The Never Trump movement held itself up as morally superior to the pro-Trump GOP.
But they have been slowly exposed as complete phonies.
Now, a Never Trump RINO is under investigation by Florida for this shocking crime.
RINO former Senator Ben Sasse in hot water for spending at the University of Florida
The Never Trump couched its opposition to former President Donald Trump and his supporters behind being principled conservatives who thought the Trump movement was debasing the Republican Party.
RINO former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) was one of the most outspoken GOP critics of Trump during his time in the Senate.
He was one of six Republican Senators who voted to impeach the former President for the January 6 impeachment hoax in 2021.
After it became clear that the establishment was not going to regain control of the Republican Party, Sasse resigned from the Senate in January 2023.
He was named the resident of the University of Florida in February of the year.
Sasse was the former president of Midland University, a small Lutheran college in Nebraska, before he first ran for the Senate in 2014.
He talked a big game about reforming and improving Florida, but left his post as Florida’s president in July citing issues with his wife’s health.
Sasse was hit with a bombshell report about his spending and hiring practices for the university president’s office.
Ben Sasse hires former Senate staffers and balloons his office’s budget
The Alligator, the University of Florida’s student newspaper, uncovered that Sasse tripled the spending for the president’s office during his brief tenure.
In 17 months, he grew his office’s budget from $5.6 million under to previous president to $17.3 million.
Sasse hired former members of his U.S. Senate staff to lucrative remote work jobs and doled out consulting contracts to Republican officials.
James Wegmann, Sasse’s former Senate communications director, was paid $432,000 per year to work remotely from his Washington, D.C. home as the University of Florida’s vice president of communications, one of the college’s highest-paid positions.
Sasse hired his former Senate chief of staff, Raymond Sass, for a newly created vice president for innovation and partnerships position where he was paid $396,000 per year to work remotely.
The former RINO Senator added more members of his Senate staff to the payroll in remote positions, as well as a staffer to U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and the former Tennessee Commissioner of Education.
Travel expenses for the president’s office soared with all these new remote employees.
In his first full fiscal year, travel costs went from a year average of $28,000 under the previous Florida president to $688,000 under Sasse.
Sasse spent $7.2 million on consulting services from McKinsey & Company which was a dramatic increase over what the earlier president had spent.
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis called for an investigation into Sasse’s “exorbitant spending” after The Alligator report came out.
Sasse said in a 2020 town hall that Trump’s family “treated the Presidency like a business opportunity.”
He ended up treating the University of Florida Presidency as a featherbedding opportunity for his former staffers and political insiders.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
