A.G. Gancarski
Let the healing begin.
That’s the big takeaway from U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds‘ interview Saturday night on Fox News.
The Naples Republican told Lara Trump that he’d be collaborative with the Legislature, a meaningful comment given the arm twisting from the Governor’s Office and national media surrogates about legislative “RINOs” and “Republican-lite squishes” surrounding the immigration legislation passed after a series of Special Sessions earlier this year.
“We saw some of the stuff in the Legislature, and I don’t really want to get too deep in it,” Donalds told the daughter-in-law of the President who endorsed him, by way of prioritizing “setting the example of how we’re going to have the cordial conversations that are necessary.”
Beyond that, Donalds had a message for those allied with likely gubernatorial candidate First Lady Casey DeSantis, who might want to push oppo against him.
“I’m not going to be intimidated. I know what I’ve done wrong in my life,” Donalds told Trump.
He noted a youthful arrest for marijuana possession and a no-contest plea for theft before he was old enough to drink before previewing how he intends to frame that as the beginning of a redemption narrative.
“I made a lot of mistakes when I was young. But you know, when I was a youth leader, we would tell the children in a youth group that when you mess up, you make up, but you never give up. And I never gave up on myself,” Donalds said.
He then offered a message to his would-be critics.
“So to people who want to dig up dirt and throw it at me, I say, I’m not going anywhere; I’m going to be right here. And I think that if you can go through life being better than you were the day before, then nobody can do anything to you.”
10 comments
Ocean Joe
March 9, 2025 at 10:58 am
OK, Donalds wants to get out in front of the Desantis smear campaign. But when you consider the histories of Rick Scott and Donald Trump, it’s pretty clear Florida Republicans love scoundrels, and compared to massive medicare fraud and setting a mob to ransack the Capitol in order to prevent the lawful transfer of power, Donalds is a GOP choirboy.
Bubonic Plague
March 9, 2025 at 2:46 pm
Donald’s is an easy target who spews BLM rhetoric and tried to make Nuclear Energy part of ESG
James / Broward
March 11, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Trump has endorsed Byron. Thats enough for me.
Lets give Byron a shot to fix the insurance crisis Desantis cannot get ahold of
Hung Wiil
March 11, 2025 at 2:31 pm
Whaaa. Byron Donalds will be the 47th Governor of the state of Florida. Suck on that, oceanboy.
Michael K
March 9, 2025 at 2:29 pm
I’m sure that Donald’s will do exactly what the convicted felon tells him to do.
Bubonic Plague
March 9, 2025 at 2:34 pm
Larry Wilcox son, yep
Bubonic Plague
March 9, 2025 at 2:33 pm
Oh we have the truth from the dirt
1) It was not theft it was Bank Fraud which you tried you hide multiple times
2) You were a registered Democrat in Collier County until 2010, when you snuck in with the tea party
3) You still believe George Floyd was murdered
4) You cheated on your first wife and impregnated your mistress, you decided to divorce her and a month later marry your current wife who was 4 months pregnant
5) You hung around a carbon tax group called RepublicanEN
6) You wrote 2 soft on crime bills in as a Florida congressman, one of those bills would have made California blush
7) Your Congressional intern is a reparations republican
8) You have 640k missing campaign contributions
9) You have 1.6 million missing stock transactions
10) You tried to stop/delay the criminal investigation into FTX and Sam Brinkman because you had financial interest tied into Robinhood
I have 20 more bullet points that will expose you and Floridians will label as Bank Fraud Byron
MH/Duuuval
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 pm
Interesting, if true. An example of how the firehose tactic of Putin’s Poodle could belay the other side of the aisle.
Hung Wiil
March 11, 2025 at 2:35 pm
You’ll be as successful as Republicans for Harris. Keep crying; it’s a good fit for you.
James / Broward
March 11, 2025 at 12:25 pm
DeSantis should focus on lowering insurance premiums and property taxes instead of forcing his wife onto us so his name can stay relevant so he can for President in 2028. At some point his ambitions became more important than actually serving the people’s best interests. Also, he does not have the charisma to be President. JD Vance is next up. How about this, Do your job Ron, your state has become unaffordable. Lets give Byron a chance
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