Is Ron DeSantis really better than Trump?

Created
Fri, 26/05/2023 - 05:00
Updated
Fri, 26/05/2023 - 05:00
He’s just a more boring version of exactly the same thing Everyone says, “oh, at least he won’t try to overthrow the government.” Do we know that? Take a look at this: During an interview on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, DeSantis was asked if he would consider pardons for Trump and other Jan. 6 defendants “What I’m going to do is I’m going to do on day one, I will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting, and we will be aggressive at issuing pardons,” DeSantis promised. “Now some of these cases, some people may have a technical violation of the law, but if there are three other people who did the same thing, but just in a context like BLM and they don’t get prosecuted at all, that is uneven application of justice.” “We’re going to find examples where we have governments [have] been weaponized against disfavored groups, and we will apply relief as appropriate,” he added. Sexton pressed the candidate about a pardon for Trump. “And that could be from a grandma who got arrested and prosecuted too much all the way up to potentially Trump himself?” he wondered. “I would say any example of disfavored treatment based on politics or weaponization would be included in that review, no matter how small or how big,” DeSantis confirmed. That’s just a fancy way of saying yes, he will pardon Republicans and instruct his…