Did former President Donald Trump promote a baseless claim on social media Tuesday that accused Florida Governor Ron DeSantis of grooming underage girls with alcohol?
Trump’s latest comment against the Florida governor, who recently won re-election in Florida with a historic 19.4-point blowout, comes after Trump claimed last week that DeSantis “begged” him for an endorsement in 2018 and that “there were tears coming down from his eyes.”
Trump promoted a post that showed a grainy photograph of someone that is alleged to be DeSantis standing next to several women at a party who appear to be roughly the same age.
“Here is Ron DeSanctimonious grooming high school girls with alcohol as a teacher,” the post claimed.
Trump reposted the picture on his social media channel, writing: “That’s not Ron, is it? He would never do such a thing!”
The New York Times previously reported that the photo was published by a blog run by a Democrat super PAC and that two former female students said parties that DeSantis attended “took place after” they had graduated.
Late last month, Trump, in a series of comments to reporters and in social media posts, claimed credit for DeSantis’ success, called him a “globalist” who would be “very disloyal” to mount a 2024 presidential bid, and sought once again to stick DeSantis with the Trumpian moniker “Ron DeSanctimonius.” But the Sunshine State governor appeared unfazed by the attacks.
Trump has also attacked DeSantis’ response to the coronavirus pandemic despite the fact that most Republicans look at Florida as the model for success for promoting freedom and beating back government control over people’s lives.
“Ron DeSanctimonious” did “FAR WORSE than many other Republican governors, including that he unapologetically shut down Florida,” Trump claimed in one social media post.
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