href=”https://floridapolitics.com/archives/491681-ron-desantis-denounces-democratic-smears-in-wake-of-orlando-area-nazi-demonstration/”>Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday discussed a demonstration by neo-Nazis in Orlando over the weekend but spent more time dragging Democrats and mainstream political opponents than the neo-Nazis themselves.
The Governor, who was in Palm Beach County talking infrastructure, was asked by reporters to respond to the neo-Nazi demonstration. DeSantis was personally silent on the matter up until Monday afternoon.
“So what I’m going to say is these people, these Democrats who are trying to use this as some type of political issue to try to smear me as if I had something to do with it, we’re not playing their game,” DeSantis said.
“Some jackasses doing this on the street, first of all, state law enforcement is going to hold them accountable because they were doing stuff on the overpass. So they’re absolutely going to do that, and they should do that,” DeSantis added before going back on the political counteroffensive.
“But I’m not going to have people try to smear me who belong to a political party that has elevated antisemites to the halls of Congress,” DeSantis said, singling out Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
“They even have people in their party that have cavorted with (Louis) Farrakhan,” DeSantis said, with every comment getting farther away from the weekend’s central events.
Over the weekend, a group of neo-Nazis reportedly lined a bridge in eastern Orange County, hanging the swastika flag and banners and yelling profanities and antisemitic slurs at passing cars.
“They tried to play games; they tried to politicize. Why would they do that? Why would they want to elevate a half-dozen malcontents and try to make this an issue for political gain?” DeSantis asked. “Because they want to distract from the failure that we’ve seen with Joe Biden.”
Democrats are “tied at the hip” with Biden, DeSantis argued.
“We’re not going to let them get away with these stupid things where they’re trying to smear somebody unfairly. I will not be smeared by them, and that’s the reality,” DeSantis vowed.
De Santis is right. He should NOT be commenting about eleven people. They would LOVE the attention and it would give them great networking ability and free publicity.
Does anyone think they would prefer being ignored over the national media attention that they are getting?
Ridiculous. Nazi is a nazi. He comments on anti semites in bds and blm then you need to comment on the ones that have the signs with lets go brandon otherwise you really don’t care about anti semitism but politics. He is an embarrassment. Used it to talk about ilhan omar.
BDS and BLM are major movements.
Eleven thugs looking for attention are not .
BDS and BLM won’t be helped by someone of De Santis’s stature condemning their cause
Eleven thugs looking for attention will be helped beyond their wildest expectation by having De Santis comment on them
That’s the twisted liberal ideology, Selective tolerance.
You tolerate looters, violent criminals release from jail. Harassment of political rivals by using your power given to you by the people against their will. Trump was undisputed elected by the people only to be harassed by taxpayer dollars. Even before jan 6 he was bullied by politicians. Nobody disputes that crime is rampant in some communities, yet the criminals from these communities are the first freed from prison. They do the crime again and again yet our da’s and prosecutors are out for political revenge against their foes. They are hell bent over their political career and will trample anybody in their way.
Fact. Crime in the black community is way higher than other communities.
Crime committed by muslims (including non protected speech) is rampant.
Yet you’re labeled racist for pointing it out. Do these terrorist politicians try to rectify the issue or use the black community to advance their careers, call you islamaphobe while promoting the evil few from that community because after all, they are from your own party.
I love this guy . Desantis 2024!!!!!
Except he’s lying (something he does often).
The political issue is that he denied at first that they were Nazis, and now is trying to hide his earlier stupidity. From the Times if Israel: DeSantis, considered a possible 2024 Republican presidential candidate, had not commented until Monday, and his spokesperson expressed doubt over whether the demonstrators were actually antisemitic, and raised the possibility that they were in fact Democrats trying to make the governor look bad.
Now he admits they were Nazis, and in true politician mode deflects and blames the Democrats for his own stupidity.
It should be the easiest thing in the world to put out a Tweet condemning Nazis. DeSantis can’t even do that. Some White Supremicist groups helped him get elected and it looks like he is incapable of distancing himself from them.
“Some White Supremicist groups helped him get elected”
Sources please? Names please? We will not allow false accusations to be thrown out in this forum.
DeSantis 2024
This is why he unfortunately won’t make a good presidential candidate. He gets flustered too easily. And you can bet that the media will try to fluster and play gotcha with him as much as possible, especially once they see how well it works. This is a problem that the Republican candidate will face much more than the Democratic candidate, because of media bias.
The other problem is that, frankly, he just doesn’t seem like that smart a guy. Not stupid, but not exceptionally bright either. We can all agree that being U.S. president is a really hard job, and extra brain power is useful for doing it well.
I really hope that the parties come up with one or even two presidential candidates in 2024 whom one can vote for with enthusiasm.
pompeo is going to wash the floor with him. DeSantis is currently using the money that he got from Biden for all his grants, but pompeo is going to stomp him pretty good. Good riddance.
Leave the good Governor alone.
He deserves our appreciation and support