The governor gave his most expansive comments yet on the Ukraine crisis, saying the U.S. should focus on crimping Putin's energy markets.
DeSantis ridiculed the Biden administration for acknowledging concerns from environmentalists and halting the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and for opposing oil drilling on federal lands, even though the Biden White House approved more federal permits last year than were issued in President Trump’s first year.DeSantis claimed the U.S. had become energy independent under Trump, which experts dispute.
But DeSantis on Monday came to the defense of his political mentor, blaming the media for spending time during Trump’s four years in office investigating whether he “was some type of agent of Russia.”
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