WATCH: DeSantis Tells D.C. GOP: ‘We Don’t Have Time For Boneless Wonders’
Speaking in Washington D.C at a dinner where prominent Republicans attended, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) ripped the mainstream media, pointing out that they never apologized for their part trumpeting the Russian collusion conspiracy that targeted former President Trump, that the media will “gaslight” and smear people. “When a society like ours is veering away from the truth like we are, those that stand up and tell truth will face fire,” said DeSantis. “That type of society goes after the truth-tellers more than anything because they understand those who tell the truth represent a threat to their power. In times like these, there is no substitute for courage.”
DeSantis asserted, “You’ve got a press that for over two years created a fake conspiracy theory involving Russian collusion. I was in Congress when that started. I was only one of a handful of people who knew that was BS from the beginning. But they did it. And they milked it. And was all because they disagreed with the outcome of the 2016 election.”
He commented on the press targeting those who complained about the 2020 election: “They talked about complaining about 2020? They never accepted Donald Trump. They created and manufactured a conspiracy theory to try to drive him out office and to kneecap him and his presidency and we know it was false. We know that there was no truth to it.”
DeSantis appeared to be referencing the Russian collusion theory, for which Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no sufficient evidence after over two years of exhaustive investigation. The special counsel investigation “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple efforts from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.”
“Have any of them actually apologized?” DeSantis asked rhetorically. “Heck, have any of them even said, ‘We were wrong about that’? No, they give each other awards. They actually award Pulitzer Prizes for reporting false stories.”
“So that’s where we are,” he continued. “They gaslight. They display partisanship. They smear people. It’s all to create a blizzard of lies, trying to blind the American people from the actual truth. And so we live in Orwellian times in which the powers that be want to tell us that up is down and left is right. And when a society like ours is veering away from the truth like we are, those that stand
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