LOL Trump: DeSantis ‘Begged’ for Endorsement With ‘Tears’ in His Eyes https://www.thedailybeast.com/donal...begged-for-endorsement-with-tears-in-his-eyes
Within hours of your post... Trump came out and stated he would not support the Republican 2024 candidate unless it was him. If it ain't him then get ready for an independent candidacy. Trump Reminds Republicans He’s Willing to Ditch the GOP https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/trump-reminds-republicans-hes-willing-to-ditch-the-gop.html
Yeah, I dunno. As I said "we are in the happy horseshit talk" election foreplay period. I can clearly see that Trump may very well not get the nomination but would have to see what that looks like. Hypothetically, a candidate could not get the nomination and the polls and primary votes show that there is little to no support. What do you do with that? Or hypothetically, a candidate - sort of a Bernie type for example- could get a massive number of votes, poll high, and can make a credible argument that he is a populist and the voters want him. Two different scenarios. But important differences. Remains to be seen where Trump will fall on that continuum. Fundraising, getting on ballots and all of that are hurdles. There are lots of things that Trump can do third party if he just wants to do revenge damage to republicans. But if his goal is to actually win, well, that's another matter.
Trump goes after the pedo in Florida. No, not that one. The other one. So Trump claims that Ron DeSantis is just like Matt Gaetz. Trump launches vicious new attack on Ron DeSantis https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...icious-new-attack-on-ron-desantis/ar-AA17dy4h Former President Donald Trump shared a post on his Truth Social platform that insinuated, without evidence, that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) groomed underage girls while he was a high school teacher, the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. "The post linked to a Truth Social Account that grabbed a digital image of a young man with a bowl haircut who appears to be DeSantis surrounded by three young women," reported Geoff Earle. "One of them, who has her arm around the now-Florida governor, is smiling and appears to be holding a brown glass bottle." The post he shared said, "Ron DeSantis was having a 'drink' party with his students when he was a high school teacher. Having drinks with underage girls and cuddling with them certainly look pretty gross and ephebophiliaesque" — a term that refers to adults being attracted to teenagers. "No way?" Trump wrote while amplifying the post from another user. In another post, he wrote, "That's not Ron, is it? He would never do such a thing!" There is no evidence the people in the image were "underage" or that DeSantis did anything sexual with them. However, a New York Times piece last year extensively documented how DeSantis, when he was working as a high school teacher in Georgia, frequently showed up to party with students, which — while it wasn't breaking any laws — made some people uncomfortable. DeSantis, who was elected governor in 2018 with Trump's endorsement, has gradually fallen out of favor in his orbit as Republican consultants, donors, and media personalities have lined up behind him as a potential presidential candidate for 2024, which — if he were to declare a run — would make him a direct competitor to Trump's own bid to retake the White House. Trump has already gone on offense against DeSantis, nicknaming him "Ron DeSanctimonious" and attacking him as a "RINO globalist." He has also refused to commit to supporting the Republican Party in 2024 if he fails to secure the nomination.
DeSantis Responds to Trump Pervert Accusations From Between Towers of Diapers Groomer accuser attacked by groomer accuser. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/trump-desantis-groomer-diapers-2024.html
Donald Trump Is Starting to Look Completely Desperate https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/02/donald-trump-is-starting-to-look-completely-desperate/ Donald Trump, in his latest salvo at the Florida governor and likely future primary opponent, implied that Gov. Ron DeSantis acted inappropriately during his stint as a private school teacher in the early 2000s. Accusing political opponents and enemies of pedophilia, “grooming,” or other inappropriate sexual behavior, with little-to-no evidence, has become an outsized part of the conservative playbook in recent years. It appears to have grown out of Pizzagate and QAnon, conspiracy theories about large numbers of Democrats and Hollywood figures executing a massive pedophile ring. Still, it’s begun to be used by Republicans against each other. And that means Donald Trump is getting ready to sling some serious political mud. Donald Trump vs. Ron DeSantis Gets Serious Former President Donald Trump did just that this week, sharing a post on Truth Social implying certain things about his latest enemy and likely future political opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. That Ron DeSantis has been one of the leading figures on the right who have accused others of grooming has apparently not saved him from such attacks. On Tuesday, the former president shared a pair of posts that others had posted to Truth Social, showing a young DeSantis appearing to be drinking at a party with three young women. One of the posts, using Trump’s nickname for DeSantis, stated “Here is Ron DeSanctimonious grooming high school girls with alcohol as a teacher.” The photo appears to have originated from a 2021 piece on the anti-Trump website Hill Reporter, which was founded by the left-leaning Trump-era social media personalities Ed and Brian Krassenstein. That piece alleged that during DeSantis’ time as a teacher at a private school in Georgia, when he was in his early 20s, the future governor “had a reputation among students for being a young ‘hot teacher’ who girls loved.” Last November, the New York Times did a piece on DeSantis’ time at that school, which drew more attention to comments DeSantis supposedly made in class about the Civil War not being about slavery. But even at the time, the piece was seen as something of a dud, and few of the revelations have been mentioned much in political discourse since. The Times piece did note that DeSantis “was a frequent presence at parties with the seniors who lived in town.” In referencing the Hill Reporter story and the photo, the Times added that “two former students, both women, remembered him attending at least two parties where alcohol was served, but they said that the parties took place after graduation and that they were not bothered by his presence at the time.” At any rate, there has been no evidence presented by anyone that DeSantis acted in a sexually inappropriate manner with students or anyone else. The accusations, meanwhile, have set off battles between influencers of the right, with Trump’s past ties to Jeffrey Epstein also being invoked. In other Truth Social posts Tuesday, Trump posted an old tweet of his from 2018, calling for the Florida governor and Senate races to be called, on account of “large numbers of new ballots that showed up out of nowhere” in DeSantis’ race for governor that year and Rick Scott’s for Senate. “Dear DeSantis 2024 brothers: you hate Trump’s obsession with elections fraud? Well, his obsession with election fraud saved your boy, DeSantis.” This implies that Trump’s tweet was the only thing that caused DeSantis to win his governor’s race in 2018, which does not appear to be true. Trump also shared a news story from 2021, stating that DeSantis was “glad” that “violent protestors” were arrested for their roles in the January 6 Capitol riot. “What about ANTIFA & BLM, Ron?” he said. Ron DeSantis is not officially in the presidential race yet but is expected to announce his candidacy this spring. Whether he or Donald Trump is currently ahead in the polls is a matter of some dispute, depending on which poll, which methodology, and how the questions are asked by the pollsters.
Trump is now referring to GOP rival DeSantis as 'Meatball Ron' and 'Shutdown Ron' as ex-president tries to paint Florida governor as a lockdown hypocrite who closed his state Donald Trump has ramped up his attacks against Ron DeSantis in recent weeks DeSantis has not yet declared his intent to run for the White House but his refusal to rule out a 2024 challenge to Trump has angered the ex-president Trump has also privately called DeSantis 'Shutdown Ron,' according to report https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11742767/Trump-DeSantis-Meatball-Ron-report.html
This is how Trump plans on dealing with the "Meatball Ron" problem. Trump Is Plotting How to Kick DeSantis ‘In the Nuts.’ Here’s His Playbook, So Far Team Trump is preparing to paint the Florida governor as an establishment hawk who'll put Social Security on the chopping block https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...gainst-ron-desantis-2024-election-1234663645/