Donald Trump campaign alleges ‘unholy alliance’ between Ron DeSantis, DOJ

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The evidence for the claim comes from a donor's statement to NBC News, not from DeSantis himself.

Could there be collusion between Ron DeSantis and the Joe Biden administration’s Department of Justice?

Though the scenario sounds unlikely, the Donald Trump campaign asserts there is an “unholy alliance” between the two entities.

The claim is predicated on “a top DeSantis fundraiser (having) confessed that their ‘strategy’ relied on endless political prosecutions of President Trump by radical Leftist prosecutors.”

That so-called confession, rendered in an NBC News story about the 2024 race, involved DeSantis megadonor Hal Lambert suggesting a “possibility” that Trump gets out of the race due to legal troubles, even though none of these indictments have hurt him in polls yet.

“If another indictment out of D.C. comes,” Lambert said, “I could see them fast-tracking that before the end of the year.”

That prompted a response from Team Trump.

“As the DeSantis campaign continues to utterly collapse, Ron has shown he’s willing to take the side of deranged, Marxist prosecutors and the radical Left for any shot at stopping the nose dive that has left him in third place, heading only south,” the Trump campaign claims.

The Governor’s own words, meanwhile, have been mostly in defense of Trump, albeit mixed with rueful ruminations about how it has hurt his own campaign.

“At the end of the day, the Bragg indictment just elevated him and it wasn’t so much that people were doing it because he was indicted. I think a lot of people, including me, believe that it was a miscarriage of justice,” DeSantis told Howard Kurtz on the Fox News Channel’s “Mediabuzz.

The Governor added the indictment benefited Trump because “there was a lot of sympathy” and because it ended up “dominating the media coverage.”

DeSantis has stayed mostly on message during Trump’s legal issues, aside from a jab at “porn star hush money payments” during a press conference earlier this year as the Alvin Bragg indictment loomed.

“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” he said. “I just can’t speak to that.”

More typical were DeSantis’ comments in June after the Jack Smith indictment for classified documents, when the Governor invoked principles of whataboutism to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a political speech in North Carolina.

“When I was in Congress, I remember … Hillary had the e-mails with the classified and my view was, ‘Well, gee, you know, as a naval officer, if I would have taken classified to my apartment, I would have been court-martialed in a New York minute.’ And yet they seem to not care about that,” lamented DeSantis.

The Governor then asked rhetorically, if there was a “different standard for a Democrat Secretary of State versus a former Republican President.”

“I think there needs to be one standard of justice in this country. Let’s enforce it on everybody and make sure we all know the rules. You can’t have one faction of society, weaponizing the power of the state against factions that it doesn’t like,” DeSantis said. “And that’s what we’ve seen.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


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  • Dont Say FLA

    July 25, 2023 at 2:05 pm

    Rhonda’s strategery does entirely depend on prosecutions of Trump accumulating to a point where they might finally derail Trump. That doesn’t mean there’s collusion between DeSantis and the prosecution. For there to be collusion, DeSantis would have needed to collude with Trump to have Trump commit endless felonies for which he could be prosecuted. Silly Trump. He crazy.

  • Earl Pitts "The Ronalds Unofficial Campaign Manager" American

    July 25, 2023 at 2:14 pm

    Good afternoon America,
    This shows Trump was tuned into Rush’s old show when Clay Travis floated an off the wall scenario of the left going hard in the doctored polls to ensure Trump gets elected – then…[and here’s the unbelivable deep fictional part] the left will [somehow] talk Trump’s Veep into having Trump impeached.
    1.) It does prove Trump wants Desantis to be his Veep.
    2.) It is all based on total BS though; because Clay Travis…insert yet another tiresome “Outkick” plug…did not pull this wild political fiction out of thin air…oh no…Clay Travis…insert yet another “Outkick plug…reached up a dark, smelly place, where the sun dont shine to pull out this wild political fiction.
    Finally it shows Trump believed it: which is not a good thing.
    I, Earl Pitts American, smelled Clay Travis’…insert yet another tiresome “Outkick plug… BS (yes I smelled it thru the radio) way befor Travis even stopped talking about it.
    Just wanted Y’all to know the back story on this,
    EPA

    • Dont Say FLA

      July 25, 2023 at 2:33 pm

      Dad, Veeps don’t have anyone impeached. The House of Representatives does that. And then the Senate sits on their hands if the majority is the same party as the impeachee, otherwise the Senate convicts and the offender is removed from office. The one to impeach Trump for a third time will have to be Kevin McCarthy unless the Democrats take back the House in which case it would be some Democrat and, with Democrats controlling the Senate, no matter who instigates over on the House side, with Democrat controlled Senate, 3rd time around it’ll work. 3rd times a charm.
      The GOP realizes Trump, if elected, will likely be impeached yet again. Therefore, if they have a functioning brain in the whole group, they will run somebody as VP that they assume would become President shortly into Trump’s 2nd term.

      • Joe

        July 25, 2023 at 3:11 pm

        Senate requires 2/3 vote to convict on impeachment, which means there is zero chance we see an impeachment conviction any time soon.

  • My Take

    July 25, 2023 at 2:26 pm

    Does Rhonda have stooges at Mar-a-Lardo?

  • Joe

    July 25, 2023 at 3:08 pm

    I mean, it’s a transparently ridiculous claim, but I’m still enjoying Trump absolutely demolishing Tiny D’s campaign. Lil Ronnie and his supervisor Casey were not prepared for this ordeal at all.

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