Valuetainment - July 24, 2025


＂DeSantis Was A SNAKE＂ - Laura Loomer BLASTS DeSantis’ Plot To Take Down Trump


Episode Stats

Length

15 minutes

Words per Minute

202.7972

Word Count

3,132

Sentence Count

250


Summary

In this episode, Ron DeSantis talks about his path to becoming Governor of Florida and how he became one of the most powerful men in the country. He talks about how he got his start in politics, how he was able to raise millions of dollars for his campaign, and why he decided to run for president in 2016.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 There were a lot of Republicans when the president lost in 2020.
00:00:02.660 I was in different fundraisers, and I would watch people who were diehard Trump guys in 2016 through 2020.
00:00:08.800 And they started saying, well, you know what, what are you going to do to distance yourself from the president?
00:00:13.480 Because he's becoming very, you know, he needs to stop talking about it, and he needs to do this.
00:00:18.360 And what he's talking about, are you more Team DeSantis?
00:00:22.020 And you kind of watched certain communities turn on the president very quickly.
00:00:28.280 And they were no longer worried about his threats.
00:00:31.920 You know, there was a midterm that they thought it was going to be a red wave, didn't happen.
00:00:37.220 Like, well, you know, the president's endorsement is no longer as heavy as it was before.
00:00:41.580 So who knows?
00:00:42.980 These politicians sometimes won't show the fear unless if that person gets more and more powerful.
00:00:49.780 So maybe they're not afraid of Trump, afraid of Musk right now.
00:00:52.740 But in the next two to three years, four years, if they see Musk is more serious about what he wants to do,
00:00:57.380 maybe they'll flip.
00:00:58.020 Who knows?
00:00:59.820 Look, I don't think that any of these people are loyal to Trump.
00:01:02.740 Most of them didn't even come out and support him when he first filed to run for the second time, right,
00:01:07.520 after the stolen election.
00:01:09.720 They sat on the sidelines.
00:01:12.160 I mean, a lot of them were kind of waiting, especially here in Florida.
00:01:14.800 Everyone was like, oh, well, DeSantis is going to run.
00:01:16.660 It was already, you know, an open secret.
00:01:18.200 I'm the one that forced it out of DeSantis when I almost got arrested at his book signing.
00:01:23.080 And that's the first time that I really – I had met President Trump before, but that's when my closeness, right,
00:01:29.820 in terms of my access to Trump and the campaign really began.
00:01:32.880 And that was in the aftermath of President Trump announcing the second time around.
00:01:41.480 If you recall, Ron DeSantis was doing a shadow book – it was a shadow presidential campaign via his book tour.
00:01:49.480 And I showed up.
00:01:50.640 I organized a – no, that's a Comey.
00:01:53.720 I think if you just go to like – go type in Trump supporters threatened with arrest at DeSantis book signing.
00:02:01.280 You could type it in on Google or whatever browser you use.
00:02:03.580 So I knew that Ron DeSantis was going to be running.
00:02:08.440 I had just finished a 2022 congressional campaign, and I had known, right, I had known that DeSantis –
00:02:16.300 I've known since 2021, actually, that Ron DeSantis was going to run for president
00:02:20.460 because some of my donors for my campaign, right, these like Palm Beach millionaires, billionaires,
00:02:26.480 I had lunch with one of them one day, and he was like an older guy, right?
00:02:29.480 I won't say his name just to protect his privacy, but very well-off individual, lives on Palm Beach Island.
00:02:36.180 Mega donor, right, who lives in Florida on Palm Beach Island.
00:02:39.540 And he wanted to catch up and have lunch and just, you know, just talk about things.
00:02:43.400 And we were having lunch one day, and, you know, just like chit-chat.
00:02:49.460 Oh, how's everything going?
00:02:50.740 Oh, it's great.
00:02:51.380 You know, what are you up to?
00:02:52.120 Oh, I just, you know, left this fundraiser for Ron DeSantis last night.
00:02:55.540 And mind you, this was 2021.
00:02:56.580 This was about a week after January 6th, okay, week after January 6th or so, like two weeks after January 6th.
00:03:04.560 And he's like, oh, I just left this fundraiser hosted by, you know, another big donor.
00:03:09.420 I won't say their name for the sake of privacy.
00:03:11.480 And, oh, we raised $2 million for Ron DeSantis.
00:03:14.320 And he asked me to be on his presidential finance committee.
00:03:17.800 Mind you, the guy who I'm having lunch with in 2021, right after J6, he's like almost 80, right, at this time.
00:03:24.780 So I figured he's having like a senior moment.
00:03:27.600 Oh, presidential, you know, because we were not even into 2022 yet, right, which is when Governor Ron DeSantis had his re-election campaign.
00:03:35.520 So I gently correct him, right, trying not to embarrass him at lunch.
00:03:39.000 Oh, you mean gubernatorial.
00:03:40.300 And he's like, no, he doubles down.
00:03:41.900 He goes, no, it's presidential finance.
00:03:43.360 And I said, no, you're talking about his gubernatorial, right?
00:03:47.080 And now I'm like starting to get frustrated because he goes, no, his presidential.
00:03:51.900 I'm like, what are you talking about?
00:03:54.940 I said, 2022 hasn't even happened yet.
00:03:57.440 He's running for governor.
00:03:58.260 What are you talking about?
00:03:59.440 And he goes, oh, I wasn't supposed to mention that.
00:04:01.960 Don't talk about it.
00:04:03.280 This is in 2021.
00:04:05.720 Yeah, 2021.
00:04:07.440 So he was already forming his presidential finance committee in the aftermath of J6.
00:04:12.740 Mind you, it was like literally two weeks after January 6th.
00:04:15.600 Because I remember I was out of the country.
00:04:16.940 I was in El Salvador for January 6th.
00:04:18.580 And I came back, I think, on the 15th.
00:04:20.980 And so this was like two or three weeks after J6.
00:04:23.560 And I remember sitting there like, holy shit, like he's running for president.
00:04:27.700 This is crazy.
00:04:28.740 And so I knew all throughout my entire second congressional campaign when I ran in the villages in central Florida that Ron DeSantis was going to run against Trump.
00:04:39.740 And so naturally I just really developed this animosity towards Ron DeSantis.
00:04:43.460 And I knew that his book tour was going to just be a shadow presidential campaign because it was Rupert Murdoch who hates Trump.
00:04:51.560 And Rupert Murdoch gave him a book deal through HarperCollins Publishing, which was his book, you know, his publishing company.
00:04:57.660 So I staged the idea.
00:04:59.060 I said, all right, let's force it out of him.
00:05:01.060 Nobody wants to take the first shot at Ron.
00:05:03.200 And he's denying the fact that he's running for president.
00:05:05.680 So I had this idea.
00:05:07.340 I said, why don't I organize a rally?
00:05:09.900 It's not going to be a protest.
00:05:10.980 It's going to be a rally in support of Trump outside of Ron DeSantis' book signing for the first ever book appearance for his new book, right, the Blueprint for Florida, whatever it was called.
00:05:20.080 And he did it in my district.
00:05:21.280 It happened to be in the district where I ran for Congress.
00:05:24.020 And I showed up.
00:05:25.760 There was nothing anti-DeSantis about it.
00:05:27.780 We were all wearing Trump shirts that said Trump won.
00:05:30.380 And all of a sudden, the video's online, I think you can play it, the security guard comes out from Books A Million and goes, you need to leave.
00:05:37.460 And I was like, why?
00:05:38.320 We're Trump supporters.
00:05:39.440 Isn't this Ron DeSantis?
00:05:40.580 Like, I thought he supports Trump, right?
00:05:42.320 Obviously, I'm being tongue-in-cheek because I know what's going on.
00:05:44.720 I know what's going on, which is why I did what I did.
00:05:47.380 And then eventually the guy goes, I'm going to have to have you guys arrested.
00:05:50.920 I'm calling the cops if you don't leave.
00:05:52.420 And I said, why would you arrest us?
00:05:53.960 We're Trump supporters.
00:05:54.960 I thought Ron DeSantis was a MAGA governor.
00:05:57.900 What's going on?
00:05:58.500 And he goes, I was just told by DeSantis and his staff that I have to make every Trump person leave.
00:06:04.560 And that's what he said in the video.
00:06:05.440 You can play the video.
00:06:06.300 And this video must have been seen like 27 million times.
00:06:09.380 I mean, it literally, it was the video that finally made it safe.
00:06:13.120 It broke the ice for people to finally say, all right, Ron DeSantis is running for president.
00:06:17.340 Because nobody had the balls to do it.
00:06:19.020 Nobody had the balls to do it.
00:06:19.960 I played a clip.
00:06:23.480 Yes.
00:06:24.300 Why?
00:06:24.980 Because.
00:06:25.820 Because of what you're wearing?
00:06:26.920 They told me to say anybody running Trump has to go right now.
00:06:30.540 Oh.
00:06:33.160 I'm sorry, guys.
00:06:39.900 I have to call an IPD now.
00:06:41.320 I'm fine.
00:06:41.980 Thank you.
00:06:42.540 So the security screwed it up for him.
00:06:45.820 Well, he's being honest.
00:06:46.960 No, he is.
00:06:47.760 But they.
00:06:48.800 So they flat out.
00:06:49.800 So here's a guy that becomes a governor because.
00:06:51.620 Okay, so did this cause him to not want to promote the book more because he was worried
00:06:56.420 people like you were going to show up?
00:06:57.940 He was using the book to get away with violating campaign finance laws.
00:07:02.520 So he.
00:07:03.180 You have to.
00:07:04.320 You have to announce.
00:07:05.680 Right.
00:07:06.060 You have to officially announce your campaign within, you know, a certain period of you're
00:07:11.620 already like discussing, you know, fundraising and and hiring staff.
00:07:15.800 And you have like an actual set date.
00:07:18.260 Right.
00:07:18.560 You there's there's rules about exploratory committees and when you have to file.
00:07:24.380 And so I was making the argument that Ron DeSantis was in violation of FEC rules and FEC
00:07:29.080 laws because he had already been like formulating his presidential campaign because, you know,
00:07:34.080 people were telling me they were having meetings and he was using the governor's mansion in
00:07:38.640 Tallahassee to host all these meetings with campaign officials.
00:07:41.500 Now everybody knows this.
00:07:42.640 Right.
00:07:42.780 It's like the biggest open secret of twenty twenty four.
00:07:45.140 Everybody's come clean about it.
00:07:46.500 But and books have been written about it.
00:07:48.400 But at the time, people were in denial.
00:07:50.360 They're like, oh, this is not the case.
00:07:52.320 And so I had called out the fact that this was Rupert Murdoch's way to flush DeSantis with
00:07:59.020 money because he didn't own a home.
00:08:01.100 He didn't own a car.
00:08:02.200 He doesn't own anything.
00:08:03.140 He doesn't have anything.
00:08:04.060 Even now, he doesn't have anything.
00:08:05.880 He doesn't he doesn't he doesn't own any assets.
00:08:08.560 And so if you look at his financial disclosure forms, he how was he going to go up against
00:08:13.900 President Trump, who is an accomplished author, a businessman, a billionaire.
00:08:18.860 And so this was their strategy to have Ron DeSantis have a couple million dollars in his
00:08:24.880 bank account before he officially announced his run for president so that he didn't look
00:08:29.640 pathetic running against Donald Trump as a billionaire.
00:08:32.160 I mean, if you this is this is true.
00:08:34.180 Ron DeSantis doesn't own a car.
00:08:35.560 He does not own a home.
00:08:37.340 So when he and his wife, Casey, Jill, leave the governor's mansion after 2026, who knows
00:08:43.860 where they're going to go?
00:08:44.540 They don't even have a residence.
00:08:45.840 Ron DeSantis doesn't own a home.
00:08:47.080 No, he doesn't own a home.
00:08:48.340 You're right.
00:08:48.960 I just looked it up.
00:08:49.940 Ron DeSantis doesn't own a home.
00:08:51.620 So and he doesn't own a car either.
00:08:53.520 It may have changed, but he got caught using FDLE vehicles outside of their designated purpose.
00:08:59.360 Right.
00:08:59.780 So this is the kind of stuff I was calling him out for.
00:09:02.700 He doesn't own anything.
00:09:03.480 You could see he he doesn't own a car.
00:09:06.400 He was using a campaign event.
00:09:07.980 And this is how he got caught not owning a car is because he was using an FDLE, Florida
00:09:12.300 Department of Law Enforcement vehicle, and they got in a car accident.
00:09:15.840 The car got in an accident.
00:09:17.140 They had to report it.
00:09:18.040 And then a reporter found out about it.
00:09:20.060 And Ron DeSantis was driving it.
00:09:21.520 Then he was he was traveling in the car to a campaign fundraiser, which is a violation
00:09:26.720 because you're not allowed to use taxpayer funds.
00:09:30.380 Those are taxpayer funded vehicles for the sake of campaigning.
00:09:34.200 And so that's how people found out about it.
00:09:35.860 So you're saying what you're saying?
00:09:37.080 The book was a way of getting some kind of money.
00:09:39.300 The book was a way of helping him because they were promoting it nonstop.
00:09:42.480 He was getting, you know, selling it.
00:09:43.580 They bought all these advanced copies.
00:09:44.980 The Republican Governors Association, RGA, bought thousands of copies of the book that
00:09:49.500 they were giving as, you know, gifts to donors.
00:09:52.860 So creating this facade, right, this astroturfed image that, wow, you know, oh, he must be so
00:09:59.360 popular.
00:09:59.940 Wow.
00:10:00.360 He got a book deal.
00:10:01.480 Wow.
00:10:02.320 It's, you know, Rupert Murdoch's publishing company.
00:10:05.100 Wow.
00:10:05.460 He's all over the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, not disclosing the fact that Rupert
00:10:10.180 Murdoch, who's being sued by Trump, by the way, rightfully so, owns Fox News.
00:10:15.440 He owns the Wall Street Journal.
00:10:16.880 He owns the New York Post.
00:10:18.100 And so this is how they were able to gaslight everybody and astroturf a campaign and make
00:10:22.680 everybody think that he was more popular than Donald Trump.
00:10:25.400 So I was like the main person calling this out and like really taking aggressive shots
00:10:30.200 at people, political operatives, exposing people for taking money on the side, going
00:10:35.260 to these private influencer dinners with DeSantis.
00:10:37.720 And that's when I got a phone call from Trump.
00:10:39.800 I don't usually answer unknown numbers.
00:10:42.020 And after I was threatened with arrest at that event, I got a phone call.
00:10:46.480 And then it was and something just compelled me.
00:10:48.780 You ever like feel compelled to do something that you don't usually do?
00:10:51.820 Something compelled me to answer this unknown call.
00:10:54.940 And so I answered the phone.
00:10:56.640 It's like 730, eight o'clock at night after I almost just got arrested.
00:11:00.620 And I'm like, hello.
00:11:01.640 And it's like, hi, Laura, this is your favorite president.
00:11:05.060 And I thought it was a prank call.
00:11:06.400 Like, honestly, I thought that somebody was prank calling me.
00:11:08.600 I said, no, really, honestly, don't waste my time.
00:11:10.420 Who is this?
00:11:10.940 I said that on the phone.
00:11:12.160 Oh, it's your favorite president.
00:11:13.340 I loved what you did to DeSanctimonious today.
00:11:16.560 And Trump and I had about a 15, 20 minute phone call.
00:11:19.420 And he said that he loved it.
00:11:21.500 Said, you know, Ron DeSantis was such a snake for running against him, that he owes his entire
00:11:26.660 political career.
00:11:27.900 And that the video finally basically allowed the campaign to get more aggressive against
00:11:32.560 Ron DeSantis.
00:11:33.540 And he said, I think you're great.
00:11:35.440 I really think you're great.
00:11:36.580 I want you to come and meet with me at Mar-a-Lago.
00:11:38.460 And he put me in touch with his staff and his scheduler.
00:11:41.900 And about two weeks later, I drove down from, at the time I was living in central Florida,
00:11:50.100 the villages, I drove down from the villages to Mar-a-Lago and I met with the president.
00:11:55.720 And it was in his office that he started asking me all these questions about people.
00:12:00.340 And I was just able to rattle off all this intel and tell him things that his own advisors
00:12:03.780 and his staff hadn't told him.
00:12:05.280 Do you trust Ron DeSantis today?
00:12:06.600 I mean, no.
00:12:08.580 Because him and President Trump are now closer.
00:12:10.540 There's pictures of, you know, his wife golfing with the president and the president has Ron
00:12:16.660 coming and they're looking all like everything is good now.
00:12:19.560 There was even a meeting, I think about six weeks ago in a video where, you know, Ron is
00:12:24.660 saying he's being complimentary of the president.
00:12:26.760 That was the opening of Alligator Alcatraz and the president came down.
00:12:29.980 Look, I think that Ron DeSantis is trying to rehabilitate his political career because he
00:12:33.960 lost so much good faith.
00:12:35.060 Mind you, DeSantis doesn't have a base.
00:12:37.620 OK, it's the MAGA base on lease from President Trump, who was graciously renting him his own
00:12:43.260 base so that he could develop his own political career.
00:12:46.000 He was a no-name congressman.
00:12:47.280 He was a no-name congressman in 2017, 2018.
00:12:50.120 He wasn't even going to get the endorsement.
00:12:51.880 Adam Putnam had all the endorsements.
00:12:53.440 And then it wasn't until Matt Gaetz went into Mar-a-Lago and said, oh, you know, there's
00:12:57.960 this guy.
00:12:58.580 He's my friend.
00:12:59.380 You have to endorse him.
00:13:00.200 And it shocked everybody.
00:13:00.960 Everybody was so pissed about it because they thought, you know, there was so much
00:13:04.160 money, hundreds of millions of dollars behind Adam Putnam.
00:13:06.960 And all of a sudden, Trump endorsed this no-name congressman, Ron DeSantis, and he was able
00:13:12.220 to beat Adam Putnam.
00:13:13.740 And then he barely won his election against Andrew Gillum.
00:13:17.240 And he would not.
00:13:18.980 It was about, yeah, it was about 34,000 votes and they had to, you know, have a, it was
00:13:24.980 very contentious.
00:13:25.740 I don't want to take anything away.
00:13:27.120 He crushed it as a governor.
00:13:28.200 I'm not, I'm not sitting here saying that.
00:13:29.540 And I also think he made a mistake.
00:13:30.900 Yeah.
00:13:31.240 And I've openly said it when I had him on.
00:13:32.800 I'm not, my position hasn't changed.
00:13:34.800 But, uh, uh, but now when I'm watching this on how the president is comfortable being next
00:13:41.040 to him and it's, so you're saying this is Ron's way of trying to get back in the good
00:13:45.600 graces of the president.
00:13:46.800 Yeah, I don't trust Ron.
00:13:48.640 All right.
00:13:48.920 Look, I, I don't, I don't personally trust Ron DeSantis.
00:13:51.780 I think that he's playing a political game and he's trying to rehabilitate his, his career.
00:13:58.480 I think that had he not run against the president, maybe Trump would have endorsed Casey over
00:14:04.020 Byron.
00:14:04.800 But I think that so much bad blood was created.
00:14:07.820 And especially after, you know, Casey then tried to run for, uh, for governor of Florida
00:14:13.360 and then her whole, you know, perspective campaign got blown up with the hope Florida
00:14:16.600 scandal.
00:14:17.540 Uh, I think that he realizes crap, you know, I don't own a home.
00:14:21.040 I don't own a car.
00:14:21.980 People hate me.
00:14:23.140 I've, I'm now viewed as a traitor.
00:14:25.500 I don't know how I'm going to recover my image.
00:14:27.820 And so maybe he's hoping for some kind of political appointments because where's he going to go?
00:14:33.940 What's he going to do?
00:14:34.920 Unless he gets hired to go work as some, you know, contractor at some defense, at some defense
00:14:40.280 company, or they fire someone from the Trump administration and they make Ron DeSantis a
00:14:45.540 political appointee.
00:14:46.420 I don't know.
00:14:47.220 Maybe he's going to go buy a car and a house.
00:14:48.500 Maybe it's time to buy a car and a house and kind of go do what many Americans do.
00:14:53.120 If he doesn't own a car and a house, like it's time to buy a car and a house.
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