Ron DeSantis of Florida may well be America's best governor. He's made Florida a reliably red state when it was, not long ago, a swing state. Twenty-five years ago, during the 2000 election, it was the swing state, and if Ralph Nader had the brains of a '59 Dodge hubcap, to this day, he won't show his face at any gathering of Democrats in Florida.

And on Thursday, DeSantis went medieval on a reporter whining about the rounding up of illegal aliens.

🚨 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just absolutely SAVAGED a fake news reporter who claimed ICE is deporting American citizens.

"Who are you from?"

"You seem to have NO sympathy for people that have been victimized by illegal aliens!"

"What about people who have someone driving… pic.twitter.com/Ih7a4Eski4

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 1, 2025

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"What about people who have someone driving drunk and k*lls American citizen? What about people that have been deported previously and let in under Biden who then commit s*xual offenses or commit homicides, and then we have more victims as a result of the federal government's previous inattention and unwillingness to enforce the law."

"Let's just be clear. Who are YOU fighting for? We're fighting for the citizens of Florida."

"I think a lot of these narratives that I hear to me just instinctively, I think they're fake narratives, because I've seen it happen so many times. But I will let folks at ICE respond to your accusation."

The reporter in question, of course, wasn't fighting for Florida or America. Who she is advocating for is simple: People who are in the country illegally, people who remain in the country as fugitives from the law, people who prey on innocent Americans. She and many in the legacy media are advocating for foreign gang members and terrorists who have infiltrated across our borders and who now are hiding in our cities, in our communities, planning... What? Nobody knows.

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What's really baffling is that the unnamed reporter asked the governor to comment on ICE deporting American citizens who have shown birth certificates. Governor DeSantis stated, flatly, that he did not believe this was happening, although the reporter may have been talking about minor children being removed with their illegal alien parents, at the parents' request. And, of course, had the parents not been granted this request, the left would have shrieked about the Trump administration breaking up families.

These people clearly don't care about the law or the well-being of American citizens, especially not the citizens who live in places like Aurora, Colorado, where illegal alien gang members have literally taken over apartment buildings.

In this case, though, Ron DeSantis showed he can handle the biased legacy media. He flatly refuses to accept their false premises. He doesn't give them an inch of leeway in throwing their assertions back in their faces. He answers forcefully, completely, passionately, and most of all, accurately.

I will not in the least bit surprised if, one day, we are writing about President DeSantis. Maybe, say, after President Vance's second term.

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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