Florida Residents Rip Donald Trump in Hometown Newspaper

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Jun 03, 2024 at 10:36 PM EDT | Updated Jun 03, 2024 at 11:04 PM EDT


In the days following Donald Trump's conviction in Manhattan, the Palm Beach Post said it received "an outpouring of letters" from its readers regarding his guilty verdict, including from several Florida residents who bashed the former president.

In one such letter, which was published by the Post, the hometown paper of Trump's residence in Palm Beach, a resident from Palm Beach Gardens praised the "brave" prosecutors and jurors who held Trump "accountable for his myriad of misdeeds." In another, a Delray Beach resident pointed at Trump's conviction as a Republican problem, writing that the party will "show that they, in fact, don't care about law and order" if they "cling" to the former president for the 2024 election.

Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last week in connection to a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. But the former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee for November maintains that he is innocent, and has accused prosecutors and the presiding judge for attempting to interfere with his reelection chances by bringing the charges against him.

"Following the verdict in his criminal trial, Donald Trump publicly accused the state of New York of subjecting him to a rigged trial, orchestrated by the Biden Administration to take down a political adversary," Bill Morris, who lives in Palm Beach Gardens, wrote to the Post. "To the contrary, Trump is now a convicted felon. He is the actual person who has acted in a criminal manner to try to conceal information regarding his own behavior."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reactions-palm-beach-post-1907773

[Lovie777]

1. They better watch out.....................

De Satan will punish them. Resistance is futile.

[yardwork]

2. DeSantis is term limited and will soon be washed up.

I think the Republicans overplayed the dictator hand. A change is gonna come.

[Deuxcents]

3. I hope you're right about this

[wolfie001]

8. Me too!!!

But, alas, Florida always disappoints.....

[BonnieJW]

9. And yet

the woman running against Rick Scott is polling 5 points ahead

[Deuxcents]

14. Good news! I donated hoping for she would win this election

[NanaCat]

16. Needs to be 10 pts up

The GQP machine down there was built to win elections--and does, more often than not. 5 won't cut it. The GQP can find a way around that in a statewide race.

[melm00se]

13. He is, kind of, correct

DeSantis has been in office twice back to back and thus is blocked from running for re-election in the next election cycle but appears to be eligible to run after skipping a cycle.

SECTION 5. Election of governor, lieutenant governor and cabinet members; qualifications; terms.—
(a) At a state-wide general election in each calendar year the number of which is even but not a multiple of four, the electors shall choose a governor and a lieutenant governor and members of the cabinet each for a term of four years beginning on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January of the succeeding year. In primary elections, candidates for the office of governor may choose to run without a lieutenant governor candidate. In the general election, all candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor shall form joint candidacies in a manner prescribed by law so that each voter shall cast a single vote for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together.
(b) When elected, the governor, lieutenant governor and each cabinet member must be an elector not less than thirty years of age who has resided in the state for the preceding seven years. The attorney general must have been a member of the bar of Florida for the preceding five years. No person who has, or but for resignation would have, served as governor or acting governor for more than six years in two consecutive terms shall be elected governor for the succeeding term.

[SayItLoud]

11. For sure don't agree that Resistance is futile. NT

[lees1975]

15. Desantis may have inadvertently helped Biden carry Florida in 2024.

It has certainly generated scads of campaign cash for Democrats running for office down there. My guess is that every constituency he's alienated is going to push a bigger voter turnout, and in a state like Florida, there are enough Democrats to win it statewide.

[PerceptionManagement]

4. Citizen Dump is a huge loser. Americans don't like losers

Big Stinky Dump is hemorrhaging voters now that he's a convicted felon. (Convicted after sentencing, but yea) Normal people won't be voting for Convict Dump and he aint picking up any new voters.

[Talitha]

5. Dump's supporters "cling to the former president for the 2024 election."

Like Rats on a sinking ship.
Bon Voyage!!!

[KS Toronado]

6. I've reminded Rs in my red town.........

TSF was found guilty of the exact same charges his employee Michael Cohen was found guilty of and sent
to prison for while he was prez. and did nothing to help him.

Will all the fake electors schemes push him over a hundred felonies he's facing?

[chouchou]

7. Dear Donald: Looks like your 15 years of fame is over. Don't expect a farewell party.

[twodogsbarking]

10. Trump is still hated by some for how he got Mar a lago and the suits he filed against the county.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Yup

That's probably some of who wrote in.

(they were pissed)