Socialist Disaster Andrew Gillum Told The WHOPPER OF THE CENTURY About Ron DeSantis

I’m all in for a “Governor Ron DeSantis,” and all of Florida should be too. If you’re on the fence, read this, THEN come back and talk to me.

We cannot have a socialist governor. Period.

Since Gillum is utterly incapable of standing on actual PRINCIPLE, he has to lie in order to get people “afraid” of DeSantis. Like, did you know DeSantis totally justified slavery?

Gillum: DeSantis "authored a book justifying slavery" https://t.co/ZkcIbJPhfh pic.twitter.com/a6mUmZChZ1

— The Hill (@thehill) October 30, 2018

Yeah. DeSantis is totally racist and anti-Semitic and xenophobic.

“He’s spoken at conferences with them,” Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, said when questioned by “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah about his opponent being dogged by allegations of racism.

“He authored a book justifying slavery,” Gillum added, apparently referring to DeSantis’s 2011 book, “Dreams From Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama.”

“He, himself, when he became the Republican nominee, went on Fox News and said to the voters of Florida not to ‘monkey’ the state up,” Gillum added.

“Right, it was a phrase I never heard before,” Noah said.

So Trevor Noah lives under a rock. Good to know.

“Well, of course we never heard it before. He tried to justify it,” Gillum continued. “But I mean ‘monkey around,’ right? ‘Monkey business.’ ‘Monkey it up.’ I mean this guy is Harvard- and Yale-educated. He could come up with a better phrase.”

“He said exactly what he meant to say. He communicated exactly what he wanted to say to his voters, to his constituents, and then, when he got called on it, he tried to run from it,” Gillum added.

BULLSH*T. After that entire thing BLEW up, even YOU GILLUM– YOUUUU– didn’t jump on that garbage. I wrote about it right here. Holy crap. You’re SUCH a dishonest windbag.

And no. DeSantis did NOT “justify” slavery in his book, you lying douchecanoe.

This is an extraordinary lie. DeSantis wrote a book praising the Constitution. Nowhere in that book does he do anything but condemn slavery. https://t.co/SEEpDiw4P5

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) October 30, 2018

Nonsense. They didn't "decide" not to. There would have been no Constitution. The choice was (1) a Constitution and slavery and abolition of the slave trade, or (2) no Constitution and slavery and no abolition of the slave trade. It wasn't a high school debate class.

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) October 30, 2018

The DeSantis campaign has responded to Gillum’s disgusting lies.

“This is an attempt by the Gillum campaign to continue to distract the media from his involvement in an FBI investigation, countless news reports on him asking for and taking free stuff from lobbyists, using city funds to pay for a trip related to his campaign, accepting contributions from an undercover FBI agent and not reporting it in his disclosures,” DeSantis communications director Stephen Lawson said in a statement to The Hill.

The spokesperson also addressed Gillum’s claims that DeSantis “authored a book justifying slavery” and said none of the Democrat’s “claims are true.”

“In fact, it is the opposite,” the statement reads. “The book explains what historians say, he does not defend anything. In fact, he lauds Thurgood Marshall for his legal offensive against racial segregation and even says how not abolishing slavery in the constitution was a failure.”

For those wondering…

h/t The Hill