Showtime Drops Ron DeSantis Documentary Shortly Before Air Date Without Explanation
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Showtime Drops Ron DeSantis Documentary Shortly Before Air Date Without Explanation
The DeSantis episode on "Vice" was titled “The Gitmo Candidate & Chipping Away.” It suddenly disappeared from Showtime's schedule.
Ron Dicker Jun 5, 2023, 06:41 AM EDT
Updated 3 hours ago
Showtime dropped a documentary about 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis just days before it was supposed to air ― and gave no reason why, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday.
The cable channel mysteriously pulled a May 28 episode of its “Vice” newsmagazine series that was to focus on the Florida governor’s stint as a U.S. Navy lawyer in Guantanamo Bay. The news report was titled “The Gitmo Candidate & Chipping Away,” described in a now-scrubbed Showtime promo as an investigation into “allegations from former Guantanamo Bay detainees that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis witnessed acts condemned by the United Nations as torture during his past service at the controversial detention camp as a Navy JAG officer,” the outlet noted.
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DeSantis has fended off claims that he witnessed the force-feeding of hunger-striking inmates at Guantanamo Bay. DeSantis, now a distant second behind former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, was assigned to the U.S. military prison in March 2006 to deal with the hunger strikes, according to Snopes. ........................
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Whatever DeSantis's role was as a jag officer,
he will have to give a better answer rather than chewing some reporters head off.
@RonFilipkowski
NOT. READY. FOR. PRIME. TIME.
Desantis melts down today outside the protective bubble of his carefully controlled, scripted FL events.
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@RonFilipkowski
Desantis recently denied to Piers Morgan that he had anything to do with force feeding detainees at Guantanamo. Democracy Now found an old interview of him where he admitted recommending it for hunger strikers, then interviewed detainee who said Desantis was watching & laughing.
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"This guy [Ron DeSantis] has the potential to run for president of the United States," said Yvonne Bradley, who represented Guantánamo detainees as a military lawyer at that time. "I think it’s important for the story to get out."
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I’m not surprised. We saw him gleefully kidnap asylum seekers & trick them & send them to Mass. We saw him threaten to sue Special Olympics. We watched him bully our kids. Heard him lie abt CV19, vaccines, & attack Fauci.
Sunday’s @TB_Times
exposes his & Ladapo’s CV19 lies.
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Whatever.
