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Former President Donald Trump lashed out at New York Post and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis after the newspaper magnate’s real estate undercut the twice-impeached ex-president’s impact in his midterms 2022 and promoted the governor of Florida as a possible 2024. Republican standard bearer. In a statement released by political action committee Save America, Trump said the two documents belonging to Murdoch were “all in” on Mr. DeSantis, whom he once again derided as “Ron DeSantimonius” and accused of “average Republican governor” who benefited from “excellent public relations.” The former president also hit out at Mr. DeSantis for following guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and the White House at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Mr. Trump himself presented temporary shutdown plans with the slogan “15 days to Slow the Spread”. Continuing, Mr. Trump claimed that the influx of new Florida residents would arrive there “regardless of who was the Governor” and said that his own decision to move there had nothing to do with Mr. DeSantis’ administration. He also claimed credit for Mr. DeSantis’ 2018 election victory over former Tallahassee, Florida, mayor Andrew Gilluim and said he “fixed” Mr. DeSantis’ 2018 campaign and used the FBI and Justice Department to to turn this election to the Republican. “I was for Ron and he beat Gillum, but after the race, when the votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward County, and Ron was down ten thousand votes a day, along with Senator Rick Scott. , I sent in the FBI and US Attorneys and the ballot stealing ended immediately, just before they ran out of votes needed to win,” he said “I stopped his election stealing and now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games.” Mr Trump added that Mr DeSandis’ claim that he is “only focused on the governor’s race” and that he is not considering a 2024 run “is not really the right answer”. The former president’s attack on the Florida governor and Murdoch-owned newspapers comes just one day after the Post ran a cover hailing Mr. DeSantis as the future of the GOP and the same day the Post ran another cover depicting Trump as the children’s character Humpty Dumpty and said he would not build any wall along the US-Mexico border. Mr Trump, who is widely expected to announce a third bid for the presidency on Tuesday, November 15, compared the tabloid attacks to the cold reception he received from Fox News when he ran for president in 2016. “They’ll keep coming after us, MAGA, but we’ll win in the end. Put America First and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” he said.
