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Ron DeSantis slammed after Fox News anchor Sean Hannity shares clip of him pledging to use 'deadly force' at border

Sean Hannity posted about Ron DeSantis’ latest interview with Norah O’Donnell, where she asked him about his planned actions against Mexican cartels

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Fox News anchor Sean Hannity posted a recent interview of Ron DeSantis with ‘CBS Evening News’ host Norah O’Donnell on Wednesday, September 13, in which the Florida Governor reportedly claimed of using "deadly force" to stop cartels at the border.

This came after the GOP candidate recently pledged to send US Special Forces into Mexico to confront drug cartels if he is elected POTUS. During the GOP presidential debate, when asked if he would support sending Special Forces into Mexico, DeSantis answered, "Yes, and I will do it on day one." 

Sean Hannity posts about Ron DeSantis reportedly using 'deadly force' at border

Sean Hannity took to X (formerly Twitter) to post about Ron DeSantis' latest interview with Norah O’Donnell, where she asked him about his action against Mexican cartels.

Hannity’s tweet read, "DeSANTIS: "I’m going to have the military at the border, 100%. I mean, if they’re trying to break through the wall, we will have deadly force authorized to be able to stop that"." 

He also attached an article from its official website titled, "CARTELS IN THE CROSSHAIRS: DeSantis Says He Will Greenlight U.S. Military to Use Deadly Force [WATCH]."

In the article from Hannity, there is a clip of an interview where O’Donnell questions DeSantis, "Would you commit US troops to taking out these Mexican cartels?" to which he replied, "We are going to lean in, and we are going to defend our country."

DeSantis continued, "And so I was at the border in Arizona. So there was one part where there was a stretch of wall. These guys are working on the base of the wall. I'm like, what are you doing? They're like, well, we're repairing it. I'm like, what happened? The cartels can cut through."

"I mean, these are big steel beams, and they're cutting through, and yet they're being allowed to come into our country. They got backpacks on with Fentanyl and all this stuff. So in those situations, yes, we will have deadly force authorized," added the Florida Governor. 

When O’Donnell further asked, "Would you send missiles into Mexico?" DeSantis said, "We would use all available tactics, I think, can be debated. If you have something you want to accomplish, people will brief you on the different ways to be able to do it. So that would be dependent on the situation." 

Internet reacts to Ron DeSantis' claim of using 'deadly force' at border

After Sean Hannity’s post, people were quick to slam the Florida Governor.

One person wrote, "Why does anyone interview him? He's toast," and another added, "DeSantis is done. TRUMP 2024!!"

A person said, "I just can't seem to believe him..there are things he can do now in the position he is and don't see him doing it."

Another stated, "DeSANTIS is done!!! Let's move on," and one more called him out, saying, "He might want to read the US constitution first." 

One compared DeSantis with Donald Trump and wrote, "He is trying to pretend he,s a younger Trump...He is such a Dweeb."