The real reason Donald Trump is suddenly attacking Ron DeSantis
Florida governor DeSantis is as irrelevant today on the national scene as Kevin McCarthy. We understand why Donald Trump no longer mentions McCarthy. But why did he recently grab a verbal spade and dig up the rotting corpse of Ron DeSantis? The MeidasTouch Network wondered the same thing, and they may have found the answer.
On Saturday Donald Trump turned his slow-witted attention to DeSantis for one of his trademark verbal attacks, when he bragged at his event that he hit Ron DeSantis low and high and to the side, and that he ultimately conquered the Florida governor. Trump made this attack despite the fact that DeSantis already endorsed Trump for president.
Trump even compared his attacks on DeSantis to the attacks his administration levelled against ISIS. “I hit him hard, I hit him low, just like we did to ISIS…We hit this guy so hard,” Trump said. “He’s a shell of the man…We have to hit our enemies hard.” Trump bragged that he ultimately conquered the Florida governor.
Like McCarthy, DeSantis found a way to fail to meet the absurdly low standards of the MAGA crowd. When fate handed him all the advantages necessary to forge a minor place in the blackened hearts of MAGA cretins everywhere, his runaway incompetence and stupidity carried the day.
So what does Trump’s attack on DeSantis, seemingly from nowhere, mean? “Trump began attacking DeSantis again right after DeSantis signed legislation to allow the release of grand jury documents in the Epstein case,” the MeidasTouch Network noticed. Is there a connection, they wonder? Is Trump terrified of the revelations that may come from the examination of Epstein’s grand jury investigation?
Iraq War Veteran Peter Henlein wonders the same thing. “If you had any doubt that the release of the Florida Epstein grand jury files is going to destroy Trump, remove that doubt,” Henlein said. “Trump and his political operation are suddenly spending an equal amount of effort attacking DeSantis as they are Biden…..which makes no sense,” Henlein wrote Saturday. “They aren’t attacking Haley at all, who refused to endorse Trump and stayed in the race much longer than DeSantis, but they are passionately attacking DeSantis, who dropped out after Iowa and endorsed Trump……which makes no sense.”
All this is speculation, of course. But it’s speculation backed by a reliable Trump pattern. Any time Trump fears an attack from some quarter, he almost always attacks preemptively. Could this be such a preemptive attack, because Trump fears what Epstein might reveal about him from beyond the grave? Perhaps.
Whatever the case, anybody thinking Donald Trump is somehow “getting away” with all his past and present criminal behaviour, would do well to understand that Donald Trump is going through a special kind of hell right now. While his various criminal trials loom closer and closer, each passing day inevitably brings some kind of bad news, like this latest revelation of the release of transcripts from the Epstein grand jury.
So grand jury transcripts from a 2006 Florida investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of dozens of underage girls will be released publicly later this year. Is it really more bad news for Trump? We will have to wait and see. The good news is, it looks like it could indeed be very bad news for Trump, and we won’t have to wait very long to find out. And, as ever, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, stay safe.
Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.