{"id":2025830,"date":"2023-09-08T13:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-admins-damning-report-in-2021-undermines-lockdown-attacks-on-desantis\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T17:10:22","slug":"trump-admins-damning-report-in-2021-undermines-lockdown-attacks-on-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-admins-damning-report-in-2021-undermines-lockdown-attacks-on-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Report Undermines Lockdown Attacks on DeSantis by Trump Admin"},"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%2Ftrump-admins-damning-report-in-2021-undermines-lockdown-attacks-on-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=2025830&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>Trump Admin&#8217;s Damning \u2063Report in 2021 Undermines Lockdown\u2062 Attacks on DeSantis<\/h2>\n<p>On Wednesday, former\u200c President \u200dDonald Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt that Florida \u2062Gov. \u2063Ron DeSantis \u2014 and one of\u200d Trump\u2019s\u2063 challengers for the 2024\u2062 Republican\u2062 presidential nomination \u2014 had over-reacted in his response \u200bto the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-fauci-new-study-finds-closing-schools-in-response-to-covid-19-delayed-herd-immunity-and-will-increase-overall-deaths\/\" title=\"FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a> in his state.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe shut down Florida,\u201d \u2062Trump claimed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/hughhewitt.com\/former-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president<\/a>-donald-trump-on-his-trials-and-his-campaign&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>interview<\/a>. \u201cIt was tight as a\u2063 drum. He had vax lines. He was vaxxing everything. Now, he talks\u200c about\u2062 the vaccinations this and that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But that\u2019s not what the \u2062Trump White House was saying \u2062during the actual pandemic, just days before Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/declassified-documents-prove-fbi-knowingly-and-willfully-lied-to-fisa-court-to-spy-on-trump-campaign-video\/\" title=\"Declassified Documents Prove FBI Knowingly and Willfully Lied to FISA Court to Spy on Trump Campaign (Video)\">left office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A message from the \u200bTrump administration\u2019s Coronavirus Task Force on Jan.\u200d 10, 2021,\u2064 warned DeSantis \u200bthat his state was \u201cin the red zone for \u2062cases\u201d of COVID and that \u201cactive and aggressive immunization\u201d using \u2064the vaccines developed under Trump\u2019s\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-operation-warp-speed-secures-100-million-additional-doses-covid-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Warp Speed<\/a> was necessary to \u201csave lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida must increase both statewide \u200cand local public mitigation,\u201d the\u200c note said. \u201cIncrease communication around the \u2062importance of \u200cpersonal mitigation with masking,\u200c physical distancing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-admins-damning-report-in-2021-undermines-lockdown-attacks-on-desantis\/\" title=\"2021 Report Undermines Lockdown Attacks on DeSantis by Trump Admin\">avoiding family gatherings<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, no matter how locked down Florida was under \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-torches-left-wing-reporter-will-not-let-accuse-criminal-activity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeSantis<\/a>, \u200dthe Trump administration\u200d was\u2064 saying it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>But that was then, and this is\u2062 now.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201c[W]hen Ron DeSantis says on the debate stage you didn\u2019t\u2064 fire Fauci\u2063 and \u200cyou shut down \u2062the country and that was a mistake, how will you respond?\u201d Hewitt\u2064 asked Trump.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOkay, you \u200bready? It\u2019s so easy to respond,\u201d Trump responded, according to a transcript \u2064of the interview. \u201cHe said \u2026\u200c he wouldn\u2019t let anybody \u2063come \u2062in. He shut down his beaches. He shut down the entire \u200cstate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tries, he has\u2064 a \u2063selective memory. He \u200cshut down. Henry McMaster didn\u2019t\u200c shut down South Carolina. Krisi Noem didn\u2019t shut down South\u200c Dakota.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-number-children-currently-border-patrol-custody-dwarfs-trump-administration-peak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump\u2019s administration<\/a>, however, pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-sends-warning-part-florida-reports-hurricane-looting-loot-shoot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeSantis<\/a> in 2021 to\u200d be more restrictive, not less.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump White House also pushed DeSantis to work \u200bon \u201cmaintaining \u2063public confidence and maximizing vaccine\u200b acceptance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida <em>must<\/em> increase both statewide and local\u200b public \u200cmitigation,\u201d it said [emphasis added].<\/p>\n<p>You can see the \u2062entire \u201cState Report\u201d below and judge for yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal;display: block\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force Report on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/490719375\/White-House-Coronavirus-Task-Force-report-on-Florida-1-10-21#from_embed\">Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force \u2064Report<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View The Western Journal's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/480928840\/The-Western-Journal#from_embed\">The Western Journal<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The DeSantis campaign, of course, wasted no time in capitalizing on this apparent about-face from the former president.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DESANTIS tears\u200d into the Trump \u2064White House COVID Task Force:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanuary of 2021, weeks before\u2062 he left office,\u201d the Task\u2063 Force was ordering us to \u201cimpose \u2063a mask\u200d mandate and close bars and restaurants and \u200dbusinesses.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9SPcFflp0F\">pic.twitter.com\/9SPcFflp0F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeSantis War Room  (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeSantisWarRoom\/status\/1699790948178571279?\">September 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJanuary of 2021, weeks\u200b before [Trump] left office, they were \u2064sending us missives to Florida\u2062 saying \u2018impose a mask mandate and close bar \u200cand restaurants\u200b and businesses,\u201d DeSantis said at a recent event.\u2062 \u201cAnd that\u2019s what they were pushing. And that was pretty much uniform throughout the political and bureaucratic sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we \u2063had to be the ones to stand in\u2062 the breech on that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-admins-damning-report-2021-undermines-lockdown-attacks-desantis\/\">Trump Admin&#8217;s Damning\u200c Report in 2021 Undermines Lockdown Attacks on DeSantis<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, ex-President Donald Trump criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, for what he perceived as an excessive response to the pandemic. 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