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Whereas prosecutors look like closing in on Donald Trump and getting ready to file formal expenses, he’s been posting up an absolute storm on Fact Social.
Each day Beast politics reporter Ursula Perano joins this week’s Fever Desires podcast as a visitor host to speak about why Donald Trump deleted a submit questioning the sexuality of his presumptive main opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, solely to comply with that up with one other screed (and accompanying photograph) dredging up years-old rumors that the Florida governor behaved inappropriately whereas partying with highschool college students throughout his time as a trainer.
“That is changing into most likely probably the most standout a part of his early marketing campaign messaging for 2024,” Perano instructed co-host Kelly Weill. “I believe that that is what Trump does, and that is what labored for him in 2016… actually bringing down his main opponents.”
It’s all occurring amid the backdrop of a possible arrest for the previous president—which some pundits predict will bolster his re-election marketing campaign. The Fever Desires group isn’t so positive.
“I'm inclined to suppose that that’s type of a cope [something you say to make yourself feel better], proper?” Weill mentioned. “That’s type of overthinking it. I imply, do you suppose that folks will rally towards Trump if he's arrested? To my thoughts, it looks as if it’s fairly apparent that arrested equals unhealthy.”
Plus! Each day Beast reporter Jake Lahut joins this system to speak about his current reporting on what seems to be DeSantis’ fledgling marketing campaign—together with a lot of troubling anecdotes in regards to the Florida governor’s skill to make small speak and press the flesh at his early stops in Iowa and elsewhere.
“He’s not like Trump, the place all these voters really feel like they know who he's from years on TV and being of their residing rooms,” Lahut mentioned. “He nonetheless has to do numerous the traditional introductory stuff in these early states … I believe that there’s numerous concern that he’s nonetheless untested popping out of Tallahassee and when he lastly will get into the deep finish right here, nobody actually is aware of how nicely he may have the ability to deal with these unscripted interactions.”
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