Disney Is Using Ron DeSantis' Memoir As Evidence In Their Lawsuit Against Him

Ron DeSantis wrote in his recently-published memoir that he had no choice but to go after Disney after they publicly spoke out against his "Don't Say Gay" legislation. And this passage is what Disney is using as concrete evidence that the governor targeted them for retaliation in their lawsuit against him. In fact, in the initial filing, Disney actually mentions the passage as justification for their lawsuit. DeSantis is getting screwed over by his own arrogance, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

You know, for the longest time I had said that Ron DeSantis worries me more than Donald Trump because Ron DeSantis, unlike Donald Trump, is actually competent, right? He's able to do the horrible things that he wants to do versus Donald Trump, who for the most part only talked about them but was never able to accomplish them. May have to take that statement back though, because after going through this lawsuit that Disney has filed against Ron DeSantis, I'm starting to believe this guy's not as competent as I was giving him credit for because as it turns out in this lawsuit that Disney has filed against Ron DeSantis, they specifically pulled passages from his own book and passages from an op-ed he wrote for the Wall Street Journal back in February to prove, to prove that he retaliated against them for speaking out about the don't say gay legislation. That's why he stripped them of their special tax district.

And of course that is why they are suing him. So let me read these passages. And these aren't just passages again from his book. These are passages from his book that Disney mentioned in the lawsuit that they filed. Here it is in promising to work to repeal the bill, the company was pledging a frontal assault on a duly elected law, uh, enacted law of the state of Florida as a consequence of its disfavored speech and petitioning things got worse for Disney. The Disney complaint carefully lays out the DeSantis first Disney timeline, quoting the governor's literary musings on his efforts to rid the company of its special tax district. Quote, I needed to be sure that the legislature would be willing to tackle the potentially thorny issue involving the state's most powerful company. I asked the house speaker Chris Sprouse if he would be willing to do it, and Chris was interested.

Okay, here's the deal. I told him we need to work on this in a very tight circle and there can be no leaks. We need the element of surprise. Nobody can see this coming. Yeah, that totally sounds like something you were doing just because you were tired of their special tax district, right? Oh, you are gonna be screwed over by your own words. So hard and I am so here for it. It gets even worse for Ron because as I mentioned, there was a February Wall Street Journal op-ed, where he said this, when corporations try to use their economic power to take advance, uh, to advance a woke agenda, they become political and not merely economic actors in such an environment. Reflex, uh, reflexively deferring two big business effectively surrenders the political battlefield to the militant left. Leaders must stand up and fight back when big corporations make the mistake as Disney did, of using their economic mite to advance a political agenda. We are making Florida the state where the economy flourishes because we are the state where woke goes to die.

None of that is justification for the legislation that you passed, specifically attacking Disney and only attacking Disney. So that seems like a big problem because all of the words of yours that I just read, you know, aside, I know you used a lot of big words to try to sound smarter than you actually are. Um, to me that's kind of the smoking gun in this situation here, right? Nowhere do you talk about how horrible it is that Disney has this special district, how they have abused their power.