Former US president Donald Trump has been making rude comments in private about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, according to a new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
In an excerpt from Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, published by The Atlantic on Sunday, Haberman detailed a meeting she had in the summer with Trump at the latter’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
During the meeting, she spoke with Trump about Christie, one of his 2016 election rivals.
“I was compared to him? Why? I didn’t know I had that big of a weight problem,” Trump told Haberman, per her account. He also called Christie an “opportunist”.
Haberman also wrote that she had heard of Trump using similar terms to describe DeSantis. She also recalled learning from sources that Trump had called DeSantis “fat”, “phoney”, and “whiny” while also taking credit for the latter clinching the governor’s seat in 2018.
Per the excerpt, Trump told Haberman that the question he most often received was whether he would be running for president again.
“The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are,” Haberman wrote of Trump’s response.
She added: “Reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he’d accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them”.
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In other DeSantis idiocy:
In search of the person who trafficked the asylum seekers to Massachusetts from Texas using Florida money and a GOP vender for a DeSantis election stunt.
Any information related to the identity of a certain
San Antonio woman is now considered valuable.
On Saturday, officials with the League of United Latin American Citizens offered a $5,000 cash reward for any information leading to the identification of "Perla," who is the woman who reportedly helped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis send 50 Venezuelan migrants from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard last week. Perla allegedly lured those migrants on two Massachusetts-bound flights with false promises, according to previous Express-News reporting.
Like the others behind the restaurant on Sept. 8, he’d been kicked out of a shelter after three days. Immigration officials had warned them they couldn’t work legally yet. No one had any money to get to distant cities where friends or family might help.
That’s when a smiling blond-haired woman in a cowboy hat approached. Her name was Perla, she said. And she could fix all their troubles.
It was a pitch Perla had been making to other newly homeless migrants huddled on San Antonio’s streets. She drove a rented white SUV and promised food, jobs and transportation.
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Press Flak and Florida (wo)man Christina Pushaw is Ron DeSantis’s Goebbels and likely will meet the same fate. Her pathological, reactionary tweeting is symptomatic of the onrushing fascism of the DeathSantis regime, and her stalking seems semi-pro at least.
Pushaw only just resembles the unhinged Kellyanne Conway, but she does have a flair for logical fallacy, like most RWNJs, as though she’s auditioning for a Fox News gig.
Serving as Press Secretary for America’s favorite Governor, Daddy DeSantis, Pushaw has cemented herself as a gay icon overnight and we are here for all of it.
Earlier this week, leftist gays stormed the Florida Capitol building in the Gay Insurrection of 2022. They were protesting the Parental Rights in Education Bill (branded the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by lying Democrats) and demanding kindergartners have access to state-sanctioned lessons on pronoun propaganda and gay butt sex. Christina dropped a bomb that annihilated their entire phony narrative and put them all on defense. She called them what they are: groomers.
HB 1557 has drawn nationwide attention, one of the main ‘culture war’ bills considered this Session.
The Florida Phoenix reached out to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary, Christina Pushaw, about calls from Florida lawmakers for her firing or resignation regarding tweets she made over the weekend on controversial legislation restricting classroom instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity.
She provided her response in an email to the Phoenix Monday afternoon: Pushaw said:
“I don’t regret raising concerns about child safeguarding. The only people who singled out the LGBT community are the opponents of the bill, who have been baselessly accusing us of homophobia — when the bill itself doesn’t single out the LGBT community or even mention the word “gay.” Any type of sexual content, whether it’s straight, LGBT or anything else, is inappropriate for 3- to 9-year-old children — and I can’t believe that is controversial to rational adults.”
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Christina Pushaw Interview from Brendon Leslie on Vimeo.
(August 2021) Christina Pushaw, Governor Ron DeSantis’s bellicose press secretary, took a 12-hour timeout on Friday. The suspension came after Pushaw encouraged his 21,800 followers to harass Associated Press reporter Brendan Farrington, who published a story Tuesday about a major DeSantis donor’s link to a hedge fund that invested in Regeneron, a drug. used to treat COVID-19.
DeSantis, who has urged Floridians to get vaccinated, has been promoting Regeneron statewide as an alternative/supplement to vaccines before the state’s opening sites to administer the drug.
While the headline to Farrington’s story drew attention to the donor’s investment in Regeneron, the story details how the hedge fund invested more in vaccine manufacturers but notes that “the relationship (with Regeneron) has created a stir on social media, as Democrats question the relationship. ”
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(2021) Press secretary Christina Pushaw was accused of criminally violating a Maryland court order to cease contact with former Florida Department of Health geographer, Jones who accused her of cyberstalking activities and impersonating a federal employee.
In response to repeated requests for comment, Pushaw lied and prevaricated to avoid admitting that at one point, she may have faced serious criminal proceedings with a maximum penalty of 90-days in jail and a $1000 fine for the first offense.
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In April, Rebekah Jones published a detailed, 80-page court submission about Pushaw’s stalking activities onto her blog. It alleged 62 unwanted contacts in the two days after her initial restraining order was issued on April 7th by a Maryland court and extended two days later.
Christina Pushaw is clearly upset by the facts of the case and often tweets vehement denials that she is facing a criminal charge. Often, she points to the court’s denial of Jones’ request for a permanent order against her on April 30th, as if that somehow canceled the criminal proceeding against her.
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