Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has called out Democrat President Joe Biden’s handling of the Winter Olympics in Communist China.
Despite calls from all sides for firm action against the Chinese Communist Party over its many human rights abuses, Biden only mounted a “diplomatic boycott” which made America look weak.
Speaking during a new interview with Fox News, Gov. DeSantis dropped the hammer on Biden.
“I’ve said previously that I would boycott the Beijing Olympics,” DeSantis said.
“I mean, I think it’s a mistake.
“I mean, China is our number-one geopolitical foe.
“If you look at what they’re doing, they’re amassing huge amounts of power.
“And it’s not just that they’re building up their military, they are, they command huge influence within the United States.
“This is a genocide Olympics,” the governor said.
“And the thing is you see these, the broadcast on NBC, where they’re whitewashing this stuff.
“You look at these corporate sponsors that are signing up on that. You know, they will blow, these corporations in America, and they’ll blow a gasket, you know, for these small issues in the United States.
“But yet they’re willing to underwrite games of the country that’s committing genocide.
“I think it’s a disgrace what’s going on.
“You know my view is I don’t want to see American troops in Ukraine.
“I think that we have a lot of problems here in the United States.
“We’ve given Ukraine a lot of support over the years under the Trump administration we provided huge amounts of lethal aid, and so I think that they’ve been equipped to defend themselves, but to put American troops in the midst of that is not something that I want to see, particularly with Floridians
“And so this will give us more people to be able to do things like respond if there’s disorder, like respond to disasters and all those other things,” he said of creating the Florida State Guard.
“It also gives us the ability to have people who are not subject to federal requirements.
“So, for example, the federal government wouldn’t be able to mobilize and deploy people who are in the State Guard.
“They also wouldn’t be able to impose mandates on people in the State Guard.
“They are trying to do that with the federal guard.
“And so I think it will help us complete our mission and will also allow us to do in a way which is not subject to the whims of the federal government.
“A lot of these corporations will not buck the Communist Party of China.
“I mean, they will bend the knee.
“Hollywood bends the knee to these people.
“Our financial institutions bend the knee.
“So they have an inordinate amount of influence over our domestic situation, which is much different than, say, the Soviet Union back during the Cold War.
“So they are a very formidable adversary.
“They do not have our best interests at heart.
“And I think President Trump was really the first one to really call that out.
“A lot of administrations have really helped to elevate and empower Beijing, including Biden,” DeSantis said.
“And I think the best policy for America is to understand that they’re an adversary, and we should want to weaken their grip over our economy and over our political system.”
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— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) February 8, 2022
