Loomer Unleashed - July 30, 2023


How Ron DeSantis is Using Bribery To Gain Support For His Presidential Campaign


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Iowa is one of the most important states in the country and a Republican presidential candidate must win there if they want to secure the nomination. That s why you ve been seeing a lot of the GOP presidential candidates spending a ton of time in Iowa lately. But who are the only people supporting Ron DeSantis in Iowa?

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00:00:01.000 Hey everybody, welcome to a new episode of Loomer Unleashed.
00:00:04.000 I'm your host, Laura Loomer.
00:00:06.000 And on today's episode, we're going to talk about how the only people who appear to be supporting Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign are people whose support he literally had to pay for.
00:00:15.000 Now, we all know that Iowa is one of the most important states that a GOP candidate for president must win if they want to secure the GOP nomination for president.
00:00:25.000 That is why you've been seeing a lot of the GOP presidential candidates spending a lot of time in Iowa lately.
00:00:31.000 Recently, Tucker Carlson hosted the first GOP presidential forum of the election season.
00:00:36.000 The forum took place in Iowa, and it was put together by a group called The Family Leader in conjunction with Blaze TV. The CEO and president of The Family Leader is a guy by the name of Bob Vander Plaats.
00:00:47.000 Bob Vander Plaats likes to view himself as one of Iowa's leading evangelical Christian leaders, and he also happens to be a three-time failed gubernatorial candidate in Iowa, having unsuccessfully run for governor in 2002, 2006, and 2010.
00:01:04.000 But despite being rejected by Iowa voters three times in his bid for governor, Vander Plaats seems to think that he understands what GOP voters in Iowa want and what they're really thinking and what they really want to see in their GOP candidate for president.
00:01:19.000 And if anything is clear, it's the fact that Bob Vander Plaats is completely out of touch with what Iowa GOP voters want.
00:01:26.000 Let's look at who he supported in 2015.
00:01:29.000 Vander Plaats endorsed Ted Cruz for president over Donald Trump in 2016.
00:01:34.000 Vander Plaats has a history of spewing anti-Trump rhetoric.
00:01:37.000 Just take a look at this tweet he posted in 2016 in which he said, Great job by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz for exposing Donald Trump.
00:01:45.000 Donald Trump is unprepared and unelectable.
00:01:47.000 Well, Vander Plaats sure ended up eating his words because Donald Trump was certainly electable and went on to serve four years as the greatest president of the United States this country has ever seen.
00:01:58.000 And now, as the 2024 presidential election season heats up, Vander Plaats is back to spewing his anti-Trump rhetoric and is supporting candidates who are not Donald Trump.
00:02:08.000 In a July 14th interview with CBS News, Vander Plaats said that Ron DeSantis was the clear alternative to Donald Trump.
00:02:16.000 July 14th happened to be the same exact day that this forum, hosted by the family leader, took place in Iowa.
00:02:22.000 Why does this matter and why is it of significance that Vander Plaats is supporting Ron DeSantis?
00:02:27.000 Well, what Vander Plaats didn't disclose to the public and what was not disclosed to the American people and was certainly never told to the people of Iowa and attendees of this forum was the fact that on July 3rd, Now,
00:02:55.000 Ron DeSantis wasn't the only GOP presidential candidate who attended this forum in Iowa.
00:03:00.000 Donald Trump decided not to attend for good reason, to which he received a lot of negative criticism for.
00:03:06.000 Republican leaders and TV pundits said that Donald Trump was making a mistake by choosing not to attend this forum.
00:03:12.000 But it looks like Donald Trump made the right decision because after all, why would Donald Trump want to attend a rigged forum in which the host, Bob Vander Plaats, failed to disclose the fact that he received a $50,000 campaign contribution from the Never Back Down Super PAC just 11 days before hosting this forum with Ron DeSantis.
00:03:31.000 That is the very definition of a conflict of interest and unethical behavior.
00:03:35.000 You see, Ron DeSantis is desperate to make it seem like he has original, organic, grassroots support on the ground in Iowa.
00:03:42.000 And that's because Ron DeSantis is not doing so well in the polls.
00:03:45.000 Recent polls conducted this week show that Donald Trump has a nearly 27-point lead over Ron DeSantis in the state of Iowa.
00:03:52.000 And of course, Ron DeSantis is continuing his pander tour to Iowa voters.
00:03:57.000 And he even said that he would consider choosing Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds as his running mate to be VP. But that's not going to happen because we all know Ron DeSantis isn't going to win the GOP primary because Donald Trump is trouncing him and his poll numbers continue to plummet every single day that he continues to take jabs at Donald Trump and further alienate the America First MAGA base that is with Donald Trump.
00:04:21.000 The GOP base recognizes that Donald J. Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and he is entitled to the second term that was stolen from him in 2020.
00:04:30.000 But despite his dwindling poll numbers, both Ron DeSantis himself and the Never Back Down Super PAC, who are clearly illegally coordinating with each other, are determined to try to gain more support for Ron DeSantis in Iowa.
00:04:43.000 Recently, the Never Back Down Super PAC announced that they are going to be purchasing a seven-figure ad buy to run anti-Trump attack ads on television throughout Iowa.
00:04:52.000 But their TV ad rollout is already backfiring tremendously because it turns out Iowa voters aren't a fan of artificial intelligence.
00:05:00.000 You see, the Ron DeSantis for President campaign can't operate in good faith or off of Ron DeSantis' own policy positions, which are subpar compared to President Trump's.
00:05:09.000 So they have to resort to false attacks and literal artificial intelligence manipulation.
00:05:14.000 The TV ad that Ron DeSantis' Never Back Down Super PAC decided to run features an artificially enhanced voice that is a robotic version of President Trump's voice reading a Truth Social post in which President Trump criticized Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds for claiming that she was going to remain neutral in the primary between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump,
00:05:35.000 even though she has clearly demonstrated favorable bias towards Ron DeSantis.
00:05:39.000 You don't have to be a high paid senior political consultant or advisor to know that you're not exactly going to win political favor with Midwesterners like the good old people of Iowa by running fake and artificially enhanced television ads attacking Donald Trump.
00:05:54.000 You see, Ron DeSantis can't run on his own record.
00:05:56.000 He has no strong policies, and this is a guy who owes his entire political career to Donald Trump.
00:06:02.000 So the only thing that Ron DeSantis can do in order to try to gain support for his failing presidential campaign is lie about President Trump.
00:06:11.000 The more people get to know Ron DeSantis, the more they dislike him, and the more he shows his face on the campaign trail, the more he plummets in the polls.
00:06:18.000 Now, Ron DeSantis likes to brag about the fact that he raised $20 million since filing to run for president, but all the money in the world isn't going to be enough money to buy him the personality transplant that he so desperately needs if he wants to gain any traction over President Donald Trump and relate to voters across the country.
00:06:36.000 But this isn't stopping the Never Back Down PAC from shoving Ron DeSantis down the throats of Iowa voters.
00:06:42.000 They recently announced that in addition to their seven-figure ad buy with ads that are going to be attacking Donald Trump, they also plan on hosting Governor Ron DeSantis as their special guest for an Iowa bus tour.
00:06:55.000 Yes, really, they're hosting him as their special guest.
00:06:58.000 Why?
00:06:58.000 Because Ron DeSantis has burned through majority of his campaign cash, and he can't afford to host his own campaign-funded bus tour throughout Iowa.
00:07:08.000 And so now, in another act of illegal coordination between a super PAC and a presidential campaign, the super PAC, Never Back Down, is footing the bill for Ron DeSantis' campaign activities in the state of Iowa.
00:07:20.000 Highly unethical, highly illegal, total FEC violation.
00:07:24.000 Whether it's illegal coordination with the Super PAC or blatant bribery, as we see in the case of Never Back Down giving $50,000 to Bob Vander Plaats just days before this GOP presidential forum in Iowa where Ron DeSantis participated, it's pretty clear that Ron DeSantis has racked up numerous campaign finance violations.
00:07:44.000 But the question is, when is Ron DeSantis going to be held accountable?
00:07:47.000 It's not that he doesn't think that he's above the law.
00:07:50.000 Ron DeSantis seems to know that he is above the law.
00:07:53.000 Which is just reminiscent of his behavior as governor of Florida.
00:07:57.000 This is a guy who changed Florida's resigned to run law so that he could keep his job as governor on taxpayer dime and also run for president.
00:08:04.000 This is a guy who urged the Florida legislature to pass legislation to conceal his travel records so that Florida taxpayers can't see how much of their tax money is going towards Ron DeSantis' travel and we don't get to see who he's traveling with while he's supposed to be governor but is campaigning as an absentee governor for president full time.
00:08:22.000 Everything about Ron DeSantis and his presidential campaign lacks transparency and it's all transactional.
00:08:28.000 The guy is incapable of actually earning organic support for his presidential campaign, and so you see that the only people who are supporting him are literally people who are paid to support him.
00:08:39.000 Whether it's Bob Vander Plaats receiving $50,000 from Never Back Down, Or Paul Renner, the Florida Speaker of the House, who received a $1 million payday from Ron DeSantis' PAC just days after the Florida legislature announced that they had passed the amendment to change Florida's resign-to-run law,
00:08:56.000 which is what Ron DeSantis needed to be changed in order to officially run for president under Florida law.
00:09:02.000 Bribery is icky.
00:09:04.000 Bribery is unethical.
00:09:05.000 Bribery is illegal.
00:09:06.000 But it seems like Ron DeSantis has made bribery a key foundation Focal point of his presidential campaign and a key part of his political strategy since we all know that Ron DeSantis has no chance in hell of beating President Donald Trump if he actually runs an ethical,
00:09:22.000 clean, and legal campaign.
00:09:24.000 There are many such cases throughout United States political history of candidates who raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars or even close to one billion dollars in their failed efforts to become President of the United States.
00:09:36.000 Whether it's Hillary Clinton or Michael Bloomberg, who spent over $700 million in his failed attempt to become President of the United States, or Jeb Bush, who spent hundreds of millions of dollars and couldn't even beat President Donald Trump in a primary.
00:09:48.000 Money doesn't necessarily guarantee somebody the nomination.
00:09:53.000 Ron DeSantis has a Expect to see more bribery and dirty tricks as this political season progresses because as we have seen and as I have clearly shown you with all of these receipts,
00:10:22.000 Ron DeSantis just doesn't have what it takes to become president of the United States in a legal way.
00:10:28.000 But there's something even more sinister than Ron DeSantis hoping for all of these last minute rule changes and procedural gimmicks and bending of the rules in order to get closer to the White House.
00:10:38.000 You see, Ron DeSantis is hoping that Donald Trump is ultimately jailed before the GOP primary can take place so that the playing field is cleared so that Ron DeSantis can be the GOP nominee.
00:10:49.000 And it's up to us, the American people, to keep on informing our friends, informing our neighbors, and informing our fellow peers in society about the truth.
00:10:58.000 They need to know who the real Ron DeSantis is, and people really need to ask themselves, Do you want a president of the United States who is going to bribe people in order to obtain political power?
00:11:08.000 Or do you want a presidential candidate, somebody to be your future president, who admires and values merit as opposed to just bribing people and paying people under the table and behind closed doors to get to where they want to be?
00:11:23.000 And unlike Ron DeSantis, who clearly doesn't value merit because he's too busy bribing his way to get to the top, President Trump recognizes merit and he appreciates hard work.
00:11:32.000 In fact, following the publication of my exclusive report this week in which I documented and exposed the fact that Bob Vander Plaat's organization received $50,000 from the Never Back Down Super PAC just days before Ron DeSantis participated in his forum and received his support for president,
00:11:49.000 President Donald Trump actually sent me a note.
00:11:52.000 Take a look.
00:11:53.000 You see, days before the forum actually took place, Bob Vander Plaats took to Twitter to attack President Trump for not attending his forum. 1.00
00:12:00.000 However, I shot back at Bob Vander Plaats and said, Why would President Trump want to attend your stupid ass forum when you're anti-Trump and pro-DeSantis? 1.00
00:12:08.000 Why should he subject himself to your bias and lies? 1.00
00:12:11.000 Here's your own tweets.
00:12:12.000 You don't look very neutral to me. 0.99
00:12:13.000 You're a never-Trumper and a delusional dissimp. 0.99
00:12:16.000 See the receipts." To which Donald Trump replied in a handwritten note to me saying, Laura, you are really great, Donald. 0.73
00:12:23.000 And then, of course, he said, so true, with an arrow to my reply to Bob Vander Plaats' tweet.
00:12:28.000 So thank you, President Donald Trump, for recognizing good journalism.
00:12:32.000 And thank you, President Donald Trump, for actually having merit and integrity and not relying on political briberies and financial bribery in order to obtain the presidency.
00:12:42.000 The American people are sick and tired of the uniparty establishment donor class controlling our destiny in this country.
00:12:49.000 There is only one word to describe what it means to pay people for their political support, and that is bribery.
00:12:55.000 It's illegal, and we should have an absolute zero-tolerance policy for it here in our country, especially when we're deciding who is going to be the next president of the United States.
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