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DeSantis Misses his Moment

DeSantis could have presented himself as the opposition to Soros-funded District Attorneys and their neo-Bolshevik tactics.

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Mar 20, 2023
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According to the Federal Election Committee, Hillary Clinton lied about the use of campaign funds by misreporting her funding of the infamous Steele dossier as legal expenses:

“By intentionally obscuring their payments through Perkins Coie and failing to publicly disclose the true purpose of those payments,” the campaign and DNC “were able to avoid publicly reporting on their statutorily required FEC disclosure forms the fact that they were paying Fusion GPS to perform opposition research on Trump with the intent of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the initial complaint had read.

Clinton is not under criminal investigation for these lies. Trump may be turning himself in soon for the same offense.

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No Bailouts Poso 🚫💰 @JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Last year Hillary Clinton quietly settled a campaign finance violation over reporting the *Steele Dossier* funding as legal services She paid a fine and was never arrested
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9:56 PM ∙ Mar 18, 2023
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What should DeSantis have done?

Trump has smeared DeSantis. MAGA influencers repeatedly lie about DeSantis. There’s even a meme circulating, which suggests that a college graduate cannot stop by a party of college-aged women. Nasty stuff.

Which is why DeSantis blew his moment. He issued a statement that led strong, and then ended in possible political suicide.

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Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin
@Cernovich I saw the full comment. Pasting: “I've seen rumors swirl. I have not seen any facts yet. And so I don't know what's gonna happen. But I do know that this Manhattan District Attorney is a Soros funded prosecutor. And so he, like other Soros funded prosecutors, they weaponize… https://t.co/HRAaTX8Zx3
4:11 PM ∙ Mar 20, 2023
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We are not involved in this, won't be involved in this. I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA. He's trying to do a political spectacle. He's trying to virtue signal for his base. Uh, I've got real issues I gotta deal with here in the state of Florida. We're obviously shutting down, uh, C B D C, which is important. We've got so many things pending in front of the legislature. I've gotta spend my time on issues that actually matter to people. I can't spend my time, worrying about things of that nature. So, we're not gonna be involved in it in any way. I'm fighting for Floridians and I'm fighting back against Biden. That's what I do every single day.”

If you were sleeping during the 2015 GOP primary, you’d say this was a mighty fine statement of policy. It’s taking the high road.

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DeSantis is being told to "moderate his tone," to appeal to supposed "moderate voters." When in reality, Trump should have won 2020 EASILY. Multiple unforced errors cost him the election. 2015 showed what matters. Are DeSantis people not reading @ScottAdamsSays?
4:53 PM ∙ Mar 20, 2023
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Except it’s not. It looks weak.

The Bolsheviks have returned.

Stalin is smiling from Hell:

Joseph Stalin’s show trials were common during his political repressions, such as the Moscow Trials of the Great Purge period (1937–38). The Soviet authorities staged the actual trials meticulously.

The trials were held against Stalin’s political enemies, such as the Trotskyists and those involved with the Right Opposition of the Communist Party. The trials were shams that led to the execution of most defendants. Every surviving member of the Lenin-era part was tried, and almost every important Bolshevik from the Revolution was executed. Over 1,100 delegates to the party congress in 1934 were arrested. The killings were part of Stalin’s Great Purge, in which opportunists and Bolshevik cadres from the time of the Russian Revolution who could rally opposition to Joseph Stalin were killed. He did so at a time of growing discontent in the 1930s for his mismanagement of the Soviet economy, leading to mass famines during periods of rapid and poorly executed industrialization and farm collectivization.

Over 1,000 Americans are being prosecuted for engaging in peaceful protest by walking into the Capitol. Over 1,000 more face imminent arrest.

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On May 29, 2020, BLM rioters forced President Trump into the White House bunker and burned a historic church. During the first week of the 2020 riots, 150 local & federal LEOs in DC were injured. The summer 2020 riots led to $2 billion in property damage & killed at least 19
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7:21 PM ∙ Mar 20, 2023
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Some violent thugs are facing prosecution, as they should be. But the vast majority of people having their lives upended did what AOC ordered her mentions to do. Occupy the Capitol.

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We welcome the presence of these activists, and we strongly urge the Capitol Police to allow them to continue to organize and participate in our democracy.
5:02 PM ∙ Nov 13, 2018
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The Department of Justice plans to indict another 1,000+ innocent people, using the tactics of Josef Stalin and the show trial era.

DC judges are fully on board, and they’ve prohibited defendants from asking why it is that Kanvaugh can be stalked at his home, rioters can try breaking into the Supreme Court, courthouses can be burned down, and the White House can be attacked … but random people who walked into the Capitol on January 6th are special cases?

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A. NYU law professor who was RT’ed by a Georgetown law professor is clear about the aims of the mass mob actions being undertaken by the far left, against conservative Supreme Court justices.
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2:19 AM ∙ May 9, 2022
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Did someone say an official proceeding was disrupted on January 6th? Yes, that happened during the Kavanaugh hearings as well. And unlike J6, the vote was delayed.

0 criminal charges were brought for this.

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Activists (not called an insurrection) stormed Congress to force a delay on Kavanaugh vote. Tried pounding down SCOTUS door (which is too massive to break into). Literally took over Speaker Pelosi’s office. Led by AOC! But now it’s a coup? 🤔
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7:10 PM ∙ Jan 10, 2021
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Election lies are bad. Great. Why didn’t DOJ take action against the perjurers who lied during the Kavanaugh hearings?

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Cernovich @Cernovich
Grassley sends criminal referral for attorney Michael Avenatti and Kavanaugh accuser
foxnews.comGrassley sends criminal referral for attorney Michael Avenatti and Kavanaugh accuserSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he has referred attorney Michael Avenatti and client Julie Swetnick -- who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct -- for criminal investigation regarding a potential “conspiracy” to provide false statements…
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The lie that January 6 was an unprecedented attack on the peaceful transfer of power ignores the 2017 riots. This organized attack on DC was called DisruptJ20.

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@nadinecarroll @Mr_Coates11 @CallTime4 Or in the case of Trump's inauguration, it was literally called "DisruptJ20", the specific name of one of the crimes J6 defendants are being charge with. Imagine if the J6 people had named the protest "Disrupt" anything. Open and shut cases, all.
buzzfeednews.comLawyers Are Descending On Washington To Help ProtestersHundreds of legal volunteers are fanning out across the city to document potential abuses of protesters and are ready to go to court if needed.
5:43 PM ∙ Mar 16, 2023

The name of the riot was the admission of a crime.

How were those rioters treated by the Depart of Justice and FBI?

Charges Dropped Against Remaining J20 Inauguration Day Protesters

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Zoe Tillman @ZoeTillman
BREAKING: The US attorney's office in DC is dismissing all remaining Inauguration Day mass arrest cases. The government had been unable to secure any convictions at trial so far; there were 38 cases left. Filing: scribd.com/document/38335… Statement from the US attorney's office:
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7:24 PM ∙ Jul 6, 2018
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Even those few rioters who were charged during the Trump administration are receiving sweetheart deals.

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Cernovich @Cernovich
One year for a fire bomb attack during the summer riots. Attorney who helped firebomb NYPD car during BLM protests sentenced to prison
news.yahoo.comAttorney who helped firebomb NYPD car during BLM protests sentenced to prisonOn Thursday a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education should have rendered him a peacekeeper, not an instigator.
5:49 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2023
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A summer rioter who murdered a man via arson was given only ten years in prison. The prosecutor in this case wrote what can only be understood as a defense memo from a criminal defense lawyer.

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This reads like a defense memo. Federal prosecutors blame “bad luck” and “fate” for why someone died as a result of arson committed at a BLM riot, and asks for a LOWER sentence than called for under the sentencing Guidelines.
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US DOJ asks for 12-year sentence for arson and murder, half of the Sentencing Guidelines, because the murderer, a career criminal, killed the man in the name of social justice & BLM. Every Jan 6 defendant has a case now. Our #underincarceration problem. https://t.co/omYLUctOcG https://t.co/mNAo8xbYoP
4:56 PM ∙ Jan 26, 2022
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(((tedfrank))) @tedfrank
US DOJ asks for 12-year sentence for arson and murder, half of the Sentencing Guidelines, because the murderer, a career criminal, killed the man in the name of social justice & BLM. Every Jan 6 defendant has a case now. Our #underincarceration problem. alphanews.org/wp-content/upl…
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2:26 PM ∙ Jan 26, 2022
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DeSantis could have presented himself as the opposition to Soros-funded District Attorneys and their neo-Bolshevik tactics.

This is the statement DeSantis should have made.

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Easiest win that DeSantis could take right now is do this:
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9:01 PM ∙ Mar 18, 2023
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Or he could have cut off the final paragraph of the statement he issued today.

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@MarinaMedvin The last paragraph is what killed him. All he had to say was everything above it. He can’t make mistakes like this.
4:14 PM ∙ Mar 20, 2023
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Trump is going to surrender, so DeSantis wins on the optics. It costs him nothing.

It would have positioned DeSantis as above Trump, in every way. “Hey, look, I’m here to ensure a Floridian’s due process rights are protected.”

The media would have freaked out, calling DeSantis lawless.

This is the war you want if you’re Ron DeSantis, the only Governor who fired a Soros District Attorney.

It’s the war you win.

That would put DeSantis as the one and only GOP primary contenter willing to confront the Stalinists.

Vivek Ramaswamy, who has a much lower media profile for now, is leading that conversation.

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Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy
I held a press conference following my South Carolina speech. I called on GOP donor class favorites @RonDeSantisFL and @NikkiHaley to join me by 9 AM tomorrow in calling on the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg to abandon the political persecution through prosecution of the 45th… https://t.co/UhXfV2ZroP
11:22 PM ∙ Mar 18, 2023
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Candace Owens @RealCandaceO
Vivek has been the strongest candidate in the presidential field in terms of how he has responded to Trump’s pending arrest. Haley and Desantis are worried about their deep-pocket donors first and foremost—not the implications for America.
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Vivek is right https://t.co/jYFTB198sA
11:22 PM ∙ Mar 19, 2023
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DeSantis’ statement today was brutal self-inflicted wound, and one not easily recovered from.

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MightyMouse
Mar 20

You are correct that DeSantis missed his moment. He is my Governor and I voted for him twice. I’ve been very disappointed in him lately. He was all tough as nails until he got re-elected. Now he seems to have lost his backbone. He has missed several opportunities. Recently legislation was passed for insurance in Florida that benefitted the insurance companies. Our rates went up over 125%. He’s done nothing to help the J6 people from FL. He’s not the leader I thought he was. Plus we voted for him to be Governor for another 4 years not for president. I feel betrayed on that issue along with a lot of other Floridians.

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John Smith
Mar 24

Domestic Policy is downstream from Foreign Policy...So I’m a Foreign Policy voter.

DeSantis is done, even playing footsy with NeoCons is an immediate “I will do nothing to help you get elected” default mode from me.

Same as when Trump hired Bolton 🙄.

I used to challenge people to “Name 3 policy differences between JEB! And Hillary?”

Now, I will ask people to “name 3 foreign policy differences between everyone not named Trump in the GOP primary”.

Cue the Jeopardy music.

DeSantis reeks of “Please Clap” vibes...

And if the Bushes don’t HATE your foreign policy...you’re wrong.

**All on the 20th anniversary of invasion of Iraq. DeSantis may have worse advisors than Trump (is that possible?🥴)

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