{"id":1948151,"date":"2023-06-15T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-responds-to-trump-indictment-with-calls-for-fbi-and-doj-accountability\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:02:13","slug":"desantis-responds-to-trump-indictment-with-calls-for-fbi-and-doj-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-responds-to-trump-indictment-with-calls-for-fbi-and-doj-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis demands FBI and DOJ &#8216;accountability&#8217; in response to Trump indictment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-responds-to-trump-indictment-with-calls-for-fbi-and-doj-accountability%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=1948151&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>Gov. Ron DeSantis Takes Aim at DOJ and FBI, Avoids Mentioning Trump&#8217;s Indictment<\/h2>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has adopted a new approach in addressing the news-dominating spectacle of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s indictment over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-calls-legit-criticism-of-corrupt-fbi-violence-but-we-werent-born-yesterday-2\/\" title=\"FBI Director Calls Legit Criticism Of Corrupt FBI \u2018Violence,\u2019 But We Weren\u2019t Born Yesterday\">mishandling classified documents<\/a>. During a news conference where he signed Florida&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-responds-to-trump-indictment-with-calls-for-fbi-and-doj-accountability\/\" title=\"DeSantis demands FBI and DOJ 'accountability' in response to Trump indictment.\">state record 7 billion budget<\/a>, DeSantis shifted the focus to criticizing the Department of Justice and the FBI for their handling of investigations involving Democrats.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My mission is to bring accountability to politicized agencies like DOJ, FBI. We&#8217;re going to excise the political bias. And we are going to end the weaponization of the federal government,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The governor expressed his frustration with the federal agencies, accusing them of wielding power unevenly. He pointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorsed-candidates-close-in-on-opponents-in-key-senate-races\/\" title=\"Trump-Endorsed Candidates Close In on Opponents in Key Senate Races\">legal troubles faced<\/a> by Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as examples of biased investigations. DeSantis argued that if Hunter Biden were a Republican, he would have been in jail long ago. He also criticized the handling of Clinton&#8217;s classified information, stating that the investigation was not rigorous.<\/p>\n<p>As a 2024 presidential candidate, DeSantis vowed to reform these agencies if he becomes president. He promised a new FBI director on day one and a thorough house cleaning of these agencies to put an end to the weaponization of government.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, DeSantis did not mention Trump by name or address the specific allegations of the indictment, including obstruction of justice and holding onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-global-elections-set-to-rock-the-world-in-2022\/\" title=\"Five Global Elections Set to Rock the World in 2022\">sensitive national security documents<\/a> in violation of the Espionage Act.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis faces the challenge of maintaining a delicate balance as he seeks to unseat Trump as the front-runner in the Republican presidential race without alienating Trump&#8217;s supporters. His strategy seems to be avoiding direct discussion of Trump and instead focusing on the &#8220;weaponization&#8221; of the federal government. His allies, including his super PAC, Never Back Down, have followed suit by not mentioning Trump in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/many-democrat-campaign-ads-feature-messages-distancing-them-from-biden-and-the-party\/\" title=\"Many Democrat Campaign Ads Feature Messages Distancing Them From Biden and the Party\">recent political ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the effectiveness of this strategy remains to be seen. Recent polling indicates that Trump has not lost significant Republican support since news of the indictment broke.<\/p>\n<p>Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in a Miami courthouse and confidently declared his intention to win the presidency in 2024, vowing to &#8220;obliterate the deep state&#8221; upon reelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) finally addressed former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 37-count indictment during a news conference where he signed Florida&#8217;s state record. DeSantis had been avoiding the topic, but now seems to have a new strategy for dealing with the news-dominating spectacle of Trump&#8217;s mishandling of classified documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1948152,"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":[538],"tags":[8049,4201,4980,7076,5591,15074,4115,3634],"class_list":["post-1948151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-accountability","tag-demands","tag-desantis","tag-doj","tag-fbi","tag-indictment","tag-response","tag-trump"],"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\/1948151","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=1948151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}