RDS is totally on point. Trump sounds like Peter denying Fauxi thrice.
Trump is very guilty of not selecting good people for his team.
The CIA,FBI,RINOS, and Deep State fooled him. Even Barr, his Attorney General was career CIA and a Deep State RINO.
Trump is not a good judge of character.
However, I will admit that they fooled me too. I should have known it when they pushed Bannon out of the White House.
Trump was fed bad information from all sides. He failed to remove the infection from his team.
For that, Trump is guilty.
I sure hope he has learned a very important lesson. Politics is a dirty game.
The old, at this point what does it matter defense. Hillary Clinton is nodding with approval.
The neverTrump children on the internet scream in unison, "We've got him this time". That's all they have in their miserable lives, get Trump.
Desperation is an ugly motivation. DeSantis is sowing salt in the earth. The ground that he is despoiling is his own reputation. By the trime he is finished his name will be a by word for hubris, failure and petty vindictiveness.
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