{"id":168461,"date":"2023-05-23T07:21:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=168461"},"modified":"2023-05-23T07:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:27:18","slug":"epic-gov-desantis-jabs-trump-over-the-covid-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=168461","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b>EPIC! Gov. DeSantis jabs Trump over the Covid jab<\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>DeSantis Takes Shot at Trump Over COVID Vaccines<\/h1>\n<h3>The governor teed off on the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cOperation Warp Speed.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->ZAC HOWARD<\/p>\n<p>ORLANDO, FLORIDA \u2014 Governor Ron DeSantis jabbed former President Donald Trump over one of his most controversial stances: COVID vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis fired off a thinly veiled attack on the former president\u2019s role in pushing the shot on hundreds of millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a group of supporters at an event with the Florida Family Policy Council on Saturday evening, DeSantis bemoaned the vaccine mandates many companies placed on their employees and patrons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe way they weaponized these COVID vaxxes was a massive incursion into our freedoms,\u201d<\/strong> DeSantis said. \u201cThey wanted to deny people the right to put food on their table if they didn\u2019t bend the knee and get a COVID shot that they may not have wanted and that many of them did not need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor looked down at his notes as he delivered the next line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can never allow \u2018Warp Speed\u2019 to trump informed consent in this country ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=zachoward_&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1660311315678740482&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theflstandard.com%2Fdesantis-takes-shot-at-trump-over-covid-vaccines%2F&amp;sessionId=89f687fa4850f8c1c3594a45c796fd273147d552&amp;siteScreenName=theflstandard&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1660311315678740482\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>OPERATION WARP SPEED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Operation Warp Speed was purported to be the Trump administration\u2019s effort to accelerate development of the vaccine \u2013 shortening it from the standard 5 to 12 years to a matter of months.<\/p>\n<p>Many skeptics \u2013 including some subject matter experts \u2013 have questioned that narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModerna got its first money from DARPA and BARDA in 2013. This is a U.S. government program. The vaccine companies are just marketing shields. The vaccines, by the way, are made by biodefense contractors. Moderna is made by Resilience, a biodefense contractor, and then Johnson &amp; Johnson and AstraZeneca are made by Emergent Biosolutions outside of Baltimore. This is a U.S. military operation\u2026 and Americans are being hurt,\u201d cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v21ni4o-dr-peter-mccullough-live-on-the-jeff-dornik-show.html?ref=theflstandard.com\"> said<\/a> in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough, along with pharmaceutical R&amp;D and regulatory expert Sasha Latypova, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theflstandard.com\/former-pharma-exec-says-covid-19-shots-are-u-s-government-biowarfare-operation-against-own-population\/\">claimed<\/a> in December that Operation Warp Speed was actually designed to harm Americans and other global populations.<\/p>\n<p>Although Trump has never advocated for mandatory vaccinations, he has routinely championed the shots as life-saving treatments and encouraged Americans to get them.<\/p>\n<p>He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-covid-vaccine-one-of-greatest-achievements-mankind-owens-interview-2021-12?ref=theflstandard.com\">disputed<\/a> claims that they are not effective and even called the shots \u201cone of the greatest achievements of mankind,\u201d asserting that they have \u201csaved tens of millions of lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theflstandard.com\/desantis-takes-shot-at-trump-over-covid-vaccines\/?ref=desantis-download-newsletter\">https:\/\/www.theflstandard.com\/desantis-takes-shot-at-trump-over-covid-vaccines\/?ref=desantis-download-newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeSantis Takes Shot at Trump Over COVID Vaccines The governor teed off on the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cOperation Warp Speed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}