Ron DeSantis Knocks Fox News For The Way It Covers Trump

LOADING ERROR LOADING Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped Fox News for “never criticizing” Donald Trump just one day after an Iowa voter confronted him for his approach toward the former president. The GOP presidential candidate, in an Iowa campaign stop on Thursday, pointed to the former president’s criticism of a six week abortion ban in Florida and noted that Iowa Gov.

Kim Reynolds has signed the ban into law in the Hawkeye State. Advertisement He went on to question if Trump has flip flopped on abortion given previous remarks and claimed he “disqualified himself” for voters who believe in “the sanctity of life” before adding that people have to hold Trump accountable.

“This idea that like all these conservative radio guys and Fox News people like, they will like never criticize because they’re so concerned that someone may yell at them,” DeSantis said. “Look, anyone running for office answers to you. You have every right to hold these people accountable and you should hold him accountable when he’s taking those positions that are not consistent with the values here in northwest Iowa.” “This idea that all these conservative radio guys and Fox News people, they will never criticize because they’re so concerned that someone might yell at them.” Ron DeSantis calls out “conservative” media for their refusal to criticize Trump.

pic.twitter.com/2G8BO5hTfw — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 4, 2024 Advertisement DeSantis, in an interview with former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch on Thursday, also knocked the conservative network for its counterprogramming with Trump set to air during next week’s GOP primary debate hosted by CNN.

“They’re basically giving him a lifeline and making it easier for him to duck the debate,” said DeSantis, who once criticized Trump from being “ missing in action ” on the debate stage last year. “I think all of us should be held accountable, Dana, I don’t think it’s healthy for the conservative movement to have one candidate that is not subjected to scrutiny.

But that’s kind of what it’s been and I think, quite frankly, Fox News has bailed him out for allowing him not to debate.” "Fox News has bailed him out" Ron DeSantis rightly points out that Fox News is "making it easier" for Trump to "duck" debates with Republican candidates by counterprogramming them with Trump town halls pic.twitter.com/nRxsTvqlbF — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 4, 2024 The comments arrive a day after a man in Iowa confronted DeSantis on why he hasn’t “ gone directly ” after Trump on the campaign trail.

Advertisement The man, who said he voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, declared that DeSantis was “going pretty soft” on the former president. The Florida governor typically steered away from attacking Trump, although, in recent months, he’s occasionally taken jabs at the former president including on Thursday at a CNN town hall .

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