Donald Trump organizes rally in Florida amid indictments, Surfside collapse

The governor’s office denied reports that Trump’s organizers had called for the Sarasota rally to be postponed, but DeSantis thwarted talk of the 2024 election in the White House, saying he was focusing on his current job. On the rise of DeSantis. Facing a rough time, Donald Trump spent a Saturday night rally in Florida denouncing his company’s indictments on tax fraud charges, while saying nothing about the looming political rivalry with the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis. Proponents in Sarasota say that New York City attorneys general are the latest in a string of investigators trying to stop his political movement with investigations that have included Russian election interference, two impeachment proceedings, and now taxes. “Just because of politics, they want to do things to hurt us,” Trump praised several Florida Republicans in the crowd, but one prominent lawmaker was not present: DeSantis, who has been watching a rerun since the collapse of a 12-story apartment building in Surfside, near Miami, Killing at least 24 people and leaving more than 124 missing, the rally came in Florida, a state where Trump has twice won, as some Republicans are already talking about the 2024 presidential race — and an expression of support for DeSantis rather than Trump. DeSantis scores well in early opinion polls conducted at high-level meetings, the Conservative Political Action Conference, and the Western Conservative Summit. The Florida governor recently spoke with Trump, who agreed it was the right decision not to attend the rally, a DeSantis spokesperson said. Christina Buchou: “The governor’s duty is to be on Surfside to make sure families and the community have what they need in the wake of this tragedy.” The governor’s office also disputed reports that he had asked Trump’s organizers to postpone a Sarasota rally in the wake of the building collapse near Miami, and beyond criticism of the New York indictments, Trump has fueled familiar political crowds: protests over his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, attacks on the Biden administration over illegal immigration and economic policy, and defenses have criticized the response to COVID-19, and claimed that Trump-backed Republicans will win control of Congress in next year’s election. Trump also suggested, as he often does, that he might seek the presidency again in 2024, Trump said, even as other Republicans consider their presidential bids. 2024 presidential race, saying he is currently focused on his current job before running for re-election next year. said Helen Aguirre Ferry, executive director of the Florida Republican Party and former director of communications for DeSantis. More: Trump’s gathering in Sarasota is still going on despite a report DeSantis wants it scrapped because of SurfsideMore: Trump’s longtime financial manager, confidant of the accused. Who is Allen Weisselberg? The 2024 presidential race is around the corner, Trump has expressed some annoyance with DeSantis’ political rise, and in interviews, Trump has sought to assert his party’s dominance by saying he would consider Florida’s governor as a potential running mate. He also took credit for DeSantis’ success, saying his endorsement enabled the then-Congressman to win the Florida Republican primary for governor in 2018. “I was at the beginning of Ron,” Trump told Fox Business Network last month. She declined to discuss any disagreements with DeSantis in the lead up to the Sarasota rally, only issuing a statement saying they never planned to postpone the event in the wake of the building collapse on the other side of the state. It’s a three and a half hour drive away from the Miami area, and the rally won’t affect Surfside’s recovery efforts. During the rally, Trump asked his supporters to stand for a moment of silence for the victims of the collapse. “Like all Americans, President Trump sends his deepest condolences to those who have lost loved ones or been displaced by the terrible tragedy at Surfside, and with DeSantis facing only a re-election bid next year, Democrats are looking to exploit the divisions between the governor and the former president,” said Harrington. Remove Ron ad this week in which Trump attacks Republican support for his supposed protectionism, and a possible effort to turn Trump – and some of his supporters – against DeSantis, the voiceover on the ad addressed Trump directly by saying he had taken a “rising member of Congress” and made him governor of the nation’s third largest state from The ad said “Now Ron beats you up in the race for president.” An indictment of the Trump Organization and CFO looms over a massive rally just over five months ago, Trump has already begun to resume political rallies, starting with the June 26 event in North Ohio, and Saturday’s rally was a homecoming of sorts for the former president. His Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida has been closed for the summer, so Trump is currently living in His golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and the Sarasota event were organized just days after prosecutors revealed indictments for the Trump Organization. and Allen Weiselberg, the company’s longtime chief financial officer. Weiselberg, accused of collecting more than $1.7 million in unofficial damages as part of a company-sanctioned tax avoidance scheme, pleaded not guilty. More: Donald Trump tells Ohio crowd he’s ‘trying to save American democracy’. Still under investigation, he denounced the accusations as politically motivated, and argued that his company was chosen for things many companies do in terms of fringe benefits and taxes. It’s horrible, horrible,” Trump said of the investigation.