![]() A Showtime representative told The Hollywood Reporter that they "don't comment on scheduling decisions." The television network also did not explain why the episode was dropped.ĭeSantis has denied participating in or authorizing the force feeding of people imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Showtime pulled the documentary before it was slated to air on May 28, per The Hollywood Reporter. "You cannot forget that because those people left really bad scars in your soul." "I cannot forget when he was there watching us with the force-feeding," he said. ![]() "While being you, screaming and shouting and bleeding and like, throwing up and shitting on yourself, and someone is smiling at you? You cannot forget that," Adayfi continued.Īdayfi added in the documentary interview that he came across DeSantis' photo years later, and saw his name. "As I'm looking at you now, I could see them standing behind the fence, watching and looking at us," Adayfi said, per the transcript, adding that DeSantis was "smiling." DeSantis, who was then a US Navy lawyer, was providing legal advice to the detention center. Adayfi now lives in Serbia.Īdayfi said he first met DeSantis in 2006 when the Florida Republican went to Guantanamo along with several groups who'd "arrived to bring the camp under control." At the time, Adayfi and the other detainees were on a hunger strike to protest against their imprisonment, per Adayfi's account. The Daily Beast reported on Saturday that they obtained a verified transcript of an unaired VICE documentary titled "The Guantanamo Candidate." This included an interview with a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, who was suspected of being an al Qaeda operative before his release in 2016. Ron DeSantis smiled at him from behind a fence while watching him get force-fed, per the Daily Beast. "I cannot forget when he was there watching us with the force-feeding," the ex-detainee said.Īn ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee says he remembers, to this day, how Florida Gov. ![]() The remarks come from an unaired documentary transcript detailing DeSantis' time as a Navy lawyer. Michael Reaves via Getty ImagesĪn ex-Gitmo detainee said Ron DeSantis smiled at him as he was being force-fed, per The Daily Beast. Ron DeSantis at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. ![]()
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