Florida governor, Ron DeSantis remained tight-lipped surrounding the possibility of the former president’s indictment this week, sending Trumpworld into a spin.
Allies of former President Donald Trump are taking increasingly bigger swings at Ron DeSantis as it becomes clearer that the Florida governor could jump into the 2024 presidential campaign.
As DeSantis remained silent over the weekend on Trump’s looming legal problems, Trumpworld returned to doing what they do best: hurling even more attacks at the Florida governor. This time around, Trump cronies criticized DeSantis for not denouncing a so-far nonexistent Trump indictment. The uproar on social media left one Trumpworld pundit calling on DeSantis to phone up the National Guard to protect Trump from being extradited to face justice.
“Your silence on President Trump’s leaked indictment and his potential extradition and arrest by NY prosecutorial communist thugs is deafening,” pro-Trump radio host John Fredericks tweeted. “Trump is a resident of your state. You can no longer hide behind book tours & expensive DC consultants.”
The right-wing radio host and Steve Bannon ally added: “You have to choose between your Wall Street gangster-bankster big donor hedge fund open border benefactors-or us. Who do you choose to stand with, Ron?”
That’s just a taste of—but far from the only—frustration that’s begun to boil over in Trumpworld over DeSantis staying silent about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into the former president.
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Conservatives Rally Around President Trump
Republicans have rallied around President Trump in response to the news that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg plans to abuse his power and bring forward bogus charges
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy: “Here we go again — an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump. I’m directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”
Senator J.D. Vance: “I’ve been asked by multiple reporters if an indictment would lead me to rescind my endorsement of Donald Trump. The answer is: hell no. A politically motivated prosecution makes the argument for Trump stronger. We simply don’t have a real country if justice depends on politics.”
Senator Eric Schmitt: “Trump Derangement Syndrome does not provide legal cover. The public rightfully expects prosecutors to carry out our responsibilities without political prejudice. Indictments, investigations and incarceration to settle political scores shows a deep contempt for the rule of law.”
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik: “What these corrupt leftist prosecutors like Alvin Bragg and their socialist allies fail to understand is that America First Patriots have never been so energized to exercise their constitutional rights to peacefully organize and vote at the ballot box to save our great republic.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz: “Virtually every campaign finance violation involves either 1) spending other people’s money illegally or 2) taking money into your campaign that you shouldn’t. Trump did neither. He used his own money to resolve a private dispute, irrespective of any campaign.
The impending indictment is based on an untested, tortured legal theory. This is an absurd abuse of the criminal process in our politics. It must be seen for the partisan pathetic ploy it is.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: “If the Manhattan DA indicts President Trump, he will ultimately win even bigger than he is already going to win. And those Republicans that stand by and cheer for his persecution or do nothing to stop it will be exposed to the people and will be remembered, scorned, and punished by the base.
President Trump did nothing wrong and has always fought for the American people, and we all know it, which is why we love him. And any Republican who thinks the Democrats will stop this madness once Trump is out of the way is fooling themselves.
Weaponized Government and Political Persecution are new chapters in their playbook and they will use those methods against anyone who stands in their way. And we are absolutely fed up with the two-tiered justice system or rather the INJUSTICE system in America.
The base has had enough of Republicans that won’t stand up for the people and against the Democrats war against Trump, his admin, his supporters, and traditional values.”
Rep. Cory Mills: “The recent announcement and blatant politically motivated targeting of Donald Trump from NY’s AG Bragg is EXACTLY what Americans have come to expect. He’s shown his soft on crime, no bail reform policies for violent criminals, but targets a Fmr. President.”
Rep. Wesley Hunt: “The radical left would have you believe that they are protecting Democracy, when in fact, many of them are working to destroy it. What is happening to President Trump is an assault on the Constitution I swore an oath to defend in combat, and in Congress.”
Rep. Russell Fry: “This is just unreal! The Left has ruthlessly tried to sideline President Trump since he first started fighting for the American people. This is just one more unprecedented and legally suspect attack against the President coming from a rogue DA furthering his own political agenda.
Radio host Clay Travis: “The same people who told you Donald Trump was a direct threat to American democracy are about to indict the chief political rival of their party and try to put him in jail. This has never happened before in American history. The Democrats under Joe Biden — and their media allies — are everything they told you Trump was — the actual authoritarian dictators hell-bent on complete political power.”
Former Congressman Peter King: “The only crime here is being committed by Alvin Bragg, who to me is abusing his duties, his rights, his obligations as a prosecutor.
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COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS:
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No one can or will represent you better than you can represent yourself. We don’t need leaders. We need to replace our ‘representative-of-people-who-pay-for-reelection govt’ with a congress comprised of the voters.
They stole Trump’s 10 million vote victory in broad daylight. Only a rank idiot thinks he can win when they run the voting machines.
what will you do when they hold him without bail? Trump should point out that we no longer have a justice system and file a lawsuit against NY DA for malicious prosecution. – Joe A.
ON GETTR:
Dear @GovRonDeSantis It’s a time for choosing. Your silence on President Trump’s leaked indictment & his potential extradition & arrest by NY prosecutorial communist thugs is deafening. Trump is a resident of your state. You can no longer hide behind book tours & expensive DC consultants. You have to choose between your Wall Street gangster-bankster big donor hedge fund open border benefactors-or us. Who do you choose to stand with, Ron? Us-or them?
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