The Real Story Behind Former President Donald Trump's "Ron DeSanctimonious" DeSantis Nickname

Megyn Kelly
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I didn't call him Ron DeSanctimonious.
DeSanctimonious, but the reason in Sanctus is DeSanctus is just sort of an abbreviation.
He was running, left Congress, was running for the governor of Florida.
He was being decimated.
He had no chance.
He was wiped out.
And he came to see me.
I didn't know him very much at all.
But what I did know is that he was on television along with 150 other congressmen, Republicans
that talked about impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, and they'd
say I was innocent.
And they turned out to be right.
By the way, those two, that phone call was perfect.
My Georgia phone call was even more perfect.
But the phone call was perfect with all the stuff.
You once asked me the question, what about the phone call?
It turned out not only was it perfect, all of this stuff that's happening now shows that
Donald Trump was right on that phone call when I spoke to the president of Ukraine.
Anyway, Ron DeSanctimonious comes in and he said, could you endorse me?
Because I think I could win.
I said, Ron, you're so far behind, you don't have a chance.
You're dead.
He said.
But I didn't know.
He was running against the man who was the secretary of agriculture, I think his name,
Adam Putnam.
And he was up by 30 or 40 points.
It was over.
He said, if you endorse me, you're so popular in Florida, if you endorse me, I will win,
I believe.
I say, you know, I think if we brought back Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, I don't
know if it's going to help.
But let's give it a shot.
OK, because I didn't know Adam Putnam.
In retrospect, perhaps I would have endorsed him instead because I wouldn't have had to
do much endorsing because he had already.
It was one.
The thing was over.
He was already measuring the carpets.
So what happened is I endorsed him and he became a rocket ship.
And he ended up winning a primary very shortly thereafter for by a lot, you know, by a landslide.
Adam Putnam, it was like a it was like a bomb went off.
Wait.
And then he said, I'm not going to win against Pullum because he was, if you remember, turned
out to be a crackhead.
But he was he was a very popular person running, good looking guy running, African-American
running for governor on the Democrat side along Stacey Abrams.
He and Stacey Abrams were the two hot politicians in the Democrat Party.
So polls were looking bad for Ron.
I said, you know what, Ron?
We'll do two or three rallies.
We'll do Trump.
Big, beautiful Trump rallies for you.
I'm going to get you in.
And I did, I guess, a couple, maybe three big, big, beautiful rallies.
I said, you're going to win.
He said, I don't think so.
I said, you're going to win.
I'm telling you, you're going to win.
Anyone.
OK.
And then four years later, they said, would you run against the president?
He said, I have no comment.
I said, he said he had no comment.
That means to me he's running.
So I started hitting him very hard.
Some people said, sir, he's a Republican.
You shouldn't hit him.
I said, no, we're going to we're going to hit him very hard because he's very disloyal.
So when I say sanctimonious, that's what I mean.
He's a very terrible thing.
I think he did.
You know, I'm a loyalist.
I'm a loyal person.
Here's another thing.
A lot of the consultants, you know, these great genius consultants, you pay them all
this money.
They don't know anything.
They said, don't bring it up, sir, that he was disloyal because the people don't care
if he was loyal to you or not.
I said, I think they do.
I was right.
So I've driven him down to almost nothing.
I don't even think he's going to be in second place much longer.
But second place is like 60 points below me.
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