Trump Supporter Rails Against DeSantis After He's Charged With Voter Fraud

A Florida man who was arrested for voter fraud and forgery last week is blaming Ron DeSantis for his situation. DeSantis set up his "election force" police to crack down on voter fraud in the state, and now it looks like he's having to take his own Republican voters to court. The man is accused of signing his deceased father's name on a ballot in order to cast a vote for Trump - the man himself was already forbidden from voting due to a felony conviction over a decade ago. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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

Well, folks, another day, another Trump supporter arrested for voter fraud. Although technically this Trump supporter was arrested last week for voter fraud, it is still another Trump supporter arrested for voter fraud. This time in the state of Florida. According to reports, a man from the villages signed his dead father's absentee vote ballot, uh, forged his signature, sent it in according to the reports, and it was postmarked four days after this man's father died. So your dad just died. I don't even know at this point because it's only been four days. Sometimes you don't even have a funeral that quickly. So your dad could still be sitting in the frigging morgue and you're like, well, daddy would've wanted this. Let me fill out his ballot and vote for Trump for him. I'll just sign his name. And then allegedly sent it in, right? That's according to the, you know, police report.

That's what happened. But this man, he's not taking this lying down because this man is now blaming Ron DeSantis. 'cause again, this happened in Florida. He's blaming Ron DeSantis for, you know, trying to take out a Trump voter because as we all know, Ron DeSantis created his little election police that are supposed to go out there and really crack down on voter fraud and get all these people out, right? Um, and as I said at the time when this first passed, was like, yeah, you better be careful bud, 'cause you're gonna end up getting more Republicans than Democrats with it. And sure as hell, I've been proven right once again. And this man, by the way, again, is. And here's what he said. He didn't interview with the Associated Press. The alleged voter fraudster said this. There is a lot of politics that goes on here in Sumter County, and they don't like the fact that I don't follow their system.

Well, well, yeah. That's actually why, why you got arrested. 'cause you didn't, you didn't follow their system. Um, because their, their system, as you call it, is law. And you didn't follow the law according to the reports. You're now facing charges of both felony forgery of a public record and voter fraud. So they didn't like that. I don't play by their rules. No, those rules are laws. Okay, you're not some rogue cop trying to uns like solve murder. No, you're just some lunatic who's like, I want an extra vote for Donald Trump in 2020. So you filled out your dead dad's ballot and sent it in. Allegedly again, he has not been convicted, is all alleged. But he's blaming rhon, DeSantis. 'cause you know, he doesn't play by their rules. Unfortunately. Rules are rules and laws are laws, and there is a bit of a difference between the two things,

because if you break a law, you're going to be arrested for it, most likely if you get caught. Now, the question is, why did this guy even need to vote for his dead dad anyway? Wasn't his one vote enough? Well, turns out about a decade ago, this guy was actually arrested on felony fraud charges. Uh, he had defrauded people. What is this? He was convicted a decade ago in federal court in Connecticut of orchestrating a $20 million real estate flipping scheme and has still been paying restitution to dozens of victims.