DeSantis Continues To Make It About Him

“Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.” - Immanuel Kant https://t.co/hMis0DV9Me

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 22, 2022

WOW. It gets even worse. “Perla” lied to dozens more asylum seekers, put them up in a hotel for days with false claims about jobs and housing, and when DeSantis suddenly cancelled the Delaware flight yesterday, she dumped some back at the shelter and stranded the others. https://t.co/TGhia9pEAI pic.twitter.com/QCY2CpGr7p

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) September 22, 2022

Aaaand one migrant at the shelter got “Perla” ON VIDEO cruising around the shelter and “recruiting” people for DeSantis’s stunt with lies.

She was driving around in a comically conspicuous black SUV and acting so sketchy a random guy at the shelter started recording her. pic.twitter.com/AtU73lZgZq

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) September 22, 2022

One 19-year-old, a kid, was out in the streets when “Perla” gave him somewhere to sleep and promised him a better future.

He told the Herald that her deception left him devastated: "I want to cry because I feel hopeless. I have nothing. How do I work? How do I survive?" pic.twitter.com/1MEOiioGOY

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) September 22, 2022

When DeSantis cancelled the flight yesterday and “Perla” got a bus to dump people back at the shelter, not everyone got told.

“‘They left and that was it,’ [Luis Oswaldo] said. ‘They didn't give out more food. I have water from the lobby.’

‘I'm 'eating' water now,’ he said.” pic.twitter.com/oqaxFiPsUx

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) September 22, 2022

DeSantis is giving the Bexar (pronounced "Bear" in Texas, if you're wondering) County  Sheriff more to investigate, but the new question is: why did he cancel the flight?  And why is he so committed to San Antonio?

Especially when he’s getting so much resistance from behind:

Begun, the Trump-DeSantis war has. https://t.co/oLJEDcxlra

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 22, 2022

Yeah, but:

His father in law proposed the same thing 3 years ago https://t.co/2gSQpJgk07

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 22, 2022

Which just makes it even more fun.