IT’S WAR: Trump Unloads On DeSantis After Midterms

Former President Trump has released a long statement deriding his relationship with Gov. Ron DeSantis after the Florida Republican easily held onto his seat during a midterm election cycle that delivered a series of losses for Trump-endorsed candidates in pivotal races, Axios reports.

The former president branded his potential 2024 rival as an “average” Republican who owes his political success to Trump’s endorsement in the 2018 governor’s race. He also lashed out at DeSantis’ responses to questions about his own 2024 ambitions.

“The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, ‘I’m only focused on the Governor’s race, I’m not looking into the future,'” Trump said in the statement. “Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer.”

Trump added, “Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017—he was politically dead, losing in a landslide … Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win.”

Some other comments Trump made:

• “When I endorsed him, it was as though, to use a bad term, a nuclear weapon went off,” he continued. “I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart.”
• “And now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games!”
• “This is just like 2015 and 2016, a Media Assault (Collusion!), when Fox News fought me to the end until I won, and then they couldn’t have been nicer or more supportive.”

Trump has taken shots at DeSantis multiple times in the past week, including using the nickname Ron “DeSanctimonious” at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.

{Matzav.com}