News reports intensified that President Biden and his coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci are threatening action to restrict the travel of Floridians unless the state abides more closely to the White House’s COVID demands.
Under Governor Ron DeSantis, the state has been among the most successful U.S. examples of dealing with COVID-19 while keeping the economy open and not imposing strict lockdown rules.
DeSantis posted an 11 February news conference about Washington’s restrictions on Twitter and said, “The recent report that the Biden administration is considering restricting the travel of Floridians is completely absurd, especially when Biden allows illegal aliens to pour across our southern border. We won’t allow Floridians to be unfairly targeted for political purposes.”
In a reported telephone conversation last week with President Biden and Dr. Fauci, the discussion turned into an argument when, according to a Real Raw News story, Biden said DeSantis left Florida’s economy open during “the dark days of COVID.”
President Biden claimed he had unilateral and constitutional authority to protect the nation’s health from “rogue politicians” acting in contravention of established health guidelines.
DeSantis replied, “I will not comply,” and said Biden was targeting Republican states that supported Donald Trump. “Florida absolutely will not comply,” DeSantis repeated. “Instituting a travel ban or restriction of movement would be a gross example of federal overreach with no grounding in law or science. We have Covid-19 in check, and you’re trying to exert unlawful authority over our state and its people.”
Biden then reportedly threatened to withhold federal funding and deny Florida access to the COVID vaccinations. DeSantis asked, “How much do you stand to earn from these vaccines, Dr. Fauci?”
He told the President and his COVID advisor that their attacks were a gross example of federal overreach “with no grounding in law or science. We have Covid-19 in check, and you’re trying to exert unlawful authority over our state and its people… And, Joe, if you continue with this course of action, I will authorize the state National Guard to protect the movement of Floridians.”
Biden responded by saying, “Address me as Mr. President or President Biden.”
DeSantis bluntly replied, “I will not, and you can go f**k yourself.” DeSantis then hung up.
TREND FORECAST: We note this occurrence to reiterate our forecast for a strong anti-establishment movement that will spread across America – and many nations – as people fed up with the system will do, as did DeSantis, by telling politicians to go “f**k themselves.”
Considering there are no strong Republican challengers to the Democratic Party, DeSantis has a clear shot of being a 2024 Presidential contender.
TRENDPOST: Did DeSantis really tell Biden to “Go f**k yourself” at the end of a heated phone call over Biden’s threat of travel restrictions? The outlet Real Raw News says it happened, and they’re standing by their story, despite debunking by the repeatedly unreliable, left-leaning Snopes website.
Snopes admitted that DeSantis was reported by other media including McLatchy as “blasting or attacking the Biden administration in response to the news.”
TRENDPOST: As we have noted, Florida, with a population of 21.5 million, has continually reported fewer COVID deaths than New York State, with a population of 19.4 million. To date, some 29,000 have died from the virus in wide-open Florida compared to 46,000 in New York state, yet the U.S. media and the Democratic Party continually praise New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as a true hero in fighting the COVID War.
