‘He Threw Him Under The Bus!’ Ron DeSantis Mocks Vivek Ramaswamy After Trump Attacks
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared happy after former President Donald Trump attacked GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for the first time days before Iowa Caucus.
Ramaswamy, who has positioned himself as a supporter of Trump despite running for the Republican nomination, faced attacks by Trump for the time on Saturday night. The former president took to Truth Social where he criticized Ramaswamy for using “deceitful campaign tricks.”
Multiple times throughout the campaign trail, Ramaswamy as deferred any attacks on Trump and has vowed to pardon him if elected to the presidency. DeSantis appeared delighted by the news of Trump’s newfound anger towards Ramaswamy during a campaign stop on Sunday.
“Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, ‘the best President in generations,’ etc. Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks,” Trump wrote to his followers.
Speaking alongside Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Chip Roy (R-TX) in Iowa, the Florida governor appeared to forget Ramaswamy’s name while discussing Trump’s latest attack.
“You know I noticed that they, that they threw, um, um, um,” DeSantis told the press as he struggled to recall Vivek’s name until Massie reminded him. “Vivek! Yeah. Yeah. Threw him under the bus.”
DeSantis than mocked Ramaswamy by claiming he’s never seen anyone run for president while campaigning for another candidate to win.
.@RonDeSantis says he noticed that Trump threw @VivekGRamaswamy “under the bus.”
“The minute he wasn’t useful, you know, they dropped the hammer on it. So that’s just kind of the way they are.” pic.twitter.com/VcTxThPCsH
— Kit Maher (@KitMaherCNN) January 14, 2024
“I’ve never seen a candidate run for an office and basically campaign for another candidate in the same race before, and that’s what’s happening. But the minute he wasn’t useful, you know, they dropped the hammer on it. So that’s just kind of the way, way they are,” DeSantis said of Trump.
He added, “But look, we are going to go forward as a party. We can go forward in a way that’s focused on people’s issues. That’s focused on a great agenda for America. Or we can go forward, with Trump, which will be focused the 2024 election on legal issues, on criminal trials, on convictions, on on all these things with January 6th. And that gives the Democrats a huge advantage going forward. And I don’t think that we want to do that.
