{"id":1991548,"date":"2023-08-04T21:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T01:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-attacks-trump-for-not-draining-the-swamp-and-calls-his-insults-juvenile\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T21:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T01:58:21","slug":"desantis-attacks-trump-for-not-draining-the-swamp-and-calls-his-insults-juvenile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-attacks-trump-for-not-draining-the-swamp-and-calls-his-insults-juvenile\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis criticizes Trump for not &#8216;draining swamp,&#8217; labels insults &#8216;childish.&#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\">20<\/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-attacks-trump-for-not-draining-the-swamp-and-calls-his-insults-juvenile%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=1991548&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 Slams Former President Donald Trump, Calls His Insults &#8220;Phony&#8221; and &#8220;Juvenile&#8221;<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s\u2063 running in 2024 on the things \u200dthat he promised\u2064 to do in 2016 and didn\u2019t \u200bdo,&#8221; DeSantis said on \u200cWMUR 9 News&#8217;s Conversation with the Candidate, where he \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nra-board-retroactively-approves-bankruptcy-plan-as-trial-approaches\/\" title=\"NRA Board Retroactively Approves Bankruptcy Plan as Trial Approaches\">addressed questions<\/a> from New Hampshire voters. &#8220;He said he \u2064was going\u200c to drain the swamp. He did not drain the swamp. Not even close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Biden \u200dand Republicans Clash Over Defining the Economy<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis highlighted Trump&#8217;s\u2063 failure\u2062 to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has faced criticism from Republicans and the former president himself for his role as an adviser on the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We ended his presidency with \u200cAnthony Fauci running the country,&#8221; DeSantis said.\u200b &#8220;He couldn\u2019t even fire Fauci? And so now you\u2019re going to drain the swamp? Give \u2062me a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump and DeSantis are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mother-arrested-after-creating-deepfake-images-showing-teen-daughters-cheerleader-rivals-naked-drinking\/\" title=\"Mother Arrested After Creating \u2018Deepfake\u2019 Images Showing Teen Daughter\u2019s Cheerleader Rivals Naked, Drinking\">leading rivals<\/a> for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but they previously supported\u2064 each other. However, Trump has \u2064denied ever liking the \u200cFlorida governor. DeSantis acknowledged that he once supported Trump and appreciates many of his accomplishments,\u200b but he \u2064condemned the former president&#8217;s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to insult somebody\u2019s looks or somebody\u2019s\u2064 dress or something like that,&#8221; \u2062DeSantis said. &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t teach my kids to treat people like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been escalating his criticism of DeSantis as\u200d the election cycle progresses. DeSantis had been holding back until a few months ago when he criticized\u2064 the former \u200dpresident&#8217;s record \u200cfor adding trillions to the national debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then he actually said he was going \u2062to eliminate the national debt,\u201d DeSantis reiterated Friday. \u201cHe added $8 \u2063trillion to the debt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The total gross debt in the nation \u2063was around $19.5 trillion at\u2063 the end \u200dof fiscal 2016, ending\u2062 several months before Trump entered the White House. The U.S. debt sat at $26.9\u200b trillion at the end of fiscal\u2063 2020, a \u200b$7.4 trillion increase before Trump \u2064left office, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis refrained from commenting on Trump&#8217;s\u200b legal battles following the former president&#8217;s arraignment in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for 2020 election charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Trump\u200c leads in the national polls, he&#8217;s not doing \u2063as well in New Hampshire compared \u200dto other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-attacks-trump-for-not-draining-the-swamp-and-calls-his-insults-juvenile\/\" title=\"DeSantis criticizes Trump for not 'draining swamp,' labels insults 'childish.'\">early voting\u2062 swing states<\/a>. Trump has 34% support, while DeSantis has 13%,\u2062 according \u2062to\u2063 a poll \u200cconducted in July by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are millions \u200bof voters out there \u2063who do not like what Biden is doing to this country,\u201d DeSantis\u200d said. \u201cThey do not like the \u2063direction this country is going in. But they are not going to sign up for \u200da candidate who is behaving like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) criticized ex-President Donald Trump, branding his insults as &#8220;phony&#8221; and &#8220;juvenile.&#8221; DeSantis questioned Trump&#8217;s presidential achievements, highlighting his failure to fulfill promises made in 2016. Speaking on WMUR 9 News&#8217;s Conversation with the Candidate, DeSantis addressed queries from New Hampshire residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991549,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1991548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1991548","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=1991548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}