LETTER: DeSantis chose to turn a blind eye, now that is 'nauseating'

So Gov. Ron DeSantis on Jan. 6 said he found the news media coverage of the one-year anniversary of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of presidential power through the ratification of the 2020 Electoral College vote as “nauseating.”

Not the violent attack on Capitol Police, the news media, nor the congressional members meeting to affirm Joe Biden’s election victory. No — the governor found the remembrance of that horrible day something he found “nauseating.”

Let us recall: In 2004, while still a student at Harvard Law School, DeSantis was at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Dallas, Texas, where he raised his right hand and swore the oath that all U.S. Navy officers utter when receiving their commissions in the naval service: “I, Ronald Dion DeSantis, do solemnly swear that I will defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true allegiance to the same ...”

On Jan. 18, 2019, as newly elected governor of Florida, he raised his right hand and said: “I do solemnly swear that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States and of the state of Florida …”

Having dropped anchor in the far-right fringe of the Republican Party, where fealty to Trump’s lies is mandatory for membership, DeSantis has chosen to turn a blind eye to the threat posed to our Constitution — on Jan. 6, 2021, and each day thereafter — by the disgraced former president and his band of thugs.

Now that’s nauseating.

—Ed Offley, Panama City Beach

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