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Originally published at Stone Cold Truth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

When it comes to corruption in the State of Florida, there is no criminal more guilty than Governor Ron DeSantis, and his wife Casey DeSantis, who stole $10 Million from the poorest of Floridians.<\/p>\n

The Hope Florida<\/em> scandal that has enveloped the DeSantis\u2019 throughout the last year has reached a new fevered pitch as CBS News Miami has leaked the entire grand jury presentment against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife, First Lady Casey DeSantis.<\/p>\n

The leaks reveal damning evidence that the grand jury found evidence of severe, and even potentially criminal conduct by the First Family as it pertains to the Centene settlement, in which their appointed officials illegally steered $10 Million into Casey DeSantis\u2019 Hope Florida<\/em> charity.<\/p>\n

Now the DeSantis\u2019 are trying to cover up the information by suing those attempting to expose this information before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

We will examine the depth of the DeSantis\u2019 treachery as it pertains to their theft of $10 Million later within the article, but first, let\u2019s look at DeSantis\u2019 own statements on the matter.<\/p>\n

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis have been clear over the last year. Each time the couple has been asked publicly about the \u2018Hope Florida\u2019 scandal, in which DeSantis and his wife skimmed $10 Million from taxpayers through their own appointed officials and a Medicaid settlement, they have vehemently denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

At times, the Governor has even gone as far as to attack those who dare to ask questions about the scandal. During a press conference in February, DeSantis attacked a reporter for asking questions about the allegations that he and his wife had taken $10 Million from the poorest Floridians, handing it to Casey DeSantis\u2019 own Hope Florida charity, in a settlement with Centene.<\/p>\n

DeSantis scolded the reporter, \u201cPolitical lies!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe said at the beginning. It was a political op, it was a hoax, and we\u2019re at this point, clearly that was true. Our agencies acted in ways that were legally sound and appropriate. That\u2019s the fact. The fact that you wouldn\u2019t have even opened one with DOJ, there was no basis to even do it, I think that\u2019s really telling. It was all a political scam. There was a political agenda,\u201d DeSantis added.<\/p>\n

Thanks to CBS News Miami, we now know just how much Ron DeSantis was really lying about the Hope Florida scandal, and the depths to which he and his wife sunk in order to divert money from needy Floridians to their own political causes. We also have new information on how the scam played out, who helped orchestrate the theft, and who allowed it to happen.<\/p>\n

Not only did Ron DeSantis orchestrate a criminal scheme to swindle poor Floridians out of money for their healthcare. He also lied about it, in public, for over a year. Now, because of the leaks, his lies have been exposed.<\/p>\n

What Is The Hope Florida Scandal?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Casey DeSantis\u2019 \u201cHope Florida\u201d charity received a $10 million payout as part of a 2022 settlement with the state\u2019s largest Medicaid provider at the behest of Florida\u2019s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) – in a clear conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

The money was moved into Hope Florida from the AHCA as part of a $67 million settlement between the AHCA and Medicaid provider Centene regarding alleged overpayments made to pharmacy benefit managers.<\/p>\n

$57 million of this settlement money went back to the taxpayers while $10 million went to Casey DeSantis\u2019 nonprofit, as compelled by the AHCA in the documentation<\/a>. The AHCA denies that this payout involved \u201cthe expenditure of state funds\u201d in a peculiar and deceptive claim designed to dispel legitimate inquiry into the developing scandal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no civil action and this settlement did not require the expenditure of state funds, so no notice was required,\u201d AHCA Deputy Chief of Staff Mallory McManus said in an email to Politico. \u201cThis was a pre-suit settlement in AHCA\u2019s favor that was directed, in part, to the direct support organization which serves a population of individuals traditionally served by AHCA.\u201d<\/p>\n

McManus is a DeSantis hack using weasel words to obfuscate the facts of the matter. The settlement money was clearly meant to go to the people, and yet it ended up in the coffers of Hope Florida. If the AHCA thought this money should be dispersed to nonprofits, why was this money not dispersed to different public health nonprofits? Why was it not evenly distributed between different nonprofits engaged in this sort of work? The answer, of course, is due to political connections.<\/p>\n

The state has been tight-lipped about divulging any further details about the settlement and which parties were involved, only adding to the intrigue and sending signals that the DeSantis family has much to hide. New reports indicate<\/a> that the $10 million may have been funneled into the coffers of an anti-cannabis campaign supported by Hope Florida\u2019s partners at the Florida Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

Records show that Hope Florida gave a $5 million grant to the Florida Chamber\u2019s \u2018Secure Florida\u2019s Future\u2019 front group and an additional $5 million grant to the \u2018Save our Society from Drugs\u2019 organization after receiving the controversial settlement. Both of those organizations then funneled substantial sums of money, close to the amount they received from Hope Florida, to the Keep Florida Clean committee to defeat Amendment 3, a measure to legalize cannabis in Florida, in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

DeSantis even publicly referred to the $10 Million as the \u2018cherry on top\u2019 of the deal with Centene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you do settlements, you can try to get as much money as you can, but this was in addition to what they were getting. This is kind of like a cherry on top where they agreed to make an additional contribution, and so we were served well by what ACHA did,\u201d DeSantis said during a news conference.<\/p>\n

Grand Jury Finds DeSantis Administration Directly Stole Money From Florida\u2019s Poorest Residents<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lost in the reporting on the Hope Florida scandal is the omission by the grand jury that Ron DeSantis and his thugs stole $10 Million directly from the poorest Floridians, endangering their access the basic healthcare.<\/p>\n

Centene\u2019s settlement was based on Medicaid funds, and the grand jury found that all, not some, of the funds negotiated in the $67 Million+ settlement belonged to the defrauded Florida Medicaid recipients.<\/p>\n

As stated previously, DeSantis had previously referred to the $10 Million portion pushed to Hope Florida as a \u2018cherry on top\u2019 of an overall Medicaid settlement. The court thoroughly debunked this argument, which was presented by several DeSantis officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cHence this money was part of the damages Centene owned to Florida\u2019s taxpayers,\u201d the jury found.<\/p>\n

DeSantis Appointee Jason Weida Hid Stolen $10 Million From State Legislature<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The jury went further, concluding that the decision to reduce that portion of the settlement to exactly $10 million was done to circumvent a state law<\/a> requiring any settlements above that threshold be directed to the general revenue fund controlled by state lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Not only did DeSantis and his goons steal $10 Million, but they stole the exact amount necessary to evade any accountability in the process.<\/p>\n

Once a settlement reaches a certain threshold, just over $10 Million, the state legislature has say over where the funds are diverted. Weida and DeSantis carefully crafted the payment to Hope Florida<\/em> to evade this law, and ultimately accountability.<\/p>\n

The official specifically named in this portion of the grand jury presentment is Jason Weida, former secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration and one of four state officials who signed the settlement.<\/p>\n

It also pointed to his decision to reimburse the federal government\u2019s share of recovered Medicaid funds based on the full $67 million settlement.<\/p>\n

DeSantis\u2019 Deputy Chief Of Staff Katie Strickland \u2018Fails To Remember\u2019 Multiple Meetings With Centene On Settlement<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The grand jury made several revelations that implicate Ron DeSantis and Casey DeSantis, as well as many of the officials he has surrounded himself with in the State government. It heard testimony from many DeSantis officials, including Katie Strickland, DeSantis\u2019 Deputy Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n

Strickland oversaw the health care agencies working with Casey DeSantis\u2019 Hope Florida initiative, including the Agency for Health Care Administration which negotiated the deal with Centene.<\/p>\n

Though Casey DeSantis had no official chief of staff, Strickland effectively served in that role. In 2022, Strickland attended at least three meetings about Centene, including one with the CEO of the company\u2019s Florida subsidiary. She was intricately involved in the negotiations.<\/p>\n

The grand jury, however, found Strickland to be completely \u201cuninformative\u201d and \u201cnot credible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strickland, who served as DeSantis\u2019 Deputy Chief of Staff, and the person that would be closest to serving as Casey DeSantis\u2019 Chief of Staff, according to the leaked documents refused to reveal basic information about her contacts with Centene.<\/p>\n

Why did Strickland refuse to speak on the meetings she had in 2022 with Centene? It seems obvious. With her placement overseeing the AHCA, and directly meeting with Centene multiple times in 2022, she would have been intricately involved in the innerworkings of this deal, yet she \u2018couldn\u2019t remember\u2019 enough to provide information.<\/p>\n

Grand Jury Wanted Criminal Charges, But \u2018Amnesia\u2019 Stood In The Way<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Within the leaked resentment it is revealed that the \u2018general amnesia\u2019 of DeSantis officials including Strickland, Weida, and others was the only impediment standing in the way of criminal indictments in the Hope Florida scandal.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t that convenient?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we can\u2019t prove who is responsible, we can plainly see that taxpayer money was misused for political purposes,\u201d jury members wrote.<\/p>\n

In addition to finding the money being used for political purposes, the grand jury also found that Hope Florida<\/em> \u2018mischaracterized\u2019 how it used the diverted money once it was officially received.<\/p>\n

It also found a pattern of diverted funds being misappropriated throughout state government, not just as it pertains to this specific settlement with Centene.<\/p>\n

The DeSantis administration diverted at least $36.2 million in taxpayer resources originally earmarked for healthcare, child welfare, opioid recovery, and aid to vulnerable Floridians, including children, to fund advertising campaigns against various state wide 2024 ballot measures the Governor opposed.<\/p>\n

Critics, including Republican State Rep. Alex Andrade of Pensacola, have alleged rampant corruption, money laundering, and misuse of public funds.<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s take a look at evidence against Hope Florida <\/em>that was revealed during a Florida Legislature hearing last year.<\/p>\n

Florida Legislature Found Ron & Casey\u2019s <\/strong>Hope Florida<\/strong><\/em> Failed to File Basic IRS Paperwork<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Joshua Hay, the head of the Hope Florida<\/em> Foundation, testified that the nonprofit, only a few weeks before the hearing, hired accountants to help it. He said the previous accounting of the foundation, which would included the time when the $10 Million settlement was paid by Centene was done by the Florida Department of Children and Families.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were lapses in reporting procedures; there are lapses in reporting procedures. And the foundation was not provided with the staffing support necessary to ensure all matters were quickly and appropriately handled,\u201d Hay testified.<\/p>\n

Rep. Allison Tant railed against Hope Florida<\/em> for its failure to obtain basic organization paperwork such as bylaws, saying, \u201cI\u2019m just astonished. I\u2019m astonished that you don\u2019t have bylaws, a budget, meeting minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Alex Andrade claimed that he was \u201cstunned\u201d by the organization\u2019s lack of transparency, saying, \u201cI\u2019m more stunned, than anything else, by the responses, the demeanor, the flippancy [toward] the serious questions we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrade added, \u201cI have serious concerns about what might be occurring in the post-dating of documentation in the attempt to justify and cover up what actually happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hope Florida<\/em> Director Joshua Hay admitted during the Legislature\u2019s hearing that Hope Florida<\/em> failed to file basic tax documentation, including its IRS 990 form required to legally accept donations. Hay told lawmakers in Tallahassee, \u201c[There was a] misunderstanding on who was responsible for preparing the tax records for the non-profit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent weeks, the public reporting has made evident that mistakes were made,\u201d Hay added.<\/p>\n

The IRS requires Form 990 to be filed by the 15th day of the 5th month after the organization\u2019s fiscal year ends, and failure to file for three consecutive years can lead to automatic revocation of tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n

Considering that Hope Florida<\/em> has existed since 2021, it would be, under the IRS law, eligible to lose its tax-exempt status for its failure to file.<\/p>\n

Hope Florida<\/strong><\/em> Doesn\u2019t Even Have Headquarters, State Legislature Finds<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It was also revealed in the Florida State legislature hearing that Hope Florida<\/em> does not have a headquarters or an actual place of operation.<\/p>\n

The Hope Florida<\/em> Foundation was found to lack a dedicated office or building, operating instead in a nebulous capacity without a verifiable headquarters, raising additional questions about the organization\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n

Hope Florida<\/strong><\/em> Only Gave $500k To Needy Families<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Joshua Hay, the Hope Florida Foundation\u2019s chair, testified that the foundation had distributed \u201cnorth of $10 million\u201d in grants, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel.<\/p>\n

However, lawmakers challenged this, noting that campaign finance records and foundation documents showed only about $500,000 in smaller grants to individuals and organizations, excluding the two $5 million grants to Securing Florida\u2019s Future and Save Our Society from Drugs, which totaled $10 million.<\/p>\n

Rep. Marie Woodson hammered Hay over this, asking him, \u201cI\u2019m struggling to understand how you can claim such a large amount of grants when the actual impact on Floridians seems so small. Where is the money really going?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Andrade stated about the lack of funds distributed to Floridians, \u201cYou\u2019re telling us you\u2019ve granted over $10 million, but when we look at the numbers, it\u2019s clear the vast majority went to two questionable groups, not to helping Floridians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poorest of Florida residents were taken advantage of by their Governor, who directly stole $10 Million from them, illegally diverting the money to charity controlled by his wife, who then funneled the money to support political causes backed by the Governor.<\/p>\n

Despite attempting to portray themselves as helping the needy with Hope Florida, all available evidence on the organization portrays it as nothing more than a front for Ron and Casey to divert millions of taxpayer dollars, and to funnel it to the political causes that matter to them most.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether or not the DeSantis\u2019 will ever face justice for their clear criminal conduct. The only reason this grand jury failed to produce a criminal indictment is the \u2018general amnesia\u2019 no-doubt coordinated by the DeSantis team heading into the trial.<\/p>\n

For Americans, this is a shining example of what Ron DeSantis and his family are capable of doing with access to power. No mother is safe, no child is cared for, and the hard-earned tax dollars that are taken from you, the American people, to be used to care for the sick, and elderly, are nowhere near safe when the DeSantis\u2019 are near.<\/p>\n

Though the grand jury found that the funds diverted to Hope Florida <\/em>were misappropriated for political use, they failed to bring criminal indictments. Will the DeSantis\u2019 skirt accountability forever?<\/p>\n

The Republican Party of Florida is threatening criminal prosecution of television stations, the Democratic Party and, by the terms of its own legal theory, anyone who repeats a Leon County grand jury\u2019s finding<\/a> that high-ranking state officials diverted $10 million in the Hope Florida scandal.<\/p>\n

The facts here are pretty clear. Ron and Casey DeSantis diverted $10 million in federal Medicaid funds to a Dark money political committee that they used to fund a constitutional statewide amendment campaign. This money was earmarked for the poorest of Floridians, as well as the handicapped. James Uthmeier, then the governor\u2019s Chief of Staff, but now the appointed Attorney General, facilitated the transfer.<\/p>\n

Casey DeSantis\u2019 \u201cHope Florida\u201d charity received a $10 million payout as part of a settlement with the state\u2019s largest Medicaid provider at the behest of Florida\u2019s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) \u2013 in a clear conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

The money was moved into Hope Florida from the AHCA as part of a $67 million settlement between the AHCA and Medicaid provider Centene regarding alleged overpayments made to pharmacy benefit managers. $57 million of this settlement money went back to the taxpayers while $10 million went to Casey DeSantis\u2019 nonprofit, as compelled by the AHCA in the documentation<\/a>. The AHCA denies that this payout involved \u201cthe expenditure of state funds\u201d in a peculiar and deceptive claim designed to dispel legitimate inquiry into the developing scandal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no civil action and this settlement did not require the expenditure of state funds, so no notice was required,\u201d AHCA Deputy Chief of Staff Mallory McManus said in an email to Politico. \u201cThis was a pre-suit settlement in AHCA\u2019s favor that was directed, in part, to the direct support organization which serves a population of individuals traditionally served by AHCA.\u201d<\/p>\n

McManus is a DeSantis hack using weasel words to obfuscate the facts of the matter. The settlement money<\/a> was clearly meant to go to the people, and yet it ended up in the coffers of Hope Florida. If the AHCA thought this money should be dispersed to nonprofits, why was this money not dispersed to different public health nonprofits? Why was it not evenly distributed between different nonprofits engaged in this sort of work? The answer, of course, is due to political connections.<\/p>\n

The state has been tight-lipped about divulging any further details about the settlement and which parties were involved, only adding to the intrigue and sending signals that the DeSantis family has much to hide. Reports indicate<\/a> that the $10 million may have been funneled into the coffers of an anti-cannabis campaign supported by Hope Florida\u2019s partners at the Florida Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

Records show that Hope Florida gave a $5 million grant to the Florida Chamber\u2019s \u2018Secure Florida\u2019s Future\u2019 front group and an additional $5 million grant to the \u2018Save our Society from Drugs\u2019 organization after receiving the controversial settlement. Both of those organizations then funneled substantial sums of money, close to the amount they received from Hope Florida, to the Keep Florida Clean committee to defeat Amendment 3, a measure to legalize cannabis in Florida, in last year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

Republican lawmakers, whose state-mandated oversight of these funds was sidestepped, are not convinced by the DeSantis spin and continue to demand answers into what very well may be an illegal payout.<\/p>\n

Then Attorney General Ashley Moody, now appointed to the US Senate, approved the transaction. The Florida State House held revelatory hearings on the matter. Ultimately the perpetrators returned the $10 million but took it from state Medicare funds not from their political coffers to which the money they grabbed had flown.<\/p>\n

When initially asked about the illicit transfer Governor Desantis urged reports to ask his wife since the Hope project was \u201cher thing,\u201d referencing his wife.<\/p>\n

The Governors defenders claimed that $10 millions dollars came from a fine that had been levied against a company caught over-charging the Medicare System. This argument does not hold water because the fines still belonged to the State Medicare system and should have been used to fund the Medicare program not to illicitly fund a campaign against those \u201cDesanti\u201d ,as I call them, oppose.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that this is an egregious violation of both state and federal law, a grand jury in Orange County released a \u201cpresentment\u201d rather than indictments and sealed those documents, so people (also known as voters) would not know precisely what had transpired<\/p>\n

This grand jury presentment leaked and was widely reported in the media. Citing the revelations of that grand jury presentment in public is not in any way a crime since the grand jury proceedings have not been challenged as in authentic or inaccurate and are now in the public domain.<\/p>\n

This scandal does not touch Republican Governor nominee Byron Donalds, who has not defended the actions but has referred reporters questioning him about it to Governor DeSantis for answers.<\/p>\n

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In a lawsuit filed late Friday night and a letter sent the same day to station managers across Central Florida, the party argues that the grand jury\u2019s report and its findings became contraband on Oct. 7, when a state appeals court ordered the report erased.<\/p>\n

Under the party\u2019s theory, broadcasting the report\u2019s \u201ccontent, gist, or import\u201d is now a first-degree misdemeanor and criminal contempt of court.<\/p>\n

It also requested that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and prosecutors investigate the media stations.<\/p>\n

The verified complaint, filed in Highlands County circuit court, asks a judge to issue a temporary restraining order without notice to the other side. It names the Florida Democratic Party, three of four statewide Democratic candidates, and the owners of 11 television stations in the Orlando and Tampa Bay markets, including WFTV, WESH, WKMG, WOFL, WTVT, WFLA, WTSP and WFTS.<\/p>\n

The target is a 30-second spot paid for by the Democratic Party and approved by David Jolly for governor, Jose Javier Rodriguez for attorney general, and Annette Taddeo for chief financial officer.<\/p>\n

The ad says: \u201cA leaked grand jury report found taxpayer money was quietly moved into a dark money political committee that James Uthmeier controlled, not to Florida families. They found $10 million was misappropriated.\u201d It closes with the words \u201cconspiracy, concealment, corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uthmeier, the sitting attorney general, is on the Nov. 3 ballot. The Republican Party\u2019s complaint describes him as \u201cthe candidate the advertisement targets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The suit rests on the First District Court of Appeal\u2019s Oct. 7 opinion, written by Judge Lance Neff, ordering the 116-page presentment expunged \u201cin its entirety.\u201d That ruling, as the Trident <\/em>has reported<\/a>, was issued after the only party fighting to make the report public was kept from learning the appeal existed. Highly unsavory.<\/p>\n

Under the Court\u2019s own rules, the ruling is not final until 15 days after it was entered, or until disposition of any motion for rehearing. At the earliest, the ruling would not go into effect until this Friday. When asked whether the lawsuit filed was premature since the ruling is not yet final, Republican Party of Florida chair Evan Power told the media \u201cthey\u2019re not going to change their minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the appellate court has ordered State Attorney Jack Campbell to explain why the court should not appoint a special master to investigate how the unredacted grand jury report reached the media and whether the court\u2019s injunction was violated.<\/p>\n

The court order also instructed Campbell to demonstrate why he should not be sanctioned for an Aug. 26 email to lawyers for Uthmeier and others suggesting that a clerk of the appeals court or the Leon County Clerk was responsible for the leak, and why he should not be referred to the Florida Bar for discipline. Campbell is required to provide answers under oath within five days.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party argues the ruling changed the legal status of the report\u2019s contents. Because the grand jury summarized witness testimony, the party says, anyone who knowingly broadcasts the \u201ccontent, gist, or import\u201d of that testimony violates section 905.27 of the Florida Statutes. A violation is a first-degree misdemeanor and criminal contempt of court.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe law then is straightforward,\u201d party lawyer Benjamin Gibson of Shutts & Bowen wrote to station managers on Friday. \u201cKnowingly broadcasting advertisements built on the contents of the confidential Presentment is criminal conduct in Florida.\u201d No lawyer I know agrees with this twisted analysis of the law.<\/p>\n

Gibson\u2019s letter went further than the lawsuit. It told the stations the party was \u201creferring this matter to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and relevant prosecutorial authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Copies went to FDLE Commissioner Larry Keefe, Statewide Prosecutor Brad McVay, and the state attorneys in 11 of Florida\u2019s 20 judicial circuits. McVay works in Uthmeier\u2019s office. With Uthmeier on the ballot and a party to the transfer this makes this an egregious conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have not responded in Court but a serious rebuttal on the law is expected. It makes sense why the Republican Party of Florida under the direction of Ron DeSantis would want to cover this story up.<\/p>\n

Everyone should remain mindful that if elected Governor Byron Donalds would have the authority to in essence appoint a Special Prosecutor under Florida Statue 27-14 to examine this article afresh.<\/p>\n

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The only reason the DeSantis\u2019 are not currently under indictment for their conduct is the \u2018general amnesia\u2019 of their staff while they were being questioned by the grand jury, and before the State Legislature which found that they misappropriated the funds.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s the insurance crisis, skyrocketing utility rates, or deep corruption, Ron DeSantis is not the governor he wants you to think he is. He didn\u2019t even stand up for Floridians, as he falsely claims, during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

DeSantis locked down his state, pushed COVID vaccinations, and later changed the narrative to suit his invented career narrative. More egregiously he betrayed the man who lifted from from obscurity and catapulted him to the Governor\u2019s office<\/p>\n

Ron DeSantis is a fraud, and he will never be President of the United States.<\/p>\n

DeSantis\u2019 Betrayal Of President Donald Trump<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In addition to being one of the most openly corrupt governors in the United States, Ron DeSantis has also been a treacherous, back-stabbing traitor for his entire political career. DeSantis even betrayed President Donald Trump, the man that made his political career.<\/p>\n

In 2018, President Donald Trump\u2019s tweeted endorsement catapulted virtual unknown Ron DeSantis to the Florida Republican gubernatorial nomination over Party favorite agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam, Trump asked Wiles to step in and right what was a rocky general election campaign against Democrat nominee and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, whose career would later crash when he was exposed in a sex and drug scandal.<\/p>\n

DeSantis had little money, and was critiqued by Florida political insiders as having little-to-no campaign structure, poor organization, and an overall lack of professionalism. When DeSantis accused his opponent Gillum of wanting to \u201cmonkey up\u201d the Florida economy with tax increases, DeSantis\u2019 comments were widely condemned as \u2018racist.\u2019<\/p>\n

DeSantis was also having trouble raising money against Republican establishment favorite agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam. Multiple respected polls showed that DeSantis\u2019 support languished in single digits.<\/p>\n

DeSantis, who had not actually ever endorsed Trump in 2016, and had run for re-election insisting that \u201cjust because we are on the same ticket does not mean I support Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis then cannily emerged as a vocal defender of Trump on the Fox TV and the Conservative talk show circuit in the Russian collusion battle.<\/p>\n

Falling back on his experience as a Military prosecutor, DeSantis caught the President\u2019s eye. In the end, however, it was not Ron DeSantis, but Congressman Matt Gaetz who convinced Trump to issue the fateful tweeted endorsement that would propel DeSantis to the Republican Governor\u2019s nomination, and the Governor\u2019s mansion. Gaetz had a longtime grudge against Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam who he felt had slighted him when Gaetz was a State legislature and he approached the Agriculture Commissioner about a constituent matter.<\/p>\n

Realizing that the DeSantis campaign would need to be stabilized, President Trump deployed Susie Wiles to take control of the floundering DeSantis campaign.<\/p>\n

DeSantis went on to secure a narrow victory in his 2018 election, due entirely to President Donald Trump and Susie Wiles.<\/p>\n

Just 5 years later, DeSantis launched his Presidential campaign to run against former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Election. His campaign was a vicious attack on the man that made him.<\/p>\n

On May 25th, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, while speaking with Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, falsely accused President Donald Trump of \u2018handing over\u2019 the country to Anthony Fauci. DeSantis told Beck, \u201cI think he did great for three years, but when he turned the country over to Fauci in March of 2020 that destroyed millions of people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ron DeSantis was lying. HE pushed the vaccines. Ron DeSantis LOCKED DOWN Florida and even pushed for children to receive COVID-19 booster shots.<\/p>\n

In late May of that same year, during a radio interview with Matt Murphy on WTN-AM, Desantis attacked President Donald Trump\u2019s stellar record as President, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened to Donald Trump; this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016 and I think the direction that he\u2019s going with his campaign is the wrong direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

In October of 2023, DeSantis claimed that Trump, who appointed three Justices to the Supreme Court that struck down the precedent of Roe v Wade, providing more protections to the unborn than had been afforded since pre-1973, was \u2018betraying\u2019 pro-life conservatives.<\/p>\n

DeSantis said, \u201cI think all pro-lifers should know that he\u2019s preparing to sell you out,\u201d to Iowa voters ahead of his defeat at the hands of Trump in the state.<\/p>\n

The attacks didn\u2019t stop at politics either. DeSantis also made derogatory comments about President Trump\u2019s age, saying in October of 2023, \u201cWe don\u2019t need any more presidents that have lost the zip on their fastball.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the same speech in which he made the previous statement, DeSantis also accused Trump of \u2018energizing Democrats,\u2019 saying, \u201cYou could have John Kennedy walk through the door right now and he wouldn\u2019t energize Democrats as much as Donald Trump does.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December of 2023, DeSantis falsely accused President Donald Trump of disrespecting members of the military, saying on X, \u201cTrump denigrates military service by claiming it is \u2018braver\u2019 that he debated Hillary Clinton than what soldiers endure on the battlefield. Debating isn\u2019t \u2018brave\u2019; it\u2019s the bare minimum any candidate should do. Hiding from debates, on the other hand, is an example of cowardice.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis\u2019 accusation that Trump is a \u2018coward\u2019 is laughable, especially considering that he and his wife stole $10 Million from the poorest Floridians in the Hope Florida scandal we delved into earlier.<\/p>\n

Even after he dropped from the race, DeSantis continued to attack Trump. On January 7th, 2024, DeSantis told Face The Nation, \u201cIf the election is about Trump and his legal issues, it will be a \u201creally nasty election\u201d and \u201cdoesn\u2019t put Republicans in a good position to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just days later, DeSantis accused Trump of \u2018slipping mentally\u2019 once again, saying on Morning Joe, \u201cClearly Donald Trump is not the same Trump from 2016. When he gets off the teleprompter, there\u2019s a lot of mistakes, a lot of stream of consciousness stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ron DeSantis owes his entire career to President Donald Trump, and even after being thoroughly dismantled by Trump in the 2024 Republican Presidential primary, DeSantis refused to endorse the President.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not forget that DeSantis literally changed Florida law so that he could siphon the hundreds of millions he raised during his 2022 gubernatorial campaign to his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

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