Fri Feb 10, 2023 – 2:16 pm EST
OCALA, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis brushed off a fresh wave of unprovoked attacks Wednesday from Donald Trump, declaring he will not “smear other Republicans” in a thinly-veiled contrast to the former president and 2024 hopeful.
On Wednesday, Trump shared a fresh batch of posts from supporters on his social network Truth Social, including one that accused DeSantis of “grooming high school girls with alcohol as a teenager,” with a blurry photo of a young man resembling DeSantis standing with three young women whose faces are pixelated.
The photo comes from an October 2021 article on HillReporter.com, the “news” arm of the pro-Democrat super PAC MeidasTouch. The story alleged that in 2001, as a 23-year-old high-school teacher, DeSantis attended parties with students. A year later, ahead of DeSantis’s landslide reelection to a second term, the New York Times identified the man in the photo as the governor, and reported that “several students recalled that Mr. DeSantis was a frequent presence at parties with the seniors who lived in town,” but also that the parties occurred after graduation. Neither article alleges sexual conduct of any kind,
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