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Rep. Byron Donalds (R‑FL) has been an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump in his presidential campaign and has been eyed as a possible running mate for Trump, but Donalds was not always an ally.
Donalds criticized Trump several times in 2011 and 2012, according to a report from CNN, even posting “Thank God!” on Facebook when Trump announced he would not run in the 2012 presidential race.
“Trump is a huge distraction, and cares more about himself than the country in my opinion, but I could care less about him,” Donalds wrote in a Facebook post in April 2011, per the report.
Many of Donalds’s comments about Trump came when the New York businessman was making headlines for being skeptical about then-President Barack Obama’s place of birth and questioning his birth certificate.
“Trump is a self …