Whereas he would by no means come out and admit it, Donald Trump is clearly pants-pissingly terrified on the prospect of getting to face off with Ron DeSantis for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024. If you’d like some proof that the mere thought of competing towards the Florida governor sends the ex-president frantically looking for a commode, think about all the issues Trump has performed in regard to the man over the past a number of months, which have included however not been restricted to:
- Insisting DeSantis would have by no means been elected governor with out his endorsement
- Declaring that he “despatched within the FBI” to make sure DeSantis beat out his Democratic opponent
- Dubbing DeSantis “Ron DeSanctimonious”
- Claiming the governor had rewritten historical past relating to Florida’s early dealing with of COVID-19
- Threatening to disclose “issues about [DeSantis] that gained’t be very flattering”
- Suggesting he’d do to DeSantis what he did to Ted Cruz—which means he may insult the man’s spouse and suggest his father killed Kennedy
And whereas we’d by no means counsel that Trump is above insinuating that one in every of his opponents is a pedophile—the ex-president is, in spite of everything, not above something—one might need anticipated him to at the least wait till DeSantis had formally introduced his candidacy to take action. However apparently, one could be incorrect.
On Tuesday, the forty fifth president shared two posts on Reality Social that included the identical photograph of DeSantis apparently partying with highschool women whereas he was working at a personal college, with the picture claiming to point out DeSantis “grooming highschool women with alcohol as a instructor.” Including his personal commentary, Trump wrote: “No means?” and “That’s not Ron, is it? He would by no means do such a factor!”
Clearly, we are able to’t inform a lot of something from this photograph. However right here’s how The New York Occasions described DeSantis’s time on the Darlington College, a personal Ok–12 establishment in Georgia the place he taught for a yr, in between graduating from Yale and attending Harvard Regulation College:
