Trump put out a statement yesterday saying “Ron DeSantis Voted For The Exact DACA Bill Over Which He Is Now Attacking President Trump.” Liz Harrington tweeted it out making this very claim in her tweet:
Ron DeSantis Voted For The Exact DACA Bill Over Which He Is Now Attacking President Trump pic.twitter.com/r6CFdjQjjl
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) May 26, 2023
But this isn’t true at all. In fact Chip Roy called it ‘demonstrably false’:
This is demonstrably false. I will have more to say about this later – but suffice it to say, the border/immigration legislation failure of 2018 was decidedly reflective of the Trump admin siding with Paul Ryan and GOP squishes while @RonDeSantis sided with conservatives. Fact. https://t.co/PLzAqikSEJ
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) May 26, 2023
The DeSantis super PAC folks pointed out that the bills were not identical. In fact the one bill Trump was supporting included amnesty for illegals and that was the one DeSantis opposed. The one DeSantis supported got rid of the amnesty:
Here’s a clip of DeSantis responding to these attacks, pointing out that the bill was granting amnesty to 2 million illegals and did not contain much in the way of border security. DeSantis argues that Trump is now attacking him for taking the America First position:
DESANTIS on Trump attacking him for fighting Disney and voting against amnesty:
“He’s attacking me from the left. That really wasn’t the Donald Trump from 2015 and 2016.” pic.twitter.com/IBhMFwsPPa
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) May 26, 2023