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Florida lawmakers 'dumbfounded' after DeSantis vetoes bipartisan bill that would have expunged minors' records

The bipartisan initiative would have offered a reprieve for nearly 27,000 minors. However, that small glimmer of hope was abruptly taken away when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) unexpectedly vetoed the bill.

According to The Tampa Bay Times, a bipartisan group of lawmakers have shared their reactions to DeSantis' decision to veto a bill that would have expunged criminal records for thousands of minors across the state.

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Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist mocked after his prediction of Biden-led massacres of Republicans fails to materialize

Scott Adams, the Trump-loving cartoonist and creator of "Dilbert," predicted one year ago that American conservatives would be hunted down in the streets if Joe Biden won the presidency.

"If Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year," he wrote on July 1st, 2020, exactly one year ago. "Republicans will be hunted."

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'Consoler-in-chief' Biden in Miami to comfort families of building collapse victims

US President Joe Biden arrived in Florida on Thursday to offer comfort to the families of those killed and missing after last week's condominium collapse, as authorities suspended the search-and-rescue operation due to concerns about the stability of the remaining structure.

Biden, whose personal experience with tragedy has been a hallmark of his political career, will reprise the role of "consoler-in-chief" a week after the 12-story building partially caved in as residents slept.

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Trump supporters seethe after 'cuck' Ron DeSantis thanks Joe Biden for help on Surfside condo disaster

President Joe Biden met with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to discuss the collapsed condominium building in the town of Surfside -- and some supporters of former President Donald Trump aren't happy about it.

In particular, some Trump supporters were angry that DeSantis thanked Biden for being "very supportive from day one" of the tragedy in Surfside, which has resulted so far in 18 confirmed deaths and nearly 150 people still unaccounted for.

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Disinvited from Trump country: Why some red states suddenly want less of Donald Trump

Donald Trump, steadily losing support from his voting bloc since Election Day, appears to suddenly be losing touch with leadership in some red states that supported him during the election. Officials in both Alabama and Florida have reportedly rebuffed Trump's recent attempts to hold self-promotional rallies.

Florida's Ron DeSantis, the state's Republican governor who is eyeing a potential presidential bid for 2024, reportedly "made a direct plea" to the former president to cancel his upcoming campaign-style rally in Sarasota. The rally, which Trump has so far refused to call off, is set to take place about 200 miles from the Miami suburb where part of an apartment building unexpectedly collapsed last week due to structural deficiencies, leaving 16 residents dead and over 100 still missing. One Florida Republican told the Washington Examiner that Trump and his team should "read the room" amid the tragedy.

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Trump blows off DeSantis's 'direct plea' to cancel Florida rally in wake of condo collapse: report

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly blowing off a request from a longtime ally to cancel his planned Florida rally.

The Washington Examiner reports that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a "direct plea" to Trump to at least postpone a planned rally in the wake of the collapse of a condominium in the town of Surfside.

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Trump-loving billionaire rants about migrants 'killing and raping' after he’s revealed as private funder of South Dakota's border deployment

The Tennessee auto-scrap billionaire who's funding South Dakota's deployment of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border claims he's doing so because immigrants are "killing and raping people" and spreading COVID-19, according to an interview with Talking Points Memo.

Willis Johnson, who contributed $350,000 to Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign, suggested that President Joe Biden's policies are compelling people to cross the border in search of "free money."

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DeSantis' lawyers humiliated by federal judge over his 'poorly drafted' social media law

According to a report from the Orlando Weekly, a federal judge in Florida put lawyers representing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on the spot during a Monday hearing that indicated they had an uphill battle in front of them.

At issue is a law the Florida governor fiercely backed that would punish social media companies like Facebook or Twitter that ban users or add warnings to their posts.

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Tomi Lahren celebrates Florida building collapse as 'another shining moment' for Ron DeSantis

Fox News co-host Tomi Lahren on Monday suggested that a building collapse in Florida has been a "shining moment" for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

Lahren made the remarks following a press conference where DeSantis appeared with other officials like Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).

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DeSantis is terrified of angering Trump — so he's mounting a 2024 'shadow campaign': report

As he eyes a potential 2024 presidential bid, Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is "very wary" of doing anything to upset former president Donald Trump, according to a report from Politico's Matt Dixon.

Since being defeated by President Joe Biden in November, Trump has not definitively said whether he plans to seek another term.

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Questions mount about how Florida building could have crumbled

Questions mounted Monday about how a residential building in the Miami area could have collapsed so quickly and violently last week, killing at least nine people with more than 150 still unaccounted for, as desperate families feared the worst.

Experts are looking at possible pre-existing critical flaws in the structure of the apartment tower in Surfside, near Miami Beach, which pancaked into a pile of smoking rubble in the early hours of Thursday.

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Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk pushes conspiracy theory linking Surfside building collapse to terrorism

Its only been two days since the building collapse in Surfside, Fla. and there are already conspiracy theories floating around. As local authorities continue their search for approximately 159 missing individuals, conservative commentators like Charlie Kirk are already raising speculation about the disaster being an act of "domestic terrorism," reports Mediaite.

On Friday, June 25, Kirk tweeted about his alleged conversations with multiple architects who have raised speculation about the collapse.

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