Thomas Massie, Ron DeSantis joke about former Surgeon General getting 'fired'
During a rally in Decorah, Iowa, a key Ron DeSantis endorser made light of the Florida Governor’s removal of his former Surgeon General from a press conference during the pandemic but misrepresented his job status.
“One of the most beautiful things I ever saw happen was when he fired his surgeon general in Florida who was in favor of keeping up the lockdown measures, the masking and the distancing and all that, literally, he was removed from a press conference middle of contradicting the governor. And that’s what we needed to see in the White House,” Rep. Thomas Massie said about Dr. Scott Rivkees in Decorah on Friday.
The former Surgeon General was not fired, contrary to Massie’s assertion...
