Ron DeSantis announced his plans to go on a book tour and do media appearances and live book signings throughout the state of Florida. However, a pro-Trump rally in support of President Donald Trump turned violent and resulted in the police being called in to escort people out of the event.
00:00:04.000I'm Laura Loomer, and today we're going to be talking about Ron DeSantis' disaster book tour.
00:00:10.000Yesterday, Ron DeSantis announced his new book, The Courage to be Free, and he decided that he was going to go on a series of media appearances and even live book signings throughout the state of Florida.
00:00:22.000Well, you know that I live in Florida.
00:00:24.000And yesterday I decided to organize a pro-Trump 2024 rally in front of the Leesburg Mall Books A Million store where Ron DeSantis was scheduled to be signing copies of his book.
00:00:38.000Well, the worst kept secret in the state of Florida is the fact that Ron DeSantis is indeed going to be running for president in 2024 by primarying President Donald Trump for the GOP nominee.
00:01:29.000He wants to get all the benefits of being the governor while running for president full time.
00:01:33.000But he needs the legislature to change the law, which is why he's waiting until May, because the Florida legislative session ends in May.
00:01:42.000Obviously, Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.
00:01:46.000He's also the reason why Ron DeSantis is governor of Florida.
00:01:50.000In a sense, Ron DeSantis owes his entire political career to Donald Trump.
00:01:55.000And so myself and some of the villagers for Trump, Trump supporters in the villages where I ran for Congress in 2022, decided that we were going to show support for President Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential campaign by having a pro-Trump rally in front of the bookstore.
00:02:16.000He might want to change the title of his book, The Courage to be Free.
00:02:19.000Because when we arrived on the scene, we were told by a security guard that Ron DeSantis and his staff told him to say that anybody who was pro-Trump or wearing Trump gear had to be escorted off the property and told to leave the book signing.
00:03:01.000That security guard said that we had to leave because the DeSantis people inside sent him outside to tell us that anybody who is for Trump had to leave.
00:03:16.000We're acting like the far left trying to get Trump elected?
00:03:30.000The situation escalated so much that when we decided that we were going to refuse to leave because we have a First Amendment right to peacefully assemble.
00:03:42.000So essentially, you know, there are no DeSantis supporters that aren't Trump supporters because all of DeSantis' supporters became his supporters thanks to Donald Trump.
00:03:52.000However, there are many Trump supporters that are not DeSantis supporters.
00:03:56.000So in a way, the only thing that Ron DeSantis ended up doing by calling the police or instructing his staff to call the police and have security We're good to go.
00:04:23.000DeSantis' people are in there saying, have me come out to tell you guys not to be here, why he's here, signing the book.
00:04:30.000I thought that Governor DeSantis was, like, he always talks about how he's in favor of free speech.
00:04:35.000Like, we have a First Amendment right to be here to rally in support of President Trump.