Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to questions from reporters about a recent negative social media post about him from former President Donald Trump.
A TruthSocial entry from Trump on Feb. 7 included a somewhat blurry old photo that the original poster claimed showed DeSantis allegedly having drinks with underage girls. The photo was re-shared on Trump’s profile along with the caption “That’s not Ron, is it? He would never do such a thing!”
The original poster added an explanation following the first re-post by Trump, saying that “Ron DeSantis was having a ‘drink’ party with his students when he was a high school teacher,” along with several negative comments about the Florida governor. Trump’s “re-truthed” photo had verbiage claiming that DeSantis was “grooming” high school girls.
DeSantis responded to the accusation on Feb. 8 when a journalist asked how DeSantis’s proposed changes to defamation laws might address the posts.
The governor started his comments by saying he understands “you guys want the controversy,” but that defamation is different for him because he has such a large platform and can “fight back.”
“I [have] faced defamatory stuff every single day I’ve been governor. That’s just the nature of it. But I have a platform to fight back. A lot of these other people that are more little, they don’t necessarily have a platform … And so in terms of our reforms, I really wanna empower them more so than people that occupy high positions like me.
The Republican, fast rising in the party, also asserted he “would not take time out of being governor to be fighting lawsuits” before seeming to nod toward Trump, saying, “I spend my time delivering results for the people of Florida and fighting against Joe Biden. That’s how I spend my time. I don’t spend my time trying to smear other Republicans.”
The journalist who questioned the governor was referencing a panel that DeSantis hosted on Feb. 7 discussing large media companies’ potentially libelous speech, as The Epoch Times previously reported.
The panel deliberated over the 1964 Supreme Court decision on New York Times v. Sullivan, where the court laid down a standard that made it difficult for public figures claiming a media outlet lied about them to prevail in libel lawsuits.
DeSantis didn’t announce any libel-law reforms but hinted some might be upcoming. “We’ll be having more to say about a whole bunch of different issues over the next couple of weeks. So stay tuned.”
“The Republican (Ron Desantis), fast rising in the party, also asserted he “would not take time out of being governor to be fighting lawsuits” before seeming to nod toward Trump, saying, “I spend my time delivering results for the people of Florida and fighting against Joe Biden. That’s how I spend my time. I don’t spend my time trying to smear other Republicans.””
This show the good leadership character of Ron Desantis.
Romans 12:20-21 “If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Trump’s latest DeSantis personal attack performance reminds me of a fiery Michael Jackson hair raising Pepsi commercial out-take. The more takes he tried to film, the worse things got. He should have quit after the first try. Trump’s “grooming Posts” will end up the same way as Michaels burning head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t34S3AwvH_Q
AND it proves Trump is NOT OUR man for 2024.
Proof positive that you can take the man out of the Democrat party of dirty tricks and lies, but you can’t take the Democrat party dirty tricks and lies out of the man. Trump is suffering from a version of his own Self-named Derangement syndrome, and obviously spent way too many years in New York as a Democrat, who unlike Reagan who vowed never to speak ill of a fellow Republican, still has recurring bouts of the Liberal insanity that no vaccine seems able remove from his own age depleted immune system. His fits of insecurity are like recurring attacks of the gout, that will cripple his campaign into the walking dead if he doesn’t get a grip, to allow the best man with the best ideas, and the best moral integrity to win the crown of George Washington integrity, not grasp the crown like the one Imperial Napoleon snatched from the hands of the Cardinals crowning himself the French King of soon to be lost opportunity to be great, leaving hundreds of thousands of casualties in his wake.
I am so done with Trump and his ridiculous rants. No way can I ever see someone so deranged being president again. I voted for him twice, but this last election pushed him over the edge. It’s obvious that he has too much time and money on his hands
You’re not the only one done with him.