Earlier this week, we discovered that in his new memoir, The Braveness to Be Free, Ron DeSantis has plenty of very good issues to say about Donald Trump. Sadly for the governor of Florida, his would-be 2024 opponent has not returned the favor, and by “not returned the favor,” we imply Trump has determined to observe up his latest suggestion {that a} 20-something DeSantis groomed highschool ladies…by claiming the man will ship seniors to an early grave if elected president.
On Tuesday, Trump logged on to Reality Social and informed his followers: “Nice Ballot numbers are springing forth on your favourite President, me, in opposition to Ron DeSanctus (& Biden). I assume individuals are discovering out that he needed to CUT SOCIAL SECURITY & RAISE THE MINIMUM AGE TO AT LEAST 70, no less than 4 instances. LIKEWISE WITH MEDICARE, WANTED BIG CUTS. HE IS A WHEELCHAIR OVER THE CLIFF KIND OF GUY, JUST LIKE HIS HERO, failed politician Paul Ryan, the FoxNews rankings destroyer who led Mitt Romney’s Presidential Marketing campaign down the tubes. GLOBALIST’S ALL! WE WANT AMERICA FIRST!!!”
Trump isn’t proper about lots of issues, however he’s appropriate in his declare that former Home Speaker Paul Ryan famously dreamed of gutting Medicare and Social Safety, in addition to Medicaid and different key features of the social security internet—which he as soon as described as a “hammock that lulls able-bodied individuals into complacency and dependence.” Sadly for Ryan, not sufficient individuals in Congress needed to commit political suicide, and he retired earlier than he might get the job performed.
As for DeSantis, the Florida governor has been much less direct than Ryan about his lust for casting off packages tens of millions of individuals depend on (and in lots of circumstances, pay into). However it’s not onerous to see the place his head’s at, since he:
- Per Semafor, “Voted for a collection of price range resolutions crafted by the conservative Republican Examine Committee that might have voucherized Medicare for brand spanking new beneficiaries, slowed Social Safety cost-of-living will increase, and raised the retirement age for each packages” throughout his time in Congress;
- Acquired, in accordance with The Washington Submit, “a 0 p.c score from the Alliance for Retired Individuals, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO,” and stated throughout debt-limit negotiations in 2013 that Social Safety and Medicare needs to be a part of the negotiations;
- Commented the identical 12 months: “I feel we have to restructure a few of these entitlements”;
- Mentioned in 2012: “I assist what Ryan is making an attempt to do when it comes to reforming entitlements.”
And what of Trump’s place on all this? Properly, he’s presently portray himself as a defender of Medicare and Social Safety and, in accordance with Ryan, refused to pursue cuts to “entitlements” whereas in workplace as a result of they weren’t common. Nevertheless, the ex-president apparently forgets that in 2019, he reportedly mentioned gutting Medicare as a possible “second-term venture.” Or that, in 2020, he was requested if such cuts would ever be on his “plate,” and responded, out loud: “Sooner or later they are going to be.”
