Governor Ron DeSantis went on Fox News this morning and responded to Trump’s COVID attack from yesterday’s Hugh Hewitt show.

Here’s the video:

DeSantis said Trump’s claim about Florida having the 3rd worst numbers during COVID was nonsense. He’s absolutely right about that.

When asked about limiting beaches to 10 people in April of 2020 and allowing local authorities to choose who goes on the beaches, he said that he’s never denied following the CDC guidance in the early weeks of the pandemic. But it was then that he began looking at the data himself and said he soon charted a different course. This is why Trump’s attacks are so deceptive. Nearly every governor closed down their states in the early days of the pandemic. But it was DeSantis who quickly began opening his state back up and took a lot of heat for it. Why doesn’t Trump talk about that?

But then DeSantis hit Trump for running ads in 2020 promoting Fauci and then giving Fauci a presidential commendation on his last day in office. You’ll notice Trump doesn’t talk about that either.

DeSantis also spoke about defending himself from the leftist attack yesterday about the racist shooting in Jacksonville: