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Ron DeSantis: “I mean, that may have been the initial pretext.”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2014
I mean, that may have been the initial pretext.
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Ron DeSantis
Florida

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DeSantis suggests that the rationale for intervention evolved into regime change.

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