Former President Donald Trump accused Democrats on Tuesday of donating to Republican White House candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis to prevent him from becoming the 2024 GOP presidential nominee.
Trump, 77, made the claims during a town hall event in Davenport, Iowa, after being asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity about his reaction to President Biden’s remarks that he may retire after one term if his 2020 opponent does not run in next year’s election.
“Well, I think somebody gave him a look that they thought was good,” the GOP presidential candidate said of the 81-year-old incumbent’s remarks, before suggesting that the alleged donations to his primary rival show Democrats — and Biden — are being dishonest about who they want to face in the general election.
“You know, I just found out that Democrats are funding Nikki Haley’s campaign,” Trump said.
“I heard that the Democrats are contributing to Ron DeSanctus – or Ron DeSanctimonious – for the Ron DeSanctus campaign,” he added, using two nicknames he often uses when talking or posting about the Florida governor.
Trump said Democrats donated to Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis in hopes of preventing him from becoming the 2024 GOP presidential nominee. AP
“That’s all they’re good at — rigging elections and great things,” Trump said of the Democrats. “They said, ‘We want to run against Trump.’ They want to run? Well, we did very well in 2016. And we’re doing even better in 2020. The person they don’t want to fight is us”
Trump may be referring to a report in the New York Times that LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman contributed $250,000 to the SFA Fund, a pro-Nikki Haley super PAC that has spent more than $33 million supporting the former South Carolina governor’s GOP. main offer.
Hoffman also dumped nearly $700,000 into the war chest of the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee authorized by the Biden campaign, in April, according to federal election records.
The former president’s response may have been in reference to reports that LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman contributed $250,000 to a pro-Nikki Haley super PAC. AP
The tech billionaire admitted to the Wall Street Journal earlier this year that he visited pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean in 2014, to raise funds for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — a decision he called a “mistake” and a “personal misjudgment.”
The Haley campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
It’s unclear which Democrats Trump is referring to as “contributing” to DeSantis’ White House bid. A spokesman for DeSantis’ campaign suggested Trump may have confused the Florida governor with Haley.
Ron DeSantis, whom Trump calls “DeSanctus,” may have been thrown under the bus by the former president in the Florida governor’s confusion with Haley. Getty Images
Trump held a town hall event the night before the fourth GOP primary debate in Tuscaloosa, Ala., which the former president will not attend.
Trump has a nearly 29-point lead over DeSantis and a 32-point lead over Haley in the Hawkeye State with just over a month to go until the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucus — the first GOP presidential nominating contest of the 2024 cycle.
“I feel great,” Trump told Hannity about the state of the race.
When asked by the Fox News host to reassure voters that, if elected, he “would never abuse power in retaliation against anyone,” Trump replied, “Except for Day One.”
“Other than the First Day. We close the border. And we drill, drill, drill. After that I am not a dictator,” he explained.
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