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Trump vs. DeSantis is Already Getting Petty.
And DeSantis hasn’t even entered the race yet.
So here we are, about to go through another election cycle involving Donald Trump and of course, leave it to him to add a little spice before anything has even started yet. As much as I hate to admit it, I do find his affinity for utterly humiliating his fellow Republican lawmakers pretty amusing and this time, Ron DeSantis is once again the target.
Matt Dixon with NBC News writes:
“…Make America Great Again Inc. is filing a 15-page complaint Wednesday with the Florida Commission on Ethics, a draft of which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.
It asks the commission to probe whether pro-DeSantis super PACs, his “personally lucrative book tour” and a continued wave of state-level campaign contributions, among other things, “are unlawful because they serve his personal political objectives, are in furtherance of his personal financial gain at the expense of Florida taxpayers, and are intended to influence his official decision to resign from office.”
Since Trump announced in November that he is again running for president, he has grown more publicly hostile toward DeSantis, a former political protégé now expected to be his chief rival in the Republican primaries. That includes branding…
