An ex-Gitmo detainee said Ron DeSantis smiled at him as he was being force-fed, per The Daily Beast.
The remarks come from an unaired documentary transcript detailing DeSantis' time as a Navy lawyer.
Ron DeSantis smiled at him from behind a fence while watching him get force-fed, per the Daily Beast.
This stands in stark contrast to a 2018 CBS interview, during which DeSantis told a reporter that JAG legal advisers told Guantanamo Bay commanders that people "can force-feed" and laid out the "kind of the rules for that."
In the Al Jazeera piece, Adayfi said DeSantis wasn't the person who ordered that the hunger strike be broken violently — he just watched.
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