Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended a provocative video shared by his political team that attacked former President Donald Trump’s record on LGBTQ rights and was widely criticized as homophobic.
In his first remarks about the video since it was shared on Twitter by the “DeSantis War Room” account last week, the governor late Wednesday argued that Trump’s past comments in support of including transgender women in beauty pageants were at odds with the former president’s current rhetoric.
“I think identifying Donald Trump as really being a pioneer in injecting gender ideology into the mainstream where he was having men compete against women in his beauty pageants, I think that’s totally fair game because he’s now campaigning saying the opposite, that he doesn’t think that you should have men competing in women’s things like athletics,” DeSantis said in an interview with conservative commentator Tomi Lahren on her streaming show “Tomi Lahren is Fearless.”
