A.G. Gancarski
President Donald Trump waded into Florida affairs Sunday, condemning Democrat Mike Bloomberg for fundraising to pay off the fines of 32,000 reformed felons, allowing a pathway for them to vote in November.
The President echoed and amplified the concerns of Florida Republicans in a pyrotechnic Sunday morning tweet, saying the payouts amount to a “serious crime,” a bribe to recipients to vote Democratic.
“Wow, nobody realized how far Mini Mike Bloomberg went in bribing ex-prisoners to go out and vote for Sleepy Joe. He is desperate to get back into the good graces of the people who not only badly beat him, but made him look like a total fool. Now he’s committed a serious crime!”
As is often the case, the President amped up the rhetoric, giving new visibility to concerns raised last week by some of his staunchest supporters in the Sunshine State.
Bloomberg’s $16 million commitment to pay the debts of potential voters via the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which includes over $5 million in his personal fortune, has roiled Florida Republicans.
Trump’s most high-profile supporter in the state suggested that in addition to being a serious crime, the spending may be discriminatory.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Fox News Friday night suggested that the former New York mayor’s decision to pay the fines and fees has a racially determined component.
“Our Attorney General’s investigating that,” the Governor told host Laura Ingraham. “It’s a situation where he’s doing it, he’s discriminating on the basis of race, he’s only paying off if you’re a certain race.”
“And basically I think someone in his organization said, yeah, because we think they’ll vote for the candidate we want. And under Florida law, that very well may run afoul of that. We’ll have to see,” DeSantis said.
“So it’s being investigated. It may be being investigated federally, but it certainly is being investigated by the state Attorney General in the state of Florida.”
Ashley Moody, the current Attorney General, has urged the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement to look into potential illegality. And U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has also suggested criminality could be afoot.
6 comments
Sonja Fitch
September 27, 2020 at 1:48 pm
Well hims does know bribing from porn stars to 14 year old girl he raped! Trump just calls em NDA. This live if crap bad to be punted to the bunker! VoteBlue ! Vote Democrat up and down ballot!
Frankie M.
September 27, 2020 at 3:27 pm
Now if we could only get Lebron to change his residence to Florida so we can charge him with a felony to keep him from voting. Just because Trump is familiar with criminal behavior doesn’t make him a legal expert. I watched Law & Order marathons in college but that doesn’t make me Hank Coxe. The president’s political appointees/sycophants are now going through with this dog & pony show after subverting the will of the people on Amendment 4. If they didn’t want other people paying off ex felons legal bills they should have thought of that before destroying the intent of the voters.
Palmer Tom
September 27, 2020 at 4:21 pm
Where are the comments? Fix your website.
Edward Freeman
September 28, 2020 at 4:00 am
Boy, if that ain’t the pot calling the kettle black. Bloomberg offers to spend his own money to bring 32,000 Floridians back into the community of citizens, as 65% of Floridians have said should have happened nearly two years and as our basic law, our constitution, says should happen. Now three of the country’s biggest crooks, Trump, DeSantis, and Moody, along with their sideshow clown, Gaetz, are going to use taxpayer dollars to try to stop him, so they can continue the blatantly illegal and racist campaign to prevent Floridians from voting. Shameful, but of course these crooks have no shame.
Dadood
September 28, 2020 at 2:16 pm
I guess Donny Dementia promising $200 gift cards to seniors, $500 million for minority loans and all the other free stuff he is handing out, ooops, promising to hand out, is not a felony for election meddling? Only when the democrats try to follow the voters wishes are things a f3elony for the GOP. Florida voters said felons should be able to vote and passed the law. The republicans saw that most would vote for democrats, so they changed the law the voters passed, to keep them from voting. The GOP can only win through lies, cheating, voter intimidation, voter suppression and gerrymandering. They have tried to destroy mail in voting and the USPS, to make their point, that they know if voters are allowed to vote, they will lose. Time to vote them to the curb and put America back on a path to honesty, integrity, morals, honor and ethics. These are all things the GOP has flushed down their sewer over the past 20 years. Veterans Against Trump
James Robert Miles
September 29, 2020 at 7:22 am
Don the con talks about bribing? Not that he didn’t try to bribe so many people already including his simpleton followers to get their votes. Trump is the ultimate hypocrite! DUMP TRUMP 2020. America can’t take anymore of his insanity!
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