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Trump: ‘Even Cuomo did better’ than DeSantis on COVID
Florida’s Voice. All Rights Reserved. ^ | Published May. 19, 2023, 11:48 a.m. ET | Updated May. 19, 2023 | By Ernesto Sampera

Posted on 05/20/2023 5:50:55 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Former President Donald Trump launched a hail of attacks directed at Gov. Ron DeSantis Friday morning as rumors continue to swirl regarding an impending DeSantis presidential run.

Trump criticized the Florida governor over his state’s “very average” handling of the coronavirus pandemic and pointed to former Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the situation.

“How about the fact that he had the third most deaths of any State, as Governor, on the China Virus. Even Cuomo did better,” Trump said on TRUTH Social.

Cuomo reportedly oversaw his state’s health agency “misle[a]d the public” on nursing home deaths.

(Excerpt) Read more at flvoicenews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New York
KEYWORDS: covid; cuomo; desantis; election2024; rinodon; stopitdonald; trump
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Trump becoming a habitual liar now...


121 posted on 05/20/2023 8:44:59 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Lol! Time for your chill pill. Take two.


122 posted on 05/20/2023 8:46:18 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Alberta's Child

“Unfortunately, I found it highly distressing to find so many Freepers on board with this in 2020 ... which said a lot about the simpering, cowardly Branch Covidians who like to pretend they’re actually “conservatives.”

Funny/odd, but....you’re here championing Trump...and his attack on DeSantis...

yet Trump is no conservative. Far from it. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.


123 posted on 05/20/2023 8:49:28 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Erik Latranyi
Do YOU mind ...? Saint Desantis signed legislation provided him by the state legislature ... HE is not a god.

It is not a good thing to waste a mind over PA voting for a mental patient... Remember ‘we the people are government’. GET a mirror ..

Now there was a concave of donors recently called so the saint could view the color of smoke, for Saint Desantis presidential aspirations... I give it a ‘YES’ since the BS artist Barr was out crowing that President Trump was going down in August... You ‘trans’ Republicans are lower than the in your face liberals...

124 posted on 05/20/2023 8:50:59 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Danie_2023

Please define ‘conservative’... I keep reading ‘trans’ Republicans using it but NONE will define the word..


125 posted on 05/20/2023 8:52:45 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Mouton

Trump is losing me with his rhetoric. dont no what else to say...I will support the nomination but doing this hurts conservatism when it comes to 2028. you have to take some of the bad with the good that is trump. this fight we see is one of the reasons we like him but it stings when his punches are not hitting the targets, we want him to hit in the democrat party.


126 posted on 05/20/2023 8:57:48 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: Alberta's Child

ALL OF THEM have Trump’s name on them. Stood there grinning like an idiot and pointing at people in the crowd while Mengele announced that they suggested locking down two feet away from him.


127 posted on 05/20/2023 8:57:57 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Alberta's Child

“ There isn’t a single lockdown order anywhere that has Donald Trump’s name on it.”

The only reason there is no state lockdown order with Trump’s name on it is because he didn’t have the legal ability to do so. He did issue a lot of Covid restrictions for travel and for federal employees, the military and for federal contractors. But keep in mind that the state lockdowns were based on Trump’s “guidelines” and were made largely possible by him providing the states with money. He also castigated governors who tried to end lockdowns earlier than he thought they should. So while Trump may not have signed the lockdowns, he was certainly the godfather of them.


128 posted on 05/20/2023 8:57:59 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Just mythoughts

“Please define ‘conservative’... I keep reading ‘trans’ Republicans using it but NONE will define the word..”

Please define “trans” Republicans. It’s a new term I am unfamiliar with.

If you don’t know the definition of conservative by now .... considering that you’ve been a member since 2002....

there is no way I can help you with that.


129 posted on 05/20/2023 8:58:32 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Just mythoughts
It is not a good thing to waste a mind over PA voting for a mental patient..

We have a mental patient for a Senator in Pennsylvania because Trump sabotaged the true conservative and installed a carpetbagging leftist as our nominee.

DeSantis helped craft much of the legislation he signed. He didn't just wait for things to hit his desk. He took an active role in crafting the conservative policies that have benfitted Floridians far more than the policies enacted by 6-time loser Trump.....who only got one major piece of legislation passed, a tax cut that is about to expire.

You cultists cannot even give DeSantis credit for the good he has done. You look for ways to take away his accomplishments. You are no different than Democrats.

130 posted on 05/20/2023 9:06:06 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Trump keeps shooting himself in the foot. It’s a fatal character flaw.
https://www.learnreligions.com/the-sin-of-pride-according-to-the-bible-5080290


131 posted on 05/20/2023 9:07:37 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: enduserindy

you still belong....Freerpublic is one of the older conservative social network sites on internet and Trump candacy actually exists because it is several groups coming together under populism not conservatism, but conservatism is a key group in the coalition. just be critical of those who stray from conservatism. take away your voice and we all suffer. I myself was sickened by the statement Trump made and feel that it is a slimy move on trumps part.


132 posted on 05/20/2023 9:10:20 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: icclearly

“If my memory serves me correctly, it was Trump who turned our collective COVID treatment over to the likes of Fauci, Brix, and Pfizer. How’d that work out?”

It’s nitwits like you who who are infuriating as becoming so much “smarter” AFTER the fact when the dust has settled! Why is it that Trump should NOT be deferring to the leaders in the field who will be addressing the emergency spread of viruses? Was Trump to spend months hunting those experts who he thought could be better than the head of the CDC? How stupid of you.


133 posted on 05/20/2023 9:10:52 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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Let Trump be Trump.


134 posted on 05/20/2023 9:16:50 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: SgtHooper

Trump could have spoken out for small businesses and individual liberty.....but he does not believe in such things.

Instead, he spoke out against those who were ending the lockdowns.

Trump never educated himself on the situation with Covid like DeSantis and other governors did.


135 posted on 05/20/2023 9:19:16 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Trumpette1954
Trump is losing me. That was a really stupid statement by a guy who called Biden a divider. What does Trump think statements like this do to the Republican party??

The way the GOP primary is shaping up the Republican party is going to be fractured headed into November 2024. Trump's attacks are going to lead to a scenario where if Trump wins the primary DeSantis supporters won't vote for Trump or if DeSantis wins the primary he won't pick up enough of Trump's voters.

There's nothing wrong with healthy debate between Trump and DeSantis, but Trump praising the likes of Cuomo isn't the way. It's coming off as if Trump doesn't win, then he going to make sure no GOP candidate is going to win in the 2024 election.

Sorry Trump, but you're not that important. Biden needs to be removed at all costs even if that means Trump doesn't win the GOP nomination. There won't be a country left worth saving in 2028 with a second Biden term.
136 posted on 05/20/2023 9:22:39 AM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

This is idiotic on the factual basis of the claim. Ignores all kinds of Biden created fedgov aggression against the State of Florida to get people who had early Covid— real effective treatment (example: the central pharmacy of fedgov restricted the requested quantities of monoclonal antibodies . Biden’s “czars” did not send them, so the Governor ordered them from other sources using fed and State money to get them to people. A huge action that saved a lot of lives, of poor and middle class people. Administered in stadiums around the State).

Don’t know who is coming up with this obvious crap- but they need to stop- this cannot benefit Trump even if he thinks he can troll moron dems. Blacks know what Trump did for them, and blacks also know that monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin and other “alternative” therapies were made available— and that NEVER happened in Cuomo’s killing fields of NY.


137 posted on 05/20/2023 9:28:32 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SgtHooper
Why is it that Trump should NOT be deferring to the leaders in the field who will be addressing the emergency spread of viruses? Was Trump to spend months hunting those experts who he thought could be better than the head of the CDC? How stupid of you.

Yes, Trump was so smart because after being attacked, hounded and slandered by the Deep State apparatus, he put full faith in it during Covid.

Even DeSantis fired his Surgeon General during Covid and replaced him with a Covid realist and vaccine skeptic.

But you go ahead and excuse Trump for trusting the Deep State and never wavering in that support, even after all the evidence to the contrary came out.

138 posted on 05/20/2023 9:30:14 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: SgtHooper
Was Trump to spend months hunting those experts who he thought could be better than the head of the CDC?

YES!

139 posted on 05/20/2023 9:33:47 AM PDT by icclearly
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To: enduserindy

Yes, those truths, and using the “Village People” queer disco song “YMCA” at rallies—all to appease the urban freaks and single issue fruitcake vote. He is, after all a hotelier.

Taking the Disney/ABC owned side vs. DeSantis is out of his wheelhouse, as it has nothing to do with national issues of private property (in fact, Disney never honored private property the entire time with this cutout demonrat machine laws for the Reedy Creed Development “corp”. They didn’t pay taxes— so maybe that is also “cool” to a “deal” for real estate that has f’d up the entire FL state with these freaks and paedos. The defense of Disney flies in the face of the paedo members of Disney management arrested repeatedly by Lake and Orange County Sheriffs for human trafficking. Somehow the “advisors” missed this story. Again, though- the trump org is a hotelier hires toots and “attention to detail” workers for their properties— to attend to customer’s every whim. Pampered to be paid more to the org. How it works. The rest of the real world does not live this way.

All that said— on the world stage and in MAGA preference to give the US back it’s world sovereignty Trump’s any other candidate. Period.


140 posted on 05/20/2023 9:36:20 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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