Fri Sep 8, 2023 – 4:38 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Former Trump administration Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, and supporter of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign Ric Grenell accused the former president’s chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, of running a “homophobic” campaign this week.
Grenell appeared on Megyn Kelly’s podcast Thursday, where his raised a video that DeSantis’s campaign shared on X/Twitter in June (since deleted by its original uploader), which contrasted Trump’s past embraces of LGBT flags and merchandise with DeSantis’s conservative stances. The Trump campaign panned the move as “desperate” at the time, while DeSantis called it “totally fair game” to “identif[y] Donald Trump as really being a pioneer in injecting gender ideology into the mainstream.”
“I’ve worked way too hard in my career to allow a presidential candidate to dial us back like that. I believe that Ron DeSantis ruined his chances for 2028,” Grenell, who called the video “insanely homophobic” at the time, reiterated to Kelly this week.
“Nobody wants to see a homophobic take over the Republican Party again. And I know I’m gonna get attacked for this, but the reality is,
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