Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went after his GOP primary rival former President Trump on Thursday for his Iowa town hall the night before, claiming the former president engaged in “massive gaslighting.”
As he has the previous four, Trump chose to skip the fifth GOP primary debate, also held in Iowa the same night, and opted instead for a town hall where he faced questions from a mostly friendly crowd.
“I don’t think that there was very many critical questions,” DeSantis said in an MSNBC interview.
He called out Trump, claiming the former president lied about COVID-19 policy.
“He’s not done any debates yet. I think it’s because he knows he can get away with that type of gaslighting at that venue,” DeSantis said. “He knows he wouldn’t be able to get away with that if we were just on the debate stage.”
