U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland denied any wrongdoing in how he runs the Department of Justice after facing widespread accusations of political bias.
Garland made the remarks during an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; with co-host Scott Pelley.
&#8220;We do not have one rule for Republicans and another rule for Democrats,&#8221; Garland said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have one rule for foes and another for friends. We don&#8217;t have one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless, for the rich or for the poor, based on ethnicity. We have only one rule; and that one rule is that we follow the facts and the law, and we reach the decisions required by the Constitution, and we protect civil liberties.&#8221;
Garland said that he could not speak about the two federal criminal cases against former President Donald Trump because it was an ongoing case and that Department&#8217;s policy is that he cannot comment about it.
&#8220;One reason is to protect the privacy and the civil liberties of the person who&#8217;s under investigation,&#8221; Garland said in explaining why the rule exists for all investigations. &#8220;It&#8217;s to protect witnesses who also may or may not become public later in an investigation. And then finally, it&#8217;s to protect the investigation itself. Investigations proceed in many different directions, eventually coming to a fruition, a decision to charge or not charge about a particular thing or not. And if witnesses and potential subjects knew everything that the investigators had previously looked at and were about to look at, it could well change testimony. It could well make witnesses unavailable to us.&#8221;
Garland addressed critics who say that he timed the prosecutions to hurt Trump in the 2024 election.
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s absolutely not true,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Justice Department prosecutors are nonpartisan. They don&#8217;t allow partisan considerations to play any role in their determinations.&#8221;
Garland said that he is not in communication with President Joe Biden or anyone else in the administration in regards to the cases against Trump.
Pelley then asked Garland what he would do if Biden asked him to take action in the cases involving Trump.
&#8220;I am sure that that will not happen, but I would not do anything in that regard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And if necessary, I would resign. But there is no sense that anything like that will happen.&#8221;
The segment noted that Biden himself is also under criminal investigation by a special counsel over his own handling of classified materials.
Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, was recently indicted on federal gun charges in a separate special counsel investigation and remains under investigation over other business matters.
Garland said that he will make the results of the special counsel&#8217;s report public &#8220;to the extent permissible under the law, that is required to explain their prosecutive decisions, their decisions to prosecute or not prosecute and their strategic decisions along the way.&#8221;
&#8220;Usually, the special counsels have testified at the end of their reports, and I expect that that will be the case here,&#8221; he added.
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Merrick Garland Claims DOJ Does ‘Not Have One Rule For Republicans And Another Rule For Democrats’

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Stephen Miller, a former senior advisor to former President Donald Trump, urged Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to not go forward with his stated plan to file a motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week.
Miller made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; with Maria Bartiromo as Gaetz appeared on Sunday morning shows announcing his intentions to oust McCarthy — which many Republicans say is about a personal issue that Gaetz has toward McCarthy.
McCarthy had put forth a continuing resolution last week to keep the government open that included spending cuts and funding border security but Gaetz and a few other Republicans rejected it.
&#8220;I think, at this point in time, it&#8217;s very clear that Kevin is not going to be going anywhere,&#8221; Miller told Bartiromo. &#8220;He has the support of 218 members.&#8221;
&#8220;And I understand, and I need to help everybody rise above,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;I understand all the emotions that are playing out right now. But, for the love of God, we are losing this country, and we are losing it fast. Republicans need to unify around the twin mission of stopping the open border invasion and stopping a government that has been weaponized against conservatives and Christians and anyone who does not subscribe to the tenets of the radical left.&#8221;
&#8220;And that means we need to get moderates on board and conservatives on board, and even means that people are going to have to make compromises on spending levels to pass these bills,&#8221; Miller continued. &#8220;That means you&#8217;re going to have to agree to spending levels you might not like, but to get the policy that you want. And then you need to get Senate Republicans, as I said, in the game, Maria.&#8221;
&#8220;We need 40 Republicans to stand up and say no to open borders, no to weaponized government,&#8221; he concluded.&#8221;Put the pressure on the Democrats who are in cycle. Put pressure with them and their voters. Make them understand that they will lose their seats if they don&#8217;t get on board.&#8221;
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Stephen Miller Urges Ending Effort To Oust McCarthy: ‘For The Love Of God, We Are Losing This Country’

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-manchin">Joe Manchin</a> (D-WV) said over the weekend that he will make a decision about whether he is going to launch a third party run for president within the next three months.
Speaking to Shannon Bream on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; Manchin asked: &#8220;Why not have options? People aren&#8217;t satisfied right now.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of people like you as an option. And you&#8217;ve said, once you make a decision, a target will be on your back,&#8221; Bream said. &#8220;So you&#8217;re waiting till the right time. But the fact is, the calendar is now going to start working against you. What is the timeline? Do you have any announcements to make this morning?&#8221;
&#8220;Not this morning. Let me just say this. I&#8217;ll do it,&#8221; he responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m more concerned about the country right now. What you&#8217;ve seen the theatrics have played out yesterday. And up until yesterday. It&#8217;s ridiculous.&#8221;
Manchin said that the U.S. needs a leader that can work with the center Left and the center Right and not be beholden to the extremes on either side.
&#8220;You have to work together. Kevin McCarthy, I praise Kevin McCarthy for what he did yesterday, he finally realized you can&#8217;t reason with unreasonable people, with the extremes,&#8221; Manchin said. &#8220;I hope that people, these people are represented. I hope their constituents finally say enough is enough. We want people that at least keep our government running and moving in the right direction. We can do that. And I think yes, I can bring it together. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve ever done.&#8221;
Manchin said that if former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden do not start coming back toward the center then &#8220;we&#8217;re going to bring it back.&#8221;
When pressed again about what his time was, Manchin responded: &#8220;Well, I said before the end of the year, I will. We&#8217;re still planning. I mean, if something what you&#8217;re saying would happen, there is no primaries, you just go right into the foray.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a> Governor Ron DeSantis warned in an interview over the weekend that the push from Democratic politicians to make everyone have an electric vehicle presents serious risks to U.S. national security and the economy.
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; when asked about President Joe Biden joining the picket line with striking auto workers.
&#8220;They are going to really hurt the whole automobile industry. It is going to hurt jobs, forcing EVs,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;A lot of people don’t want EVs, a lot of Americans can’t afford EVs. It will make our country more dependent on communist China which we definitely don’t need to be doing.&#8221;
&#8220;What they’re doing in California, Newsom and Biden have partnered up, they are requiring these big rigs to be electric,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And so, we’re at the Port of Long Beach, this is very important to be able to move product for the entire country’s economy. These big rigs, they go, like 100 miles on an electric, then they’ve got to do a charge. It is totally, totally ridiculous. So, I’m going to come in as president, we’re going to reverse all of those Biden EV mandates, we’re going to save the American automobile.&#8221;
DeSantis said that forcing big rigs to become electric will &#8220;impact our supply chain&#8221; because they need to be recharged so frequently which will &#8220;hurt inflation, that will hurt our economy.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s putting ideology ahead of anything that’s practical, and I think the truckers were really excited we were there to shine a light on some of the insanity that’s going on out California,&#8221; he added.
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GOP candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be speaking in Long Beach ahead of the California GOP Convention.

DeSantis Highlights Danger Electric Vehicles Present To U.S. National Security And Economy

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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) slammed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-CA) over the weekend for Gaetz&#8217;s &#8220;personal&#8221; vendetta against him, saying that Gaetz was more concerned about getting in front of cameras than securing wins for conservatives.
McCarthy made the remarks in a series of interviews on Sunday after the House managed to pass a stopgap bill to keep the U.S. government running over the next 45 days.
On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan, McCarthy said that he was confident that he will survive Gaetz&#8217;s attempts to oust him as House Speaker.
&#8220;You know, this is personal with Matt,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;Matt voted against the most conservative ability to protect our border, secure our border. He&#8217;s more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something. He wanted to push us into a shutdown, even threatening his own district, with all the military people there who would not be paid, only because he wants to take this motion.&#8221;
&#8220;So be it. Bring it on,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Let&#8217;s get over with it and let&#8217;s start governing. If he&#8217;s upset because he tried to push us in a shutdown, and I made sure government didn&#8217;t shut down, then let&#8217;s have that fight.&#8221;
McCarthy accused Gaetz of &#8220;trying to work with Democrats,&#8221; saying that he has &#8220;reached out to Swalwell, to AOC and others.&#8221;
&#8220;But if that&#8217;s the way we&#8217;re going to govern, I don&#8217;t think America is going to be successful. Look, at the end of the day, think of everything we&#8217;ve been able to accomplish so far. Parents Bill of Rights. We passed the most conservative bill to protect our border, make America energy-independent,&#8221; he concluded on the matter. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been able to cut $2 trillion, and the debt ceiling, get work requirements back in. The hard part we have right now is, the Senate has not passed one appropriation bill. Each body is supposed to pass 12. We&#8217;ve passed more than 70 percent of the discretionary spending already.&#8221;
In a separate <a href="https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1708588638898966758">interview</a> on Fox News, McCarthy added: &#8220;I want to secure the border, he wants to secure interviews.&#8221;
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Congress Races To Avoid Government Shutdown

McCarthy Rips Gaetz Over ‘Personal’ Feud: ‘I Want To Secure The Border, He Wants To Secure Interviews’

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defended Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) during an interview over the weekend after Bowman pulled a fire alarm on Saturday in a congressional office before the House vote on a stopgap bill to keep the government open.
AOC gave the defense of Bowman — who is now under investigation by law enforcement and Congress — during an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; Sunday morning.
&#8220;There was an interesting moment over the weekend when your New York colleague Congressman Jamaal Bowman &#8212; he&#8217;s under investigation for this now after Capitol Police say he pulled a fire alarm in one of the House&#8217;s office buildings,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;Democrats were trying to delay a vote, a final vote on the bill. There he is pulling the fire alarm. He says it was an accident, and he thought pulling the alarm would open a door, based on the fact that the doors to his right there were locked and there was a sign that he said he was &#8212; I think someone said it was confusing.&#8221;
&#8220;I will be honest. That doesn&#8217;t really make sense to me, his explanation,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;Have you talked to him? What&#8217;s going on there?&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, listen, I think if you actually do see some of the photos of the signs, I think there&#8217;s something to be said about, the government&#8217;s about to shut down. There&#8217;s a vote clock that&#8217;s going down. The exits that are normally open in that building were suddenly closed,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed.
&#8220;So, you pull the fire alarm?&#8221; Tapper responded.
&#8220;So, I&#8217;m not &#8212; I&#8217;m &#8212; what I am here to say is that House administration, U.S. Capitol Police, and Jamaal Bowman are in active, and he&#8217;s fully participating in saying there was a misunderstanding,&#8221; she responded. &#8220;But what I do think is important to raise is the fact that Republicans, representatives like Nicole Malliotakis and others, immediately moved to file motions to censure, motions to expel before there has even been conversations that are finished to even see if there was a misunderstanding here.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez went on to claim that Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was “actually found guilty after a thorough investigation of 13 federal charges.” Santos has been indicted but has not been found guilty, as there has been no trial at this point.
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CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper confronted Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) over the weekend about whether his &#8220;personal animus&#8221; against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was behind his drive to oust him from his position.
Gaetz said during interviews on Sunday that he intends to file a motion to remove McCarthy as speaker because he claims that McCarthy — who has had to operate with a razor-thin majority — did not keep his word with some House conservatives.
CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper asked Gaetz on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; what his motivation was for trying to give McCarthy the boot.
&#8220;Last question for you, because the reason you talk about this being about the issue and not animus, because there are a lot of people, a lot of House Republicans who think that there is this personal animus between you and Speaker McCarthy,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;And I just have to ask you, how much do you blame Speaker McCarthy for the fact that you are under investigation by the House Ethics Committee? How much is that part of what&#8217;s going on here?&#8221;
Gaetz responded: &#8220;Not at all.&#8221;
&#8220;Jake, I am the most investigated man in the United States Congress,&#8221; Gaetz continued. &#8220;I have been cleared by the DOJ, the FEC by a 5-0 vote. And the people who spread criminal lies about me are sitting in federal prison right now. So, I&#8217;m fine being investigated by anyone and everyone.&#8221;
Tapper then said he had &#8220;seen personal communications between you and other people in which you blame McCarthy for your ethics investigation.&#8221;
Gaetz responded that he made those remarks after McCarthy publicly stated that he believed Gaetz was seeking to remove him because of the House Ethics investigation.
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&#8220;But here&#8217;s the thing, Jake, I&#8217;m not alone,&#8221; Gaetz said. &#8220;People can say this is a party of one. I have tens of millions of Americans who stand with me on this. And I have a requisite number of House Republicans, a sufficient number, to ensure that we don&#8217;t own Kevin McCarthy anymore.&#8221;
&#8220;By week&#8217;s end, he will either not be speaker or he will be speaker serving at the pleasure of House Democrats,&#8221; he concluded.
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CNN’s Jake Tapper Confronts Matt Gaetz Over His ‘Personal Animus’ Against Speaker Kevin McCarthy

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MSNBC host Alicia Menendez addressed on television Saturday evening the scandal that her father, Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bob-menendez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Menendez</a> (D-NJ), is facing after being indicted earlier this month on federal corruption charges.
The federal indictment against Bob Menendez and his wife was unsealed last week and accused the senator and his wife of accepting bribes from three business people in exchange for actions that he took as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to the DOJ, the bribes — which included hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars, a luxury car, and more — were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
Bob Menendez faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.
Alicia Menendez said on her show, &#8220;American Voices with Alicia Menendez,&#8221; which has been on MSNBC for three years, that she will not be reporting on the case.
&#8220;Hey everyone, I’m Alicia Menendez. Welcome to American Voices,&#8221; she began. &#8220;We have a lot to get to tonight, but I want to begin on a personal note.&#8221;
&#8220;Last week, a grand jury indicted U.S. Senator Bob Menendez,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This past week, dozens of members of his own party have demanded his resignation. I have been watching, along with all of you, as a citizen and also as his daughter. I will not be reporting on the legal case.&#8221;
&#8220;That said, my colleagues across MSNBC and NBC News, they have aggressively covered the story, and they’ll continue to do so, as they should,&#8221; she concluded on the matter.
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MSNBC&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/AliciaMenendez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AliciaMenendez</a> on how she&#39;ll handle the coverage of her father Senator Bob Menendez&#39;s indictment. 
Exactly how it should be handled&#8230;and something that Chris Cuomo should learn from but won&#39;t. 
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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) slammed Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) on Saturday afternoon after Bowman pulled a fire alarm as lawmakers were trying to pass a stopgap bill to avert a U.S. government shutdown.
Bowman pulled the fire alarm in the House Cannon office building as House Democrats were trying to delay a vote on a GOP short-term spending bill, which sparked an evacuation of the building. Bowman, who is a former school principal, claimed: “I thought the alarm would open the door.”
McCarthy addressed the matter at a press conference after the House managed to pass a bill to keep the government open for the next 45 days — which now heads to the Senate.
&#8220;I think [House] Ethics should look at this, but this is serious,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;When you think of how other people are treated, when they wanted to come in and change the course of what was happening in this building.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m going to have a discussion with the Democratic leader about it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But this should not go without punishment. This is an embarrassment. You’re elected to be a member of Congress. You pulled the fire alarm &#8230; hours before the government being shut down, trying to dictate that government would shut down.&#8221;
&#8220;What’s going through a person’s mind like that? But we will find the right ability to deal with this,&#8221; he concluded.
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McCarthy Hammers Bowman For Pulling Fire Alarm: ‘This Should Not Go Without Punishment’

McCarthy Hammers Bowman For Pulling Fire Alarm: 'This Should Not Go Without Punishment'

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Liberal HBO host Bill Maher defended Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> during an interview this week over a &#8220;despicable&#8221; hit piece that The New York Times wrote about how he managed the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
DeSantis appeared on &#8220;Real Time&#8221; with Maher Friday evening where the two talked about DeSantis&#8217; record and his Republican presidential campaign.
&#8220;I&#8217;m fed up with woke, too,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I have trouble with friends in Hollywood. I&#8217;m an old school liberal, and that&#8217;s a whole different thing than woke. And I&#8217;m sympathetic to you because, you know, you very often, like, take on an issue where I feel like, yeah, there is crazy stuff going on in schools. There is crazy stuff.&#8221;
Maher mentioned, though, that the problem is that some people do not understand why it was important to take on Disney or fight wokeness in schools because they don&#8217;t actually see what is going on.
&#8220;This idea of ideology corrupting institutions, I see it in Los Angeles with the amount of crime that&#8217;s here and the homelessness,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;There are people that commit crimes who are not prosecuted like they would be in Florida. Our state&#8217;s crime rate is at a 50-year low. You elect these people like Gascón and what they did in San Francisco. You can break into somebody&#8217;s house or mug somebody, and you don&#8217;t end up going to jail?&#8221;
&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t work, but that&#8217;s driven by ideology,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So it&#8217;s not just we&#8217;re having just a philosophical debate. I think woke ideology has corrupted institutions. I think it&#8217;s corrupted things like the CDC with how they handled COVID with the nonsense that they did. So it&#8217;s a broader issue than just a philosophical fight.&#8221;
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After DeSantis brought up how he fought against heavy-handed government restrictions during COVID, Maher responded, &#8220;You keep wanting to get back to that and I don&#8217;t blame you because you&#8217;re right.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re on the same page there. And I think it&#8217;s unfair what they did to you because you did handle it better,&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;You did handle it better. You were right. You were like, let&#8217;s target the people, protect the people who are most vulnerable, and everybody else can go on with their lives a little better. You opened schools sooner. And a lot of the stuff that&#8217;s come in, the information we have after now we&#8217;ve had a few years to look at it, you were more right, and they won&#8217;t give you credit with it.&#8221;
Maher then specifically highlighted The New York Times&#8217; coverage. &#8220;I saw The New York Times with such a despicable hit piece on you &#8230; I forget what the lead headline was, but it was basically Ron DeSantis f***ed up the pandemic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then like, at the very end, it says Florida&#8217;s death rate, overall, is better than the national average. And if you&#8217;re going to do an article about Florida and the pandemic, shouldn&#8217;t that be the lead? Shouldn&#8217;t that be the headline — I mean, talk about burying the lead.&#8221;
DeSantis said that if he is elected president, he will &#8220;bring accountability&#8221; so that the government overreach that happened during the pandemic &#8220;never happens in our country again.&#8221;
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DeSantis: “If we did so bad, people would have been leaving FL. People are coming, wealth&#39;s moving into the state, our economy&#39;s done better than any other large state, and education &#8212; we&#39;re now ranked, I think, in the top 5 on most metrics in education”<a href="https://t.co/OUxQTRmEIU">pic.twitter.com/OUxQTRmEIU</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1708164141767147555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Bill Maher during an interview this week for bringing up how some members of the Republican Party have claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, saying that many Democrats did the same thing in 2016.
DeSantis made the remarks during an appearance on &#8220;Real Time&#8221; Friday evening to discuss his record as governor and his Republican presidential campaign.
After discussing the recent GOP primary debate and former President Donald Trump, Maher brought up how DeSantis helped campaign for some Republicans who were so-called &#8220;election deniers.&#8221;
&#8220;This I do not forgive,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;I mean, Kari Lake, who said Biden&#8217;s an illegitimate president. Trump didn&#8217;t —&#8221;
DeSantis fired back by noting that Lake has repeatedly attacked him since he announced his presidential campaign, despite praising him in the past, including making <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2023/09/27/kari-lake-roasted-telling-lies-ron-desantis-covid/70977955007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that were false about how he managed the COVID-19 pandemic.
&#8220;Well now she&#8217;s attacking me, so maybe I did make a mistake there because she&#8217;s out there trying to say that we mandated vax in Florida,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;We did the opposite. We protected people, even from private mandates, so that may have been —&#8221;
Maher pressed DeSantis on why he campaigned for Republicans who denied that Trump lost the election, to which DeSantis responded: &#8220;Because I wanted to see Republicans win key races.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s not a deal breaker issue for you?&#8221; Maher asked. &#8220;That&#8217;s not democracy?&#8221;
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&#8220;Okay, well, let&#8217;s go back to 2016,&#8221; DeSantis responded. &#8220;Your friends in Hollywood were cutting ads telling the Electoral College to vote against Trump in the Electoral College because it was stolen. They said Russia stole the election; for years they said that, so don&#8217;t act like this is like a unique thing in modern history of the country.&#8221;
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DeSantis Slams Maher Over Stolen Election Claims: ‘Don’t Act Like This Is A Unique Thing’

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized former President Donald Trump during a post-debate interview this week for continuing to attack him online while skipping the Republican Party presidential primary debates.
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview Thursday with Bill Hemmer on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom.&#8221;
&#8220;He owes it to the voters to defend his record, to defend the decisions he&#8217;s made,&#8221; said DeSantis, arguing that Trump needed to defend why he was running on the same promises now that he did in 2016 &#8220;that he did not actually implement.&#8221;
&#8220;For example, draining the swamp,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t fire Christopher Wray, he didn&#8217;t fire Anthony Fauci. He didn&#8217;t do anything to clean house. Now all of a sudden, he&#8217;s going to slay the administrative state when he gave Fauci an award his last day in office? What about all the spending and debt? They racked up massive amounts of debt, particularly in his last year in office, of course, you&#8217;re going to end up leading to inflation when you do that.&#8221;
&#8220;And I&#8217;d say the final thing, he&#8217;s had a lot to say about me on social media, really since 2022, right before the midterm election, he started attacking me when all Republicans were supposed to be united for a red wave,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;No, he tried to attack me, and he&#8217;s been doing it a lot. You know, it&#8217;s one thing to do it behind a keyboard. Step up on stage, and do it to my face. I&#8217;m ready for it. He used to say I was a great governor. Now all of a sudden, you&#8217;re saying the opposite? Let&#8217;s have that discussion. And I&#8217;ll do it. We could do one on one. I was with Sean last night. Let&#8217;s do that and let&#8217;s give the American people the choice that they deserve.&#8221;
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Trump has had a lot to say about me on social media. It’s one thing to do it behind a keyboard.
Step up on stage and say it to my face. <a href="https://t.co/olp0SyGCaD">pic.twitter.com/olp0SyGCaD</a>
&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1707460216499974303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Trump announced back in August that he would not be participating in any primary debates, citing his lead in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">national polls</a> and voters&#8217; familiarity with his record as president. Following this week&#8217;s debate, his campaign called on the Republican National Committee to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-campaign-calls-on-rnc-to-cancel-all-remaining-primary-debates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancel</a> all its remaining presidential primary debates and throw its support fully behind Trump&#8217;s nomination.
“Tonight’s GOP debate was as boring and inconsequential as the first debate, and nothing that was said will change the dynamics of the primary contest being dominated by President Trump,” <a href="https://twitter.com/LaCivitaC/status/1707226132494557446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita. “The RNC should immediately put an end to any further primary debates so we can train our fire on Crooked Joe Biden and quit wasting time and money that could be going to evicting Biden from the White House.”

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