Post by 🦍MAXX＞ⓤ on Nov 9, 2022 14:39:21 GMT -5
Trump Threatens to Reveal Unflattering Information About DeSantis if He Runs
Several hours before polls opened Tuesday for Election Day in Florida, former President Donald Trump warned the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, against mounting a challenge to Trump’s own anticipated presidential candidacy in the 2024 election cycle.
“If he runs, he runs,” Trump said of DeSantis to a handful of reporters traveling with him on his private plane — recently refurbished and put back into use — after a rally Monday night in Dayton, Ohio.
But Trump added, in remarks published Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal,“If he did run, I will tell you things about him that won’t be very flattering. I know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign.”
The former president, preparing to announce a rare candidacy for the White House after a defeat, was thus openly threatening to smear the person who would be considered his leading rival, should he choose to run.
Trump, who for decades threatened business rivals and partners, reporters and critics alike with lawsuits or the possibility of being humiliated, has taken slash-and-burn politics to new heights.
He encouraged his supporters to disseminate dirt about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, brought women who had accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct to his debate against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016, and tweeted a vague threat about Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife in the Republican presidential primary that year.
But now, advisers say, Trump is quicker to anger and frequently in a state of near-rage about not being president anymore.
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-reveal-unflattering-information-131334840.html
Several hours before polls opened Tuesday for Election Day in Florida, former President Donald Trump warned the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, against mounting a challenge to Trump’s own anticipated presidential candidacy in the 2024 election cycle.
“If he runs, he runs,” Trump said of DeSantis to a handful of reporters traveling with him on his private plane — recently refurbished and put back into use — after a rally Monday night in Dayton, Ohio.
But Trump added, in remarks published Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal,“If he did run, I will tell you things about him that won’t be very flattering. I know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign.”
The former president, preparing to announce a rare candidacy for the White House after a defeat, was thus openly threatening to smear the person who would be considered his leading rival, should he choose to run.
Trump, who for decades threatened business rivals and partners, reporters and critics alike with lawsuits or the possibility of being humiliated, has taken slash-and-burn politics to new heights.
He encouraged his supporters to disseminate dirt about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, brought women who had accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct to his debate against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016, and tweeted a vague threat about Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife in the Republican presidential primary that year.
But now, advisers say, Trump is quicker to anger and frequently in a state of near-rage about not being president anymore.
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-reveal-unflattering-information-131334840.html
