Rick Scott

Instead, he frequently divulged the gory details of his crimes.

The letters that Gore wrote, which included such gruesome information, helped to push Florida Governor Rick Scott to set a concrete execution date as he showed such little care for his victims and the wrongdoings he'd committed.

Fred Waterfield is currently 71 and still in prison.

He reportedly maintains his innocence to this day.

And Debra mentioned this in her newscast.

Rick Scott, who we've had on the show a couple of times, is the Republican senator from Florida.

And he went off on Bass and Newsom.

They have, for almost a year, refused to turn over documents relating to the Palisades fire.

Exactly.

Rick Scott next.

Hey, Rick Scott-

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... his company drained, you know, millions, maybe billions out of Medicaid.

And they're kind of the same questions over and over again.

And then I will go and I will say, I look back, I remember the 2014 debate with Charlie Criss versus Rick Scott.

Charlie, remember this was the battle about whether or not there could be a fan on the stage? Yeah.

And Rick Scott would not come back onto the stage.

It was this whole thing.

And you would have thought, wait a second, Charlie Chris is one.

Rick Scott has totally embarrassed himself.

Now, obviously, that's not what happened.

So Trump's name has been reduced to a line of like a list at the bottom of endorsements.

And he's just mixed in there with like Elon Musk and Rick Scott and Ted Cruz and all that.

and now, uh, Lieutenant governor, uh, Jay Collins, uh, has endorsed Byron Donald.

So, you know,

Oh, what about this, this video of this and this video of that? The grainy stuff that they released that they've already admitted was edited, they've already admitted it was edited.

All right, let me show you this Rick Scott video.

I don't care, Aaron, y- a matter of fact, you guys can just mute it because I don't care what he's saying.

I'll tell you what he's saying here.

Rick Scott, you can just play it side by side.

So here's Rick Scott talking, right? Now, isn't it strange, wouldn't it be odd if he had a UK flag in his background?

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A giant UK flag because, again, I'm not anti-Inter- Israel any more than I'm anti anybody who's against the United States, which they are.

Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at backgroundbriefing.org. I'm Ian Masters and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with Vice President Vance proudly announcing the Trump administration has stripped 760,000 enrollees of Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, in the name of combating fraud, when the real fraudsters are the Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott, whose health care company paid the largest Medicare fraud settlement of $1.7 billion, and Trump just pardoned a fraudster who stole $2 billion from Medicare.

We discussed this administration's deliberate cruelty in denying health care and food assistance to our neediest neighbors by creating phony headlines that imply social safety net programs are full of fraud and need to be cut so Trump and Vance can offset the cuts by giving tax breaks to their billionaire donors.

Joining us is Alex Lawson, the Executive Director of Social Security Works, where his work focuses on protecting and expanding Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and lowering prescription drug prices.

Well, thanks for joining us.

And J.D. Vance, Vice President, just announced that the Trump administration were ejecting 760,000 people from Obamacare, claiming fraud and saying that this measure would save the government $2.2 billion.

What they're not saying is that Trump just pardoned a Medicare fraudster who stole $2 billion from Medicare, and former Governor Rick Scott, now Senator from Florida, he settled Medicare fraud that he was responsible for for $1.7 billion some time back, and obviously pocket a lot as well.

So where are the real fraudsters? As far as I can tell, they're going after people.

He got rid of affirmative action, cut the state workforce.

Governor Scott got all of our jobs back that had been lost under Charlie Crist.

Governor DeSantis won every culture war imaginable.

How is Florida different eight years from now after the leadership of Byron Donalds?

We want them to have multiple pathways towards personal success so they can build that Florida dream that you've come to know, I've come to know, and so many others.

We want them to be able to build that for themselves.

So it's about building on the success of Governor Bush and Scott and DeSantis while preparing Florida for the future.

And that's our plans as Florida's next governor.