DeSantis-Trump Feud Grows As Friends Join The Fight

Written By BlabberBuzz | Wednesday, 19 January 2022 12:00 PM
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Longtime Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an Ivy League "fat boy," in the latest indication of a split between DeSantis and Trump.

Stone has known Trump for decades and advised him informally throughout the 2016 campaign and received a presidential pardon after a long legal saga amid the Russia investigation. Stone tore into DeSantis after a report the former President considers the potential rival "dull."

"Trump sometimes President Donald Trump hits it right on the nose. Ron DeSantis Yale Harvard fat boy can't get out of his own way," he announced.

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"Not smart. Not honest and not going to be president," Stone wrote on social media.

He described DeSantis, 43, as: "An unknown congressman with a bad haircut and an ill-fitting suit until Donald Trump made him governor" – leaving out his latest job title: governor of the state, with a population of over 20 million, where both Stone and Trump reside.

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Without explanation, he wrote: "I know where he was when he was missing," about a period when DeSantis was absent from public events, feeding online speculation regarding his whereabouts. DeSantis' office says he was helping his wife, Casey, with her cancer treatments.

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Stone tweeted an expletive regarding DeSantis and linked it to an Axios story about the claimed Trump-DeSantis rift.

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The attack came days after Trump addressed a rally in Arizona and stoked conspiracy theories about Jan. 6th – as he positions for a possible run to reclaim the White House in 2024.

DeSantis attended Yale undergrad and earned his law degree from Harvard. Trump himself touted his link to the Ivy League, saying he repeatedly attended the Wharton School of Finance, part of the University of Pennsylvania.

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DeSantis is a prominent Republican who has declined to reveal he would yield to Trump if he chooses to run.

Trump is said to have branded DeSantis a "dull" charisma free-zone as rumors swirl the former President is angry the popular Florida governor hasn't said that he won't challenge Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

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Sources close to the former President who recently talked to him about DeSantis explained that Trump has grown increasingly irritated by DeSantis in recent months, with Trump starting to voice his frustrations to those in his inner circle.

"In the context of the 2024 election, he usually gives DeSantis a pop in the nose in the middle of that type of conversation," announced a source who recently spoke to Trump about DeSantis.

"He says DeSantis has no personal charisma and has a dull personality," the source told Axios.

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