Donald Trump on Saturday returned to a familiar victim for his attacks, and some are struggling to understand exactly why.
Trump bragged at his event that he hit Ron DeSantis low and high and to the side, and that he ultimately conquered the Florida governor, despite DeSantis having already endorsed Trump. The former president even compared his attacks on DeSantis to the attacks his administration leveled against ISIS.
“I hit him hard, I hit him low, just like we did to ISIS…We hit this guy so hard," the ex-president said. "He’s a shell of the man…We have to hit our enemies hard.”
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MeidasTouch made the potential connection Saturday:
"Trump began attacking DeSantis again right after DeSantis signed legislation to allow the release of grand jury documents in the Epstein case," the outlet wrote.
Conservative Army Iraq War Veteran Peter Henlein, who floated a similar theory in the past, also joined the chorus after Trump's Saturday DeSantis attacks.
"If you had any doubt that the release of the Florida Epstein grand jury files is going to destroy Trump, remove that doubt. Trump and his political operation are suddenly spending an equal amount of effort attacking DeSantis as they are Biden.....which makes no sense," Henlein wrote Saturday. "They aren't attacking Haley at all, who refused to endorse Trump and stayed in the race much longer than DeSantis, but they are passionately attacking DeSantis, who dropped out after Iowa and endorsed Trump......which makes no sense."
"The ONLY possible explanation," according to the political onlooker, "is that Trump knows the release of Florida Epstein grand jury, which DeSantis paved the way for, is going to be extremely damaging to Trump."
"Trump is angry that this has happened, and he needs to discredit everything about DeSantis to try and blunt the impact of those files," according to Henlein.
