Posted on 03/20/2023 8:28:21 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) weighed in Monday on Donald Trump’s possible criminal indictment in New York, breaking a two-day long silence on the former president’s claim that he will be arrested this week.
Asked about the rumored indictment during an event, DeSantis lambasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating hush money paid to a porn star on Trump’s behalf during his 2016 campaign, calling him a “Soros-funded prosecutor” and accusing him of “weaponizing” his office.
“I’ve seen rumors swirl. I have not seen any facts yet, and so I don’t know what’s going to happen,” said DeSantis, a likely 2024 Republican presidential hopeful. “But I do know this: The Manhattan district attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor and so he, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.”
DeSantis didn’t mention Trump by name, choosing instead to grill Bragg over his approach to crime in New York City, though he drew a laugh from the audience when he quipped that he doesn’t “know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair.”
“But what I can speak to is if you have a prosecutor, who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office,” he said.
Still, DeSantis also noted that his office would not be involved in the case “in any way,” signaling that he has no plans to help Trump fight extradition to New York should he face charges.
The remarks were DeSantis’s first on the potential indictment since Trump claimed in a Saturday post on his social media site that he would be arrested on Tuesday and urged his supporters to protest any possible criminal charges against him.
DeSantis’s initial silence on the matter kicked off a pressure campaign by Trump’s allies, who raised questions about why the Florida governor hadn’t chimed in on the former president’s claims.
Other current and prospective Republican presidential candidates, including former Vice President Mike Pence and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, came out in defense of Trump over the weekend, casting Bragg’s investigation as politically motivated.
Ramaswamy specifically sought to pressure DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, one of the few declared Republican presidential candidates, to condemn Bragg’s “political persecution through prosecution” of Trump.
DST=Ron DeSantis?
Typing with one hand while you drink your coffee? Cute. :-)
Considering who is backing him at this point, I have no plans to support him for President in ‘24. I repeat myself here, but who pays the piper calls the tune.
If you can’t figure out what is so obvious, there isn’t much I can say to help you.
He held his finger to the wind and saw which way it was blowing yesterday.
He’s more trash from Harvard and Yale. And he didn’t just not defend Trump, he slandered him. His sanctimonious statement was more of an attack on Trump that it was on Bragg. Anyway, will talk to you about those high school girls he was snuggled up with drinking beer soon enough. You know, when he was their teacher. I’m sure everything just stopped at beer. Lol
No doubt you would have had the proof, comrade — except for that pesky 18-minute gap on your tape.
“ Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's “political persecution” of former President Donald Trump as “utter and complete crap.”
“The case from the Manhattan District Attorney, if they bring an indictment and charge him, is utter and complete crap…It is flimsy. It is weak,” Cruz said on his latest Verdict podcast episode. “It has been rejected by prosecutor after prosecutor after prosecutor. And it is obviously political retribution and a political persecution.
“[Bragg] hates Donald Trump. Now he has a right to hate Donald Trump. But he doesn't have a right to abuse and corrupt the justice system to persecute his political opponents. And that, sadly, is exactly what he's doing here,” the Texas senator continued.”
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I prefer Senator Cruz's response to that of Governor DeSantis.
“ Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's “political persecution” of former President Donald Trump as “utter and complete crap.”
“The case from the Manhattan District Attorney, if they bring an indictment and charge him, is utter and complete crap…It is flimsy. It is weak,” Cruz said on his latest Verdict podcast episode. “It has been rejected by prosecutor after prosecutor after prosecutor. And it is obviously political retribution and a political persecution.
“[Bragg] hates Donald Trump. Now he has a right to hate Donald Trump. But he doesn't have a right to abuse and corrupt the justice system to persecute his political opponents. And that, sadly, is exactly what he's doing here,” the Texas senator continued.”
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Senator Cruz shamed Governor DeSantis.
I, Ron DeSantis, will never seek the GOP nomination in any year that Donald Trump seeks the GOP nomination.
That’s the security blanket and pacifer that many Freepers seek.
the desantis derangement syndrome is strong on this thread...
the responding posts prove why the republicants will always be losers on the national level...
Meidas Touch, is that you?
Has he not now validated Trump’s spitball campaign against him, which prior to today seemed petty and unprovoked?
YOu are comparing apples and oranges.
I like Cruz’s comments too.
It’s good to see he’s gotten over DJT’s nasty accusations about his father having something to do with JFKs assassination.
There are many stories of battling Democrats and the successful stories often end with belittling the clown that’s at the front of the democratic pack, in this case Bragg, when you hit the public with facts about Bragg and his obstructionism along with any dirt you can dig up he will cower and go back under the rock he came out from.
It’s a page out of their own Marxist tactical workbook but it’s effective.
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