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Donald Trump was confronted by a Ron DeSantis voter during a Fox News town hall event this week.
Jan. 11 2024, Published 8:00 a.m. ET
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A DeSantis voter named Jane asked Trump why he has “publicly criticized and personally demeaned so many of” the people who worked for him in the past.
MacCallum fielded a question from a DeSantis voter named Jane who asked Trump point-blank why he has “publicly criticized and personally demeaned so many of” the people who worked for him in the past.
“I will be caucusing for DeSantis,” Jane acknowledged. “But I will say, Mr. President, I am extremely grateful that in your first term, you accomplished great things. But it was also with the help of many great people.”
“Since that time, you have publicly criticized and personally demeaned so many of them,” the DeSantis voter continued. “If you’re given four more years, how will you convince good people to take the risk of working with you?”
Trump responded and claimed that he would have “no problem” finding “great people” to work with if elected back to the White House in November.
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“He would be working in a pizza shop or perhaps a law firm if I didn’t endorse him.”
“So, I have a lot of people that want to work with me,” Trump replied. “Everybody wants to come to work with us. We’re going to have no trouble.”
“We had great people,” he continued. “We had a couple that were not great. Stiffs, I would call them. But that’s true with anybody. But now I’ve gotten to know Washington. I’ve gotten to know the people. I know the best. I know the smart ones, the dumb ones, the weak ones, the strong ones.”
The embattled ex-president then targeted the Florida governor. Trump said that DeSantis was “not loyal” and that DeSantis would be “working in a pizza shop or perhaps a law firm” if Trump did not endorse the Florida lawmaker for governor in 2018.
“You like Ron DeSantis,” Trump started. “He would be working in a pizza shop or perhaps a law firm if I didn’t endorse him.”
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“That’s not a loyal person,” Trump also said of DeSantis. “We can’t have that.”
“You know, I endorsed him, took him from nothing to winning an election,” the former president continued. “And I was all for him. And then one day he said he’d run against me four years later after I got him in.”
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DeSantis and Nikki Haley battled it out on the stage of the fifth GOP primary debate in Des Moines on Wednesday night.
But while Trump was participating in the Fox News town hall event in Des Moines on Wednesday night, DeSantis and GOP primary candidate Nikki Haley were battling it out on the stage of the fifth GOP primary debate.
That debate, which was hosted by CNN, also happened to be held in Des Moines on Wednesday night.
