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pamela

(3,469 posts)
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:35 AM Mar 2023

Ron DeSantis breaks his silence on a possible Trump indictment

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by JudyM (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: NBC

“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair, I just, I can’t speak to that," he said. "That's an example of pursuing a political agenda."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna75747

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Ron DeSantis breaks his silence on a possible Trump indictment (Original Post) pamela Mar 2023 OP
I expect a lot of word salads like that from Republicans Walleye Mar 2023 #1
He's using Herschel Walker's speech writer now. nt hay rick Mar 2023 #23
Something in your background you'd like to get off your chest, Guv. Man Bewbs? Aviation Pro Mar 2023 #2
Little D bends the knee. RandySF Mar 2023 #3
I choked reading that and it was only two sentences. nevergiveup Mar 2023 #4
NBC, I totally don't get the complex legalities, and have no way of figuring it all out, so..... Alexander Of Assyria Mar 2023 #5
Lol talk about trying to have your cake and eat it EarlG Mar 2023 #6
Well Ron would know, he's the king of virtue signaling to his crazy base. emulatorloo Mar 2023 #7
they keep saying soros funds the prosecutor. mopinko Mar 2023 #9
Just Once, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2023 #19
I don't know. I'm still waiting for my George Soros check. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 #21
I'm still waiting for my . . . Richard D Mar 2023 #28
Thanks! LOL indeed. ancianita Mar 2023 #10
Would love to have witnessed that weekend session pamela Mar 2023 #13
Straight from the horse's mouth, Ron is just too pure to know anything.... Thomas Hurt Mar 2023 #8
Idc what the little dictator has to say. nt yaesu Mar 2023 #11
Hm. He does have 'little dictator energy.' n/t Harker Mar 2023 #30
Vague enough people will either think he is slamming Trump or applegrove Mar 2023 #12
Gotta hand it to the fascist Orrex Mar 2023 #14
Do they know Soros passed away? I thought Bill Gates was going to be the next target, but they Escurumbele Mar 2023 #15
Soros isn't dead. pamela Mar 2023 #16
When he does actually die, they're going to claim it's a conspiracy, and, he's still alive. Lol Oneironaut Mar 2023 #29
George Soros is alive. He's 92. ZonkerHarris Mar 2023 #17
Wiki says Soros is alive pfitz59 Mar 2023 #18
Keep attacking each other. LiberalFighter Mar 2023 #20
Old Ron doesn't want to upset the base. republianmushroom Mar 2023 #22
oh yeah, barbtries Mar 2023 #24
I think Trump was a Democrat when he was humping Stormy. twodogsbarking Mar 2023 #25
Neither DeSatan nor Fly in the Hair Pence have any backbone to speak truth to power. n/t iluvtennis Mar 2023 #26
Total BS. Kath2 Mar 2023 #27
"Misdemeanor" is the Republican Word Of The Day. Midnight Writer Mar 2023 #31
Remember Al Capone DENVERPOPS Mar 2023 #32
Locking after review by the forum hosts JudyM Mar 2023 #33

Walleye

(31,045 posts)
1. I expect a lot of word salads like that from Republicans
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:37 AM
Mar 2023

hay rick

(7,638 posts)
23. He's using Herschel Walker's speech writer now. nt
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:39 PM
Mar 2023

Aviation Pro

(12,186 posts)
2. Something in your background you'd like to get off your chest, Guv. Man Bewbs?
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:38 AM
Mar 2023

Hmmmmmm?

RandySF

(59,205 posts)
3. Little D bends the knee.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:43 AM
Mar 2023

nevergiveup

(4,764 posts)
4. I choked reading that and it was only two sentences.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:43 AM
Mar 2023
 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
5. NBC, I totally don't get the complex legalities, and have no way of figuring it all out, so.....
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:44 AM
Mar 2023

If you would let me get away with some garble garble, that would be keen?!

NBC: Moving on, Sir!, to….

……..

It’s a well worn corporate media script when they get a fascist on for some…questioning??..I guess thats what they still call this?!

EarlG

(21,966 posts)
6. Lol talk about trying to have your cake and eat it
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:46 AM
Mar 2023

So DeSantis goes all in on the antisemitic "Soros" bullshit:

"I have no interest in getting involved in some manufactured circus by some Soros-DA. He’s trying to do a political spectacle. He’s trying to virtue signal for his base. I’ve got real issues I got to deal with here in the state of Florida. I don't know what's going to happen but I do know this: the Manhattan district attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor."

While simultaneously rehashing the actual facts of the case:

"I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair, I just, I can’t speak to that."

So the potential prosecution of Trump for PAYING HUSH MONEY TO A PORN STAR TO SECURE SILENCE OVER SOME TYPE OF ALLEGED AFFAIR, is also an UNFAIR POLITICAL WITCH HUNT RUN BY A SOROS-FUNDED VIRTUE-SIGNALING PARTISAN LOON.

And to think, it took them all weekend to come up with that...

emulatorloo

(44,180 posts)
7. Well Ron would know, he's the king of virtue signaling to his crazy base.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:53 AM
Mar 2023

Which includes the Soros Sorus Soros antisemitic bullshit.

mopinko

(70,205 posts)
9. they keep saying soros funds the prosecutor.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:56 AM
Mar 2023

every accusation is a confession.

The Magistrate

(95,255 posts)
19. Just Once, Ma'am
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:27 PM
Mar 2023

I would like to see an interviewer follow up a 'Soros puppet' answer with questions on these lines:

What evidence do you have?

Have you communications between Mr. Soros and the DA directing the latter to perform some action?

Have you evidence of funds directed to the DA's personal use by Mr. Soros?

In fact, are you doing any thing but pronouncing 'demon words' to summon the specter of the 'hidden hand of the Jew' in order to rile up your basest voters?

Put bluntly, Sir, unless you answer the first three in the affirmative and produce the evidence, shouldn't people just assume you are nothing but a Jew-hating bigot?

America wants answers, Sir!

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,185 posts)
21. I don't know. I'm still waiting for my George Soros check.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:34 PM
Mar 2023

Anyone gotten theirs?

Richard D

(8,762 posts)
28. I'm still waiting for my . . .
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 01:49 PM
Mar 2023

Jewish Space Laser!

ancianita

(36,132 posts)
10. Thanks! LOL indeed.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:02 PM
Mar 2023

pamela

(3,469 posts)
13. Would love to have witnessed that weekend session
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:14 PM
Mar 2023

“Should I defend Porn Star fucking or just say ‘Soros, Soros, Soros…?’”

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
8. Straight from the horse's mouth, Ron is just too pure to know anything....
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:54 AM
Mar 2023

about political agendas or porn stars or pay offs. LOL>

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
11. Idc what the little dictator has to say. nt
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:06 PM
Mar 2023

Harker

(14,034 posts)
30. Hm. He does have 'little dictator energy.' n/t
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 02:05 PM
Mar 2023

applegrove

(118,772 posts)
12. Vague enough people will either think he is slamming Trump or
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:09 PM
Mar 2023

fall for the Soros as a scapegoat. If you are already afraid of Soros you'll take that out of it. If Soros does not ring a 5 alarm fire in your head then Trump had an affair is what you remember and DeSantis is above it. If you love Trump the affair was only alleged. Trump is surrounded the allegations by soros and slurs on the prosecutor. He couched in it, on both sides. Dyslexics see things off to the side and they make up 20% of the population. Other people see what is dead center. Maybe dyslexic Trump has dyslexic followers and DeSantis is using what and how people notice things to his (DeSantis') advantage to appeal to all sides with this statement.

Orrex

(63,223 posts)
14. Gotta hand it to the fascist
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:16 PM
Mar 2023

I n two brief sentences he attacked both Trump for his crimes and those who would hold Trump accountable for his crimes.

It sounds gibberishish on the first pass, but let's not make the mistake of pretending that he didn't know exactly what he was saying, and why.

Escurumbele

(3,402 posts)
15. Do they know Soros passed away? I thought Bill Gates was going to be the next target, but they
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:22 PM
Mar 2023

are still after Soros...

pamela

(3,469 posts)
16. Soros isn't dead.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:26 PM
Mar 2023

Not that that would stop them from propping him up like some “weekend at Bernie’s” boogeyman.

Oneironaut

(5,524 posts)
29. When he does actually die, they're going to claim it's a conspiracy, and, he's still alive. Lol
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 01:57 PM
Mar 2023

ZonkerHarris

(24,253 posts)
17. George Soros is alive. He's 92.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:27 PM
Mar 2023

pfitz59

(10,390 posts)
18. Wiki says Soros is alive
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:27 PM
Mar 2023

not that it matters to Trump humpers.

LiberalFighter

(51,079 posts)
20. Keep attacking each other.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:31 PM
Mar 2023

republianmushroom

(13,675 posts)
22. Old Ron doesn't want to upset the base.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 12:37 PM
Mar 2023

barbtries

(28,811 posts)
24. oh yeah,
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 01:01 PM
Mar 2023

trump was definitely pursuing a political agenda when he broke the law to keep people ignorant of what a total piece of shit he is.

twodogsbarking

(9,805 posts)
25. I think Trump was a Democrat when he was humping Stormy.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 01:13 PM
Mar 2023

iluvtennis

(19,871 posts)
26. Neither DeSatan nor Fly in the Hair Pence have any backbone to speak truth to power. n/t
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 01:17 PM
Mar 2023

Kath2

(3,089 posts)
27. Total BS.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 01:26 PM
Mar 2023

Exactly what we would expect.

Midnight Writer

(21,794 posts)
31. "Misdemeanor" is the Republican Word Of The Day.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 02:13 PM
Mar 2023

Watched a bit of news this morning on multiple channels and I heard the word "misdemeanor" used about a dozen times.

DENVERPOPS

(8,844 posts)
32. Remember Al Capone
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 02:14 PM
Mar 2023

and all the horrific things he did???????? They finally nailed him on a trivial charge of tax evasion............
It served as reason enough to remove him from society. They kept him in a jail cell until the very end of his putrid life. His mind had been eaten by tertiary syphillis and he couldn't do anything but drool, so they sent him home..........

I realize that everyone would like to see Trump hanged in public for what he has done, but if they get him on something like bribing a porn star, and it imprisons his sorry fat ass, that is all that matters............

JudyM

(29,271 posts)
33. Locking after review by the forum hosts
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 03:47 PM
Mar 2023

Republican commentary is very rarely important news. Good to repost in General Discussion if you’d like, though.

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