Tue Jan 31, 2023 – 2:40 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Former President Donald Trump launched a wave of new attacks on his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination over the weekend, attempting to undermine Florida’s Ron DeSantis on COVID-19, the issue that launched the popular governor to national stardom.
CNN reports that on Saturday, Trump told reporters aboard his plane that while there were “Republican governors that did not close their states” during the pandemic, “Florida was closed for a long period of time” and now DeSantis’s camp is “trying to rewrite history.” He claimed that DeSantis has “changed his tune a lot” on COVID, from lockdowns to vaccines.
That same day, during a campaign rally in South Carolina, Trump claimed that “Ron would have not been governor if it wasn’t for me. So when I hear he might run, I consider that very disloyal.” Notably, Trump had a different reaction to the possibility of his former United Nations ambassador, Nikki Haley, entering the primary: “go by your heart if you want to run.”
He followed up with a pair of posts Sunday on his social network Truth Social, the first of which claimed that
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