Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went after former President Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci over their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. sharply criticized former President Donald Trump Thursday over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, arguing he”destroyed millions of people’s lives” by turning the country over to Dr.
Anthony Fauci.
DeSantis made the comments during an appearance on a podcast just one day following his 2024 campaign launch , and just hours after he began pushing back on Trump’s attacks against his candidacy and tenure as Florida’s governor.
“I think [Trump] did great for three years, but when he turned the country over to Fauci in March of 2020 that destroyed millions of people’s lives,” DeSantis said.”And in Florida, we were one of the few that stood up, cut against the grain, took incoming fire from media, bureaucracy, the left, even a lot of Republicans, had school open, preserved businesses.” headtopics.com
DESANTIS ARGUES ATTACKS BY TRUMP SHOW ‘HE UNDERSTANDS I’M THE CANDIDATE WHO CAN BEAT HIM’ “And so Florida, since COVID, has outperformed virtually any state in the country when you look at all these significant metrics. I mean, we’re booming, we’ve got people moving in here, wealth is coming in here,” he added.
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Friends to foes: How Trump and DeSantis’ relationship has deteriorated over the yearsBefore Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were leading rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, they were allies. Trump gave DeSantis’ gubernatorial bid an early boost by tweeting his support even before DeSantis formally entered the race. In his 2018 victory speech, DeSantis made sure to thank the president, saying, “I think we’ll have a great partnership.”
