Ron DeSantis rules out Israel trip in wake of Hamas attack

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'They've got a job to do. Our job here in the United States is to support them.'

Florida’s Governor has been to Israel twice since his election, and prior to that while in Congress, but he won’t be going there anytime soon.

During a Newsmax interview, Ron DeSantis said trips from politicians are just “getting in the way” of Israeli military operations against Hamas.

“I’ve been requested to kind of go over there,” DeSantis said. But he added that he’s “not going to go over there at this time.”

“I think that to have politicians going over there … I think you’re just getting in the way of what’s going on. They’ve got a job to do. Our job here in the United States is to support them. They should be able to defend themselves to the hilt and get the job done. And that’s what I’ll be doing,” DeSantis said.

“I know some other Governors are thinking about going over, but that’s not what I’m going to be doing because I don’t think that that’s going to be productive for them to get the job done. So we’re helping from here with the flights. We’ve sent a lot of donated supplies to Israel that we’ve flown over and we’re happy to be in the fight in that regard, but not for any, any theatrics.”

Indeed, politicians not only are thinking about going over, but some have made the trip, including Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. She went to the Western Wall and “prayed for the victims of Hamas’ horrific attacks, their families, and all the innocent civilians lost as a result.”

Another prominent Democratic Governor, California’s Gavin Newsom, is in the country now.

Former President Donald Trump told reporters this week that “maybe” he’d go, but he’d “thought about it” and he believes “in letting them do what they have to do.”

DeSantis has spoken critically about President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel, saying that if he were President, he’d be “doing it probably from the White House,” as he was “not sure it was a good idea to go there and inject yourself into a situation like that.”

“I mean, we can do policy without doing that when the President shows up,” DeSantis told Brian Kilmeade Wednesday. “It creates all kinds of complications.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


8 comments

  • My Take

    October 20, 2023 at 11:36 am

    “a Newsmax interview”
    =========
    He knows right where to finď the dumb voters.

  • Biscuit

    October 20, 2023 at 11:40 am

    “I’ve been requested to kind of go over there,” DeSantis said.

    Kind of go over there? Sounds like someone suggested he fly out over the ocean and jump.
    His use of “kind of” is a tipoff to the probability that he is flat out lying, that no one “requested” his presence in Israel, and that his campaign team discussed the idea. You don’t “kind of” go anywhere.
    Stupid human.
    Arf.

    • Rick Whitaker

      October 20, 2023 at 11:44 am

      of course he flat out lied. here’s you a bone, good dog

  • Biscuit

    October 20, 2023 at 11:44 am

    “I mean, we can do policy without doing that when the President shows up,” DeSantis said.

    Makes no sense at all, that sentence. No treat for Ronnie Boy.
    Stupid human.
    Arf.

  • Earl Pitts "The Earl Of Politics" American

    October 20, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    Good afternoon America,
    Just got off the phone with the President of Israel and hes saying to me, “Please Earl find a way for the next POTUS, Ron “The Ronald” Desantis, to come over and visit me so we can discuss matters of great Global Importance”.
    And I advised him that we have our own Dook 4 Brains Leftist problems here in The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave which The The Ronald, as our next POTUS, is single handedly resolving.
    So lets just keep with the optics of our press release to keep the leftist compliant press off balance.
    Also I, The Earl of Politics, assured Israel’s President that if the dook really does hit the fan over there in Israel that I myself, Earl Pitts American, will fly over and personally lead the front line “Tip-Of-The-Spear” attack on the Dook 4 Brains bearded Muzzys in an operation code named “The Great Crusades 2.0” which will instill a deep and respectfull fear in those muzzy’s evil hearts for The God of Aberham, Issac, and Jacob.
    If and when that happens, it will be on like:
    “Boyaah Say Your Prayers Muzzy’s, Earl Pitts “The Lion Hearted” American is here to clean your clocks, to shoot out your eyeballs, to make you beg for mercy.
    So America, in the mean-time the best thing to do is “Relax Your Sphincters”,
    EPA

    • rick whitaker

      October 21, 2023 at 6:49 am

      WARNING TROLL CCOMMENT BY EARL SHITS

  • where's Ronbo

    October 21, 2023 at 9:23 am

    Geeze, one would think that Ronbo would dust off his top gun threads and make Hamas pay! Chicken little will perhaps go tilt at windmills or cornstalks in Iowa. Please don’t forget your cute white rubber boots Ronboy, or Ronbo Santos. You “kind of” look cute in dem der boots!

    • MH/Duuuval

      October 21, 2023 at 10:20 am

      White waterproof boots are typically worn by workers in seafood and concrete finishing. If you want to go after Ron’s footwear, please go after the hand-tooled, soft leather, black elevator boots.

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