DeSantis REJECTS claims he authorized force-feeding in Guantanamo Bay trends now
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in an interview denied even having the authority to green light force-feeding of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba when he was stationed there – and called reports to that effect wrong.
DeSantis was asked in an interview about 'rumors' that he authorized the practice, which the Pentagon did in fact approve amid hunger strikes for detainees held there for years without trial. It came in a sit-down where he took aim at rival Donald Trump while seeking to walk back his comments that Russia's war on Ukraine was a 'territorial dispute.'
'Yeah, that's not true. Yeah,' DeSantis replied when interviewer Piers Morgan on FOX Nation asked about him authorizing the practice.
Pressed on whether claims were true that he authorized feedings, he added: 'So I was a, I was a junior officer. I didn't have authority to authorize anything. There may have been a commander that would have done feeding if someone was going to die, but that was not something that I would have even had authority to do. During his time at Gitmo in 2006 DeSantis was a Navy Lieutenant as part of it's Judge Advocate General's corps – serving a military lawyer.
'I didn't have authority to authorize anything,' Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in an interview when asked about authorizing force-feeding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay
'So that's that's wrong,' he was asked.
'Yeah, absolutely,' he replied.
His denial followed a Washington Post report on DeSantis' time a Gitmo when he was 27 years old, an aspect of his service he does not stress in his biography (he also was
