{"id":1903785,"date":"2023-03-23T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-pivots-to-brand-putin-war-criminal\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T17:15:54","slug":"desantis-pivots-to-brand-putin-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-pivots-to-brand-putin-war-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Pivots To Brand Putin &#8216;War Criminal&#8217;"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fdesantis-pivots-to-brand-putin-war-criminal%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=1903785&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-->\n<div>\n<p><h2>Comment follows the most political candidate&#8217;s description of the war in Ukraine as a&#8221; regional debate.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Russian President Vladimir Putin was referred to as a&#8221; war criminal&#8221; by Florida governor Ron DeSantis( R.) in an interview on Thursday, setting the expected presidential candidate apart from his statement from last week that downplayed the Ukraine war as&#8221; territorial dispute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8221; Clearly, Russia invaded; that was incorrect. DeSantis told Piers Morgan,&#8221; They invaded Crimea and took that in 2014, that was wrong. Putin is a combat crime, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Additionally, according to the Republican, Russia is basically&#8221; a gas place with a bunch of radioactive arms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Republicans, including presidential nominee Nikki Haley and former vice president Mike Pence, who claimed that American support for Ukraine serves the national interest, criticized DeSantis&#8217; comment after the Florida conflict&#8221; regional debate&#8221; reply.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">DeSantis told Fox News&#8217; <em>Tucker Carlson Tonight<\/em> on March 13 that while the United States has most important national interest, getting involved in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">DeSantis informed Morgan that his remarks had&#8221; been mischaracterized&#8221; and promised to return the stolen land to Ukraine if he could&#8221; snap&#8221; his&#8221; fingers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/tik-tok-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbads&#038;utm_campaign=bantiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/tik-tok-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbads&#038;utm_campaign=bantiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">DeSantis told Morgan,&#8221; But the truth is what America&#8217;s role is in terms of escalating with more weapons, and truly ground imagine I think would be a fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment comes after likely presidential candidate referred to war in Ukraine as &#8216;territorial dispute&#8217; Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) in a Thursday interview called Russian president Vladimir Putin a &#8220;war criminal,&#8221; a comment that distances the expected presidential candidate from his remark last week that downplayed the Ukraine war as a &#8220;territorial dispute.&#8221; &#8220;Obviously, Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1903786,"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":[544],"tags":[7710,3977,4980,22594,3733,6696],"class_list":["post-1903785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-brand","tag-criminal","tag-desantis","tag-pivots","tag-putin","tag-war"],"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\/1903785","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}