A.G. Gancarski
More than two and a half years after the Capitol Riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Gov. Ron DeSantis is now saying Donald Trump didn’t do enough to stop it.
“I think it’s been well documented, kind of, his conduct when it first started how he sat there. He could have obviously leaned in harder, I think. I mean, even his own kids were texting saying, you know, he needs to do more, he needs to do more,” DeSantis told Megyn Kelly.
DeSantis’ latest position continues a series of shifting stances on the matter that have continued into the present.
During a July interview with Russell Brand, DeSantis rejected the idea that the siege of the Capitol to block the certification of President Joe Biden’s election was an “insurrection,” and said that those protesters were not “seditionists,” but hapless folks who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“It was not an insurrection. These are people that were there to attend a rally and then they were there to protest,” DeSantis said.
He noted things went badly despite the benign intent of attendees, but blamed the media for framing the issue badly.
“It devolved into a riot. But the idea that this was a plan to somehow overthrow the government of the United States is not true. And it’s something that the media had spun up just to try to basically, you know, get as much mileage out of it and use it for partisan and for political aims,” DeSantis said, adding that “a lot of people that were there who were just there and they didn’t have any designs on doing anything.”
DeSantis admonished Trump for standing by as chaos happened on January 6, 2021, as supporters tried to stop certification of the 2020 Presidential Election.
“I think it was shown how he was in the White House and didn’t do anything while things were going on. He should have come out more forcefully,” the Governor said during a press conference in West Columbia, South Carolina.
DeSantis’ change of tone about the events of that fateful day has been weeks in the making.
During a town hall in New Hampshire last month, DeSantis dodged an audience question about Trump’s role.
“So I wasn’t anywhere near Washington that day. I have nothing to do with what happened that day,” DeSantis responded, refusing to directly engage the question.
In February, DeSantis likened protests at the Florida Capitol to the Jan. 6 riot.
“It’s interesting that if they’re doing that from the Left, then the media says that’s ‘democracy in action.’ They don’t say it’s an insurrection if you take over a Capitol because of that, but I think that’s what it’s getting to.”
The Governor commented on Jan. 6 last spring, when he said concern about the riots that delayed congressional certification of the 2020 Presidential Election was a “dead horse” and a “loser” with voters.
On the anniversary of the incident, he offered similar dismissals of the focus of media and Democrats, diminishing the riot.
“This is their Christmas,” he said of the media and Democrats at a January 2022 news conference. He expanded on that take in a subsequent fundraising email, contending “Jan. 6th is like Christmas for the out-of-touch D.C., New York political and media class.”
10 comments
tom palmer
July 28, 2023 at 4:33 pm
Really? I’m shocked, shocked that gambling is occurring here.
Mark
July 28, 2023 at 9:47 pm
Claude Rains. “Casablanca” would’ve been a forgotten B movie without him.
My Take
July 28, 2023 at 11:08 pm
“Round up the usual suspects.”
Isn’t that he too?
Dont Say FLA
July 28, 2023 at 5:22 pm
Rhonda is sort of criticizing Trump. According to Rhonda’s Rules Of Criticism, that means Trump is highly effective and Rhonda considers Trump to be a threat. LOL @ Scaredy Pants Rhonda
It's interesting
July 28, 2023 at 7:36 pm
Rhonda claims everything is interesting, but he never explains how or why.
Earl Pitts "The Ronald's UnOffical Volunteer Campaign Manager" American
July 28, 2023 at 8:36 pm
Good evening America,
Allright its officially on…let the mud slinging begin!!!!
So far its just been Trump slinging the poo. Trumps been all “Desantis this and Desantis that. I think Trump even said earlier today that he wants Desantis to withdraw from the race so Trump can hand the election over AGAIN to the Demacrats as Trump did in 2020…or something like that … dont hold me to Trump’s exact words but thats what Trump ment when he said whatever it was that he said earlier today.
But this is actually the First signaficent juicy log of poo which Desantis has actually lobbed in Trump’s direction.
BOOM BAM. BIFF. KABLOUEY
In Your Face Trump even your kids called and begged you to do more to shut down Jan 6th.
ZING KAPOW. ZOINKS.
* Think the origional BatMan TV Show from the 1960’s America!!!!!! With Trump as The Penguin and Ron Desantis as Batman!!!*
With more butt kicking, poo flinging, mud slinging to come. Same BAT Time Same Bat Channel!
BIFF. ZING. KAPOWEY. BAM
Thank you America,
EPA
RonBeGone
July 28, 2023 at 11:22 pm
I thought he preferred white boots, but here he is with his flip-flops again.
My Take
July 29, 2023 at 12:53 am
Trump LOVED the insurrection. It was his. He tried to go.
JS
July 29, 2023 at 1:17 am
Rhonda kissed Trump’s Rump for years and years and when he finally turned against him, it was only to showcase himself as the Trumpier Trump.
Buddy, nobody votes for the understudy. They always go with the original Broadway production. And you, Rhonda Sandtits, are the summer stock version of Cats, starring James Corden.
Andrew
July 29, 2023 at 12:22 pm
Ron would have used Betsy DeVos brother Erik Prince and his private militia to attack the Capitol!
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