DeSantis Scrambles To Cover His Tracks After Incriminating Video UNCOVERED

Ron DeSantis is exposed by an unearthed video of his describing his relation to the hunger strike torture of Guantánamo Bay prisoners. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report.

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DeSantis Says He Advised on Guantánamo Torture in Unearthed Video

"More news outlets are looking into the time that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) spent at Guantánamo Bay as a Navy lawyer, and what they’re finding is not good.

Guantánamo is the Cuban naval base that the U.S. government used after 9/11 to detain and torture suspected terrorists—many of whom hadn’t been charged with a crime—and the likely presidential contender served there for several months in 2006 when he was 27. Previous stories alleged that DeSantis personally witnessed the force-feeding of detainees who were engaging in hunger strikes, a vicious practice that multiple human rights organizations have deemed torture.

Now, a Washington Post deep dive on DeSantis’s time as a legal adviser at Gitmo found that the majority of his service was ensuring legal procedures were followed during detention and interrogation (that is, making sure the torture was done correctly). The report unearthed a local news interview DeSantis gave in 2018 during his first run for governor where he talked about the legality of force feeding—where detainees were strapped into chairs and the military shoved a plastic tube down their nose—in striking terms. DeSantis suggested hunger strikes were a tactic of “jihad” rather than one of the only ways detainees could protest their indefinite detention."

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