The former president and virtual Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his one-time rival, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantismet this Sunday privately at a golf club in Miami to close a truce and join forces for the remainder of the electoral campaign, according to what the newspaper reported today The Washington Post.
On Sunday, when DeSantis was playing golf at the club Shell Baynearly MiamiTrump joined him for a lunch and private conversation, according to the Washington Post.
This was the first meeting between Trump and DeSantis since the governor abandoned the fight for the presidential candidacy in January in which, six months ago, he looked like Trump’s main contender.
Trump, who did not spare derogatory expressions towards DeSantis in the primary election season, is involved in a criminal trial in New York for hiding payments in exchange for silencing a porn actress, but he took advantage of the break in the hearings to travel to Florida this weekends.
The cost of Trump’s legal defense is draining funds from the Republican Party’s presidential campaign, with an impact on the campaigns of many other Republican politicians running at the state level.
According to Politico, the meeting took place through the intermediation of Steven Witkoffpresident of a real estate company and friend of both, and it was at the request of Governor DeSantis.
Another source, this one from the Trump campaign, told NBC that it was DeSantis who took the initiative two weeks ago by asking Witkoff to arrange a get-together to “bury the hatchet” and discuss campaign finance.
For its part, the chain Fox News television, which cited its own sources, indicated that the meeting lasted several hours and in it DeSantis agreed to help Trump reduce the lead in campaign funds that Democratic candidate and President Joe Biden has.
DeSantis has been very effective in raising funds and during his campaign for reelection as governor in Florida he accumulated more than 200 million dollars and a good part of that treasure was later used in his campaign for the presidential candidacy. EFE (I)
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