Ron DeSantis: “He wanted my businesses closed.”

“Once he made his pronouncements, you were just supposed to sit there and take it? Well, He wanted my businesses closed. Yes. He wanted local governments to enforce mandates of mask, including having police enforce this. I blocked local governments from doing that. I blocked schools from enforcing mask mandates on kids under our parents bill of rights.” (04:10–04:13)

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