DeSantis doubles down amid criticism over Trump-LGBTQ video Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) doubled down on the video his campaign shared last week that attacked former President Trump over his past remarks in support of the LGBTQ community.
“I think, you know, identifying Donald Trump as really being a pioneer in injecting gender ideology into the mainstream, where he was having men compete against women in his beauty pageants, I think that’s totally fair game because he’s now campaigning saying the opposite, that he doesn’t think that you should have men competing in women’s things like athletics,” DeSantis said on OutKick’s “Tomi Lahren is Fearless” show on Wednesday.
DeSantis’s campaign retweeted a video last week that featured a clip from the 2016 Republican National Convention in which Trump vowed to do “everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.” It also highlights Trump’s opposition during the 2016 campaign to legislation that would bar transgender individuals from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity.............
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4082700-desantis-doubles-down-amid-criticism-over-trump-lgbtq-video/
