{"id":1707255,"date":"2022-10-22T20:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T00:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707255"},"modified":"2022-10-22T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T00:33:05","slug":"obama-takes-passive-shot-at-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-takes-passive-shot-at-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Takes Passive Shot At DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-takes-passive-shot-at-desantis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707255&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/barack-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> took a passive shot at Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R) in an endorsement video Friday of DeSantis\u2019 gubernatorial opponent Charlie Crist (D).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey Florida, we have a lot of work to do. And it starts with making Charlie Crist your next governor,\u201d Obama said, adding, \u201cSo if you\u2019re ready for a governor who cares about people instead of bullying them, who will fight for voting rights, and a woman\u2019s right to choose, who understands the challenges you\u2019re facing every day, and who will fight for you \u2014 vote for Charlie Crist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s remarks are laughable considering Crist has referred to DeSantis using derogatory language, including calling the governor \u201cDeSatan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama doesn\u2019t mention Ron DeSantis by name here, but he does say Charlie Crist \u201ccares about people, instead of bullying them.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fsYMIgbbT5\">pic.twitter.com\/fsYMIgbbT5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ccadelago\/status\/1583489053059870721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WESH 2 News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/desantis-crist-governor-race\/41739843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> that DeSantis picked up numerous endorsements on the same day, including the\u00a0National Federation of Independent Business Florida PAC, the\u00a0Florida Trucking Association PAC, the\u00a0Associated Builders and Contractors of Florida, and the\u00a0Florida Home Builders Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to have these endorsements here today,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd I think particularly on this day when we have the state-by-state unemployment numbers put out. Florida\u2019s unemployment rate is now 2.5%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said that this was the first time in 88 years that the Florida Trucking Association PAC has ever made a political endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Obama previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/obama-campaigns-for-andrew-gillum-and-bill-nelson-in-florida-11-02-2018-live-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaigned<\/a> for DeSantis\u2019 last opponent, disgraced Democrat Andrew Gillum, in the 2018 election.<\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of years later in 2020, Gillum, who is married and has children, was found in a hotel room with a male escort and suspected baggies of crystal meth.<\/p>\n<p>Gillum was charged in federal court this summer with 21 felonies related to his failed 2018 Florida gubernatorial campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA federal grand jury has returned a twenty-one count indictment against Andrew Demetric Gillum, 42, and Sharon Janet Lettman-Hicks, 53, both of Tallahassee, Florida,\u201d the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indictment alleges that between 2016 and 2019, defendants Gillum and Lettman-Hicks conspired to commit wire fraud, by unlawfully soliciting and obtaining funds from various entities and individuals through false and fraudulent promises and representations that the funds would be used for a legitimate purpose,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe Indictment further alleges the defendants used third parties to divert a portion of those funds to a company owned by Lettman-Hicks, who then fraudulently provided the funds, disguised as payroll payments, to Gillum for his personal use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth defendants are charged with 19 counts of wire fraud,\u201d the statement added. \u201cGillum is also charged with making false statements to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, Gillum faces up to five years in prison for making false statements, 20 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and 20 years in prison per charge for wire fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama took a passive shot at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in an endorsement video Friday of DeSantis\u2019 gubernatorial opponent Charlie Crist (D). \u201cHey Florida, we have a lot of work to do. And it starts with making Charlie Crist your next governor,\u201d Obama said, adding, \u201cSo if you\u2019re ready for a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1641446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}