DeSantis: The Media Was Hoping For The Hurricane To Hit Tampa Because “It Would Have Been Worse For FL”

Florida Politics reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis, during an exclusive interview with the right-of-center Florida’s Voice website, was asked if there would be any “accountability in the media” for reporting that the storm had been forecast to strike the Tampa Bay area. “Quite frankly, you have national regime media that wanted to see Tampa, because they thought that would be worse for Florida. That’s how these people think,” DeSantis said, in an interview publicized Tuesday.

“They don’t care about the people of this state. They don’t care about the people of this community. They want to use storms and destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda. And they don’t care what destruction’s in their wake. They don’t care about the lives here. If they can use it to pursue their political agenda, they will do it,” DeSantis asserted, without elucidating what agenda could be served by a storm striking a major population center.

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The anti-LGBTQ founder of the “right of center” Florida’s Voice, seen below, was a speaker at CPAC Texas. His Twitter feed is exactly as you’d expect.

I asked Governor DeSantis about media accountability and he absolutely demolished them

“They don’t care about the people of this state… they want to use destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda” pic.twitter.com/IErBHfwkuJ

— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) October 4, 2022