He was touted as the next big hope for the Republican Party, but so far it hasn’t turned out that way. Donald Trump still has the GOP tightly in his grip and a large part of the electorate under his spell. One of DeSantis’ big blunders was picking a fight with Disney, Mickey Mouse, and the popularity of Disneyworld. It didn’t go over so well. A synopsis of this controversy is below.
DeSantis has been governor of Florida since 2019. Prior to that he served in the US House of Representatives for 5 years from 2013 to 2018. He graduated from Yale and went on to study law at Harvard. In 2004 in his second year at Harvard, he was commissioned as an officer in the Navy. He completed Naval Justice School in 2005. In the spring of 2006, DeSantis worked with detainees at Guantanamo. Publicly released records of his service in the Navy were redacted, with the Navy citing a personal-privacy exception to the Freedom of Information Act. A detainee held at Guantanamo alleged in 2022 that DeSantis ove…
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