I took a quick look at his education and military service as reported in his Wiki, and it raises enough red flags to now make me think he's more or less an Intelligence asset.
He graduates from Yale, then:
He subsequently attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor cum laude.
Then a section break and the very next sentence is:
In 2004, during his second year at Harvard Law, DeSantis was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy and assigned to the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG). He completed Naval Justice School in 2005.
So let's get this straight: Ron is on track for one of the top slots in the Establishment, then he just decides to bail halfway through Harvard Law and join the Navy? BTW, somehow this law student has enough pull for a direct commission.
But then again, maybe that's not a problem because Harvard just decides to spot him a year and a half of law school and give him a JD anyway? (From my read, the Naval Justice School is not a law school that the military runs, but a school of military law separate and apart from any civilian law education.)
So then he's assigned to GTMO, which at the time was a CIA nest, and we're told:
The records of DeSantis's service in the U.S. Navy were often redacted upon release to the public
He's supposed to have worked protecting the rights of terrorists. Ron does not strike me as a man of principle, and this does not strike me as a move any aspiring politician could think would have public appeal.
Then he deploys as legal advisor to SEAL Team One in Iraq. I find this also very suspect. A bunch of trained killers in a war zone needs on-site legal advice? They barely caught up with those civvie contractors years and years after the Nisour Square Massacre. And anyway, can't they just get on the phone?
And speaking of his activities there, we're told:
During his military career, DeSantis has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal....
What does a Navy lawyer do, exactly to deserve that kind of hardware? A heroic briefing? A meritorious filing?
Once again, I'm stunned at what they leave laying around on Wiki, and once again, I realize only a handful actually read it and no one demands it make any sense.
I took a quick look at his education and military service as reported in his Wiki, and it raises enough red flags to now make me think he's more or less an Intelligence asset.
He graduates from Yale, then:
Then a section break and the very next sentence is:
So let's get this straight: Ron is on track for one of the top slots in the Establishment, then he just decides to bail halfway through Harvard Law and join the Navy? BTW, somehow this law student has enough pull for a direct commission.
But then again, maybe that's not a problem because Harvard just decides to spot him a year and a half of law school and give him a JD anyway? (From my read, the Naval Justice School is not a law school that the military runs, but a school of military law separate and apart from any civilian law education.)
So then he's assigned to GTMO, which at the time was a CIA nest, and we're told:
He's supposed to have worked protecting the rights of terrorists. Ron does not strike me as a man of principle, and this does not strike me as a move any aspiring politician could think would have public appeal.
Then he deploys as legal advisor to SEAL Team One in Iraq. I find this also very suspect. A bunch of trained killers in a war zone needs on-site legal advice? They barely caught up with those civvie contractors years and years after the Nisour Square Massacre. And anyway, can't they just get on the phone?
And speaking of his activities there, we're told:
What does a Navy lawyer do, exactly to deserve that kind of hardware? A heroic briefing? A meritorious filing?
Once again, I'm stunned at what they leave laying around on Wiki, and once again, I realize only a handful actually read it and no one demands it make any sense.