DeSantis Again Pledges To “Flatten” The Bahamas

Florida Politics reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to advance the hypothetical of an attack from the Bahamas by way of illustrating support for Israel’s ongoing operations against Hamas.

“Down in Florida, if we were getting rockets fired from the Bahamas to, like, Fort Lauderdale, we would level, we would never ever accept that. I mean, it would be flattened. The people, wherever that was coming from would just be flattened,” DeSantis said in Dubuque, Iowa.

Despite the need for the U.S. Embassy in Nassau to clarify that his comments don’t reflect American foreign policy, the Governor continues to use this metaphor to draw a parallel between hypothetical attacks on the U.S. from Nassau and the situation in Israel.

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‘We would never accept that’: @RonDeSantis repeats claim that he would ‘flatten’ the Bahamas if they attacked Florida

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— Phil Ammann (@PhilAmmann) December 20, 2023