Trump's Startling DeSantis Claim Made It Into a Florida Court

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11-11-2022

Trump's startling DeSantis claim made it into a Florida courtroom in only 24 hours.

Donald Trump's Thursday meltdown on his Truth Social website had already made its way into court proceedings in Florida just one day later.

"Former President Donald Trump's post-election screed labeling Florida's governor 'Ron DeSanctimonious' didn't go unnoticed by Andrew Gillum or his Miami lawyers," the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
"In addition to saying he helped 'fix' DeSantis' campaign after it had 'completely fallen apart,'
Trump said he also got the feds to intervene 'when votes were being stolen' in Broward County."

"David Markus and Katherine Miller, who are representing Gillum on federal public corruption charges involving donations to his gubernatorial campaign, didn't fire back at insults Trump hurled
at Tallahassee's former mayor," the newspaper reported.

"Instead, they cited Trump's statement in a motion filed Friday in federal court saying it further supported their request for a hearing on whether the federal government selectively prosecuted Gillum because of his race."

In a series of posts imitating a Twitter thread, a feature Trump's Truth Social does not support, Trump had harsh words for DeSantis.

Trump complained that Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Post had gone "all in" for DeSantis, who Trump described as "an average Republican governor with great public relations."

"I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott,
I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win," Trump claimed.

Gillum's lawyers seized on Trump's social media remarks in their filing.

"Former President Trump's posts raise serious questions about how exactly Trump 'fixed' DeSantis' campaign and what Trump directed the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office to do,
and whether there is any connection to the FBI's investigation
and later prosecution of Gillum," Gillum's lawyers argued.

The attorneys said Trump's Truth Social post demonstrates a "prima facie case of selective prosecution (at a minimum for political purposes), because Donald Trump confirms that he took action through the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office."

According to The Washington Post, Trump's claims of sending federal agents to intervene in the election are "also almost certainly false."

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11-12-2022

'That never happened': Anonymous Trump officials
say his claim about saving DeSantis in 2018 is BS.

The National Review is out with new reporting challenging a Truth Social post by Donald Trump in which he claims to have saved the campaigns of
Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott in Florida’s
2018 election.

Citing anonymous sources – “top Department of Justice officials and a former prosecutor” under Trump –
the Review called out as “fake news” the post by Trump in which he said made unfounded allegations that the election was being stolen in Broward County.

Here’s part of the report:

Trump claimed that “when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and
Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott__
I sent the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running
out of votes necessary to win.
I stopped his Election from being stolen …”

“But that is not true.
According to the officials who spoke with National Review. The prosecutor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that while it was true that there were voting irregularities and a slow ballot-counting process in Broward County, what Trump claimed
“did not happen. That never happened.”

And there was this claim from a DOJ official, also cited anonymously:

“The Department of Justice, the FBI, wouldn’t do it because the president called up,” the official said.
“If there were people down there, law enforcement people, or the U.S. Attorney or something said,
‘Hey, there seems to be a problem here, they might
look into it.
But the idea that the president calls them in is just bullsh#t..”

The National Review cited tweets from two other sources:

“Sarah Isgur, a former DOJ spokeswoman who served during the Trump administration, tweeted Friday that it, “Never happened.”

Jared Moskowitz, who was a Democratic state representative in Broward County in 2018, also said Trump’s claim was bogus.
“It’s an absolute lie,” he tweeted Friday.
“I was there. All sides had attorneys there.
Multiple court appearances. The recount completed. Dems lost.”

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Trump lost. Biden won.

Get over it.

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