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.
He’s right on the money. Until New York State issues an extradition order, DeSantis can do little.
Hahaha a few days ago Silence was the perfect response. A it transparent. This guy lives up to his name. Desanctimonius. Faithful? Hmm
“nobody forced Trump to get involved with a porn star ... he made that dumb move all by himself”
You obviously are trying to spread liberal propaganda. The lawsuit win for Trump said he did not get involved with her.
I never do expect anything from some socialist canadian but liberal propaganda. No one has any expectations of a canadian. No one.
It's worth nothing to the mindless robotic trump worshipers, who will hurl puerile, idiotic invective at Governor DeSantis no matter what he says or does.
DeSantis had and continues to have no duty or obligation to respond to this. It has nothing to do with him whatsoever.
Face it: the anti-DeSantis people here on FR have become NeverDeSantis people. Their stance has forced them into a position from which they dare not step back.
If either you or DeSantis can't figure out what this kind of tyrannical behavior by a DA has to do with everybody, then you're lost.
It’s pretty obvious none of you watched the actual video to see how Desantis contextualized his remarks. But you already have your little narrative set, so why go to the trouble of actually watching the video? You’re all clowns.
Yeah.
Stormy Daniels via the Denver Post (2018)
“The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017 and now again in 2018,” the signed statement reads. “I am not denying this affair because I was paid ‘hush money’ as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids. I am denying it because it never happened.”
Good. My prior posts on the subject are now updated with DeSantis doing what he should.
Indicting a president on behalf of a Nazi collaborator Satanist billionaire is a matter of vital national concern to anyone with half a brain.
...just like one can go back many years and say that there was something about a teacher drinking beers, getting hugs and partying with students.
I guess you’re another freeper who hasn’t watched the video before commenting. This place is turning into MSNBC.
He didn’t, but as a Canadian you wouldn’t know that. He was very involved in producing reality TV shows at the time. She met with him in an attempt to get on a show. He didn’t fall for it. Then she tried to blackmail him a few years later right as his election was about to happen.
“....that he doesn’t “know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair.”...
Maybe will not the same accusation but there will be some garbage spit out about RDS if he’s the nominee. Bank on it.
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