{"id":1938245,"date":"2023-05-25T19:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T23:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-responds-to-rfk-jr-claim-hed-burn-cdc-nih-to-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T23:43:07","slug":"ron-desantis-responds-to-rfk-jr-claim-hed-burn-cdc-nih-to-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-responds-to-rfk-jr-claim-hed-burn-cdc-nih-to-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis denies plan to burn CDC\/NIH."},"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%2Fron-desantis-responds-to-rfk-jr-claim-hed-burn-cdc-nih-to-the-ground%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=1938245&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--><h2>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Responds to Claims of Advocating Burning CDC and NIH &#8220;to the Ground&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>On Thursday, Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sunny-hostin-slams-desantis-for-announcing-with-unpopular-elon-musk-her-own-producers-fact-check-her-on-the-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> responded to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/rfk-jr-says-ron-desantis-invited-him-to-breakfast-revealed-plan-to-burn-the-national-institutes-of-health-to-the-ground\/ar-AA1b4pBl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claim<\/a> that he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-responds-to-rfk-jr-claim-hed-burn-cdc-nih-to-the-ground\/\" title=\"DeSantis denies plan to burn CDC\/NIH.\">advocated burning<\/a> the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) &#8220;to the ground.&#8221; And he didn&#8217;t back down an inch.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/forget-the-internet-elon-musk-and-ron-desantis-broke-john-cusack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-incoming-congresswoman-announces-objection-to-electoral-college-votes\/\" title=\"Another Incoming Congresswoman Announces Objection To Electoral College Votes\">officially announced<\/a> his candidacy<\/a> for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, made it clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stfu-israeli-arab-muslim-blasts-aoc-for-calling-israel-an-apartheid-state\/\" title=\"\u2018STFU\u2019: Israeli Arab Muslim Blasts AOC For Calling Israel An Apartheid State\">complete destruction<\/a> of those particular institutions might be going too easy on them.<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis Sets the Record Straight<\/h3>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MUST WATCH: Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RonDeSantis<\/a> addresses reports that he said he hopes to &#8220;burn&#8221; the CDC and NIH &#8220;to the ground&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aXwCNDHRJr\">pic.twitter.com\/aXwCNDHRJr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeSantis War Room \ud83d\udc0a (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeSantisWarRoom\/status\/1661799202492481541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There was a report that &#8211; I had spoken with Bobby Kennedy Jr., and he had said that &#8216;the governor said that you know, that we need to burn to the ground the CDC&#8217; and all these things,&#8221; DeSantis began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I just want to be very clear, full disclosure,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;I was not that kind to CDC and NIH and any of those [agencies]. Just for the record, just so your viewers don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going soft, but I can&#8217;t think of a more catastrophic response than how this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-conservative-backlash-department-of-education-scales-back-critical-race-theory-plans\/\" title=\"After Conservative Backlash, Department Of Education Scales Back Critical Race Theory Plans\">country responded<\/a> to COVID, particularly at the federal level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis went on to call out the CDC directly, along with former Coronavirus Task Force leader Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And nothing has been done about it, to hold any of those folks accountable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis Takes a Swipe at Fauci and Trump<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis, a longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/if-i-had-my-druthers-ron-desantis-knows-exactly-what-hed-do-with-dr-anthony-fauci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critic of Fauci<\/a> in particular, also took a swipe at former President Donald Trump and argued that by putting Fauci in charge, Trump bore some responsibility for the U.S. response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeSantis on Trump Covid response: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he turned the country over to Fauci&#8230; that destroyed millions of people&#8217;s lives.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wZipXzhJh9\">pic.twitter.com\/wZipXzhJh9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1661805469177090048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;When he turned the country over to Fauci in March of 2020, that destroyed millions of people&#8217;s lives,&#8221; DeSantis said of Trump, saying that up to that point, he believed the former president had done a good job with regard to policy.<\/p>\n<p>Once Fauci was allowed to influence policies such as shutting down schools and businesses, however, DeSantis argued that Florida had essentially stood alone in its efforts to keep things open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Florida, since COVID, has out-performed virtually any state in the country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dismissed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s accusation that he suggested burning down the CDC and NIH. DeSantis, who announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, stood firm in his response to the claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1938246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[8154,27647,4775,4980,4025],"class_list":["post-1938245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-burn","tag-cdc-nih","tag-denies","tag-desantis","tag-plan"],"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\/1938245","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}