Donald Trump’s Allies Are Angry Now Ron DeSantis Hasn’t Announced He’s Running for President

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Donald Trump has spent months attacking Ron DeSantis with everything he has, which up to this point has mostly been in the form of dopey nicknames that he himself, doesn’t always seem to understand. Now, the president’s former allies are taking that fight to another level, accusing the Florida governor of running a shadow presidential campaign that violates state law. Governor DeSantiss’ failure to declare his candidacy is not mere oversight, Make America Great Again Inc. said. PAC in a filing Wednesday with the Florida Commission on Ethics, requesting an investigation into Trump’s top rival. It was a coordinated effort specifically designed for him to accept, as unethical gifts, illegal campaign contributions and certain personal benefits that were supposed to influence his official decision to resign from office. under Florida’s resignation to operate law.

Governor DeSantiss’s sleight of hand has put him irreparably at odds and left the statehouse vacant, the complaint continued.

Technically, DeSantis could face impeachment and even disqualification from the ballot if the allegations in the complaint are found to be true, according to NBC News, which first reported the complaint. But the possibility of a serious investigation of DeSantis is gradually disappearing, considering the commission with chairGlenton Gilzean, where the complaint was dealt with is mostly made up of DeSantis’ appointees, and NBC News’ Matt Dixon said that the Florida Republicans would sooner change the ethics laws than hold the governor responsible for running them.

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It is inappropriate to use state ethics for partisan purposes, Taryn Fenske, DeSantiss communications director, told NBC News, describing the complaint as frivolous and politically motivated.

It’s unlikely any legal consequences will emerge from the complaint and, as the New York Times’ Michael C. Benderpointed on Wednesday, the complaint against DeSantis mirrors a liberal PAC filed against Trump last year, before he formally who announced his re-election bid. But Trump has already shown he’s willing to call the proverbial kettle black, and one imagines the ethics complaint could be another line of attack for the former president, who enjoyed a lead in early polls among voters of GOP, despite the rise of DeSantiss as a national figure.

That advantage may not hold: Trump was politically damaged in the November midterms, is less of a legal risk on many fronts, and some in the party’s brass are preparing for a new leader. Meanwhile, DeSantis has turned once-purple Florida into his personal right-wing playground. But the GOP remains Trumps party, and DeSantis remains an awkward oddball who eats pudding with his hands, as the Daily Beast reported Thursday. Trump and his allies seek not only to highlight that personality factor, that is, the Florida governors total lack of beauty. They are trying, as my colleague Bess Levinnoted, to paint him as an interloper, of sorts, who doesn’t really belong in the MAGA movement and can’t be trusted. Just because he’s aggressive and willing to fight doesn’t make him a MAGA, Bryan Lanza, who worked on Trumps 2016 campaign, told Politico Wednesday. As more is highlighted, DeSantis will be more exposed as just another member of the establishment and compared to Jeb Bush.

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