Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis went off on 60 Minutes’ “malicious” fable about the state’s COVID vaccine rollout.
“It was malicious what they did,” said DeSantis. “That was their goal, to simply try to smear Florida, smear me, smear whoever they could in the process.”
You all know the story by now. 60 Minutes framed its “report” on the rollout as a “pay to play” scheme between DeSantis and Publix. The news program insisted DeSantis gave Publix contracts for the vaccines if it gave his campaign $100,000.
Evan Donovan, WFLA political reporter, tweeted snippets of DeSantis’s press conference.
Democrat Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz has become one of DeSantis’s fiercest defenders, especially since CBS tried to throw him under the bus.
I blogged this morning about CBS News attempting to blame Moskowitz for their liberal fairy tale.
Moskowitz said the deal with Publix is simple:
Jared Moskowitz, the outgoing director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, said that when the state needed to open up more COVID-19 vaccinations faster in late December and early January, he reached out to Walmart first about a potential partnership. But the company said it wouldn’t be ready to go for 21 days.”I then got on the phone with Publix,” Moskowitz said. “And I said, when can you start? 72 hours. That’s it! That’s the whole story!”
Here is the whole press conference.
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