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Governor Ron DeSantis has been on to Susie Wiles and her scams for almost a decade. DeSantis pushed the Trump campaign to cut ties with Susie Wiles in 2019 after he said she leaked an internal memo, she wrote, that laid out how lobbyists and donors could buy access to the new Florida governor. She's now being accused of leaking information about the Trump administration. She was chair of Ron DeSantis’s PAC at the time and sent it to his chief of staff about two weeks after DeSantis took office. It was an internal strategy document for the governor’s political operation and outlined an aggressive fundraising plan that was basically selling influence - the same strategy she has been accused of implementing in the Trump administration. DeSantis said he never saw the memo and cut ties with Wiles immediately. Wiles later said it would be “false and grossly unfair” to assume any of the ideas were implemented, and that DeSantis should be commended for high ethical standards. Sources are now saying that Wiles was trying to push Secretary Pete Hegseth out to deflect blame for the midterm losses. Trump’s close advisers reportedly told him that Wiles’s team was leaking information about Hegseth (related to the Iran war, management style, and firings of senior officers) to protect her position. One former Trump official was quoted calling her a significant leaker. Details: 🔺️In the fall of 2019, less than a year after Wiles worked DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaign, the Trump campaign severed ties with her as its top Florida adviser. 🔺️DeSantis personally made clear he wanted her out, saying her ouster was necessary “to get the party in order” ahead of 2020. 🔺️Wiles was also pressured to leave the lobbying firm Ballard Partners. 🔺️She later returned to Trump world and played a central role in the 2024 campaign. 🔺️That history is resurfacing as Wiles stepped down as chief of staff. Stephen Miller was named to replace her effective Monday. 🔺️Then more accusations about Wiles surfaced from Calley Means, the former HHS senior adviser who resigned in late October. 🔺️Means posted a formal request that Wiles and political adviser James Blair stop harassing him with texts and calls. 🔺️He said if he was inaccurate about any of the statements he made about Wiles' mafia-style White House run, he would correct and apologize. 🔺️He then dared them to sue, so discovery could find out whether Ballard Partners and Continental Strategy (where Wiles’s daughter Katie is a partner) had undue influence on White House policy. Copied from: #ChristinaAguayoNews

Governor DeSantis says the Blue tsunami was about sending a message to Republicans. Not an endorsement of Democrats. “You had Democrats energized and independents overwhelmingly energized to vote against Republicans. This was not an endorsement of Democrats. Democrats were the beneficiaries of an electorate that was coming out that was energized was frustrated and wanted to send a message.”