Ron DeSantis Seeks Dismissal Of Disney Lawsuit, Claims Immunity From Litigation

Ron DeSantis plans to do a rare sit down interview with a mainstream news outlet, as he will join CNN’s Jake Tapper on the anchor’s Tuesday show.

Striking writers now have a new punching bag: Bob Iger.

Disney CEO Bob Iger said Marvel Entertainment, whose acquisition in 2009 was a signature deal of Iger’s first stint atop the company, was unfairly “taxed” during the company’s frenzy to supply Disney+ with fresh content.

As Ron DeSantis has made attacks on The Walt Disney Co. a feature of his presidential campaign, CEO Bob Iger responded to one of the Florida governor’s accusations made on the campaign trail: That the company was in favor of the “sexualization of our children.”

The Clay & Buck Show,” the conservative syndicated talk radio show hosted by Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Travis asked the Florida governor if he thinks Disney, which has suffered a still-going streak of box-office failures and down-trending theme park traffic, is being “Bud Light-ed.”“A big article in The Wall Street Journal, the headline is Disney World hasn’t felt this empty in years,” Travis said.

Politico Playbook article titled “Failure to Launch,” which analyzed DeSantis’ stalled campaign from poor polling to fundraising drop-off, Bartiromo asked “What happened?”But according to DeSantis, who burst into laughter during Bartiromo’s questioning, there’s nothing to see in those numbers — it’s all just media “narratives.”“Maria, These are narratives,” DeSantis responded. “The media does not want me to be the nominee. I think that’s very, very clear.

Candace Cameron Bure is reacting to allegations of homophobic behavior on the set of Fuller House from guest star Miss Benny.

Candace Cameron Bure is addressing claims that she attempted to get the first queer character on removed from the show.On Thursday, Miss Benny posted a video to TikTok in which she claimed that she was told «one of the Tanner sisters» wanted to have her role axed back when she was playing Casey during the show's fourth season.«I was on, I played Casey, the first gay character on the franchise,» Miss Benny shared in her post. «One of the Tanner sisters is very publicly 'not for the girls' if that makes sense? [And] I remember I got sat down by the writers and the studio to basically warn me how this person, allegedly, was trying to get the character removed and not have a queer character on the show.»Miss Benny — who never used Bure's name directly in her video — went on to claim, «I was also sort of warned and prepared that this person's fan base might be encouraged to target me specifically.»«So, to this day — despite working on the show every day for two weeks straight — I have only had a conversation with one of the Tanner sisters,» Miss Benny claimed.In response to her TikTok post, Bure released a statement to ET denying that she ever attempted to get the role axed.«I never asked Miss Benny’s character to be removed from  and did not ask the writers, producers or studio executives to have queer characters on the show,» Bure shared in her statement.

labeled a “homophobic” campaign ad using footage from the Netflix series. Their tweet admonishing the 44-year-old Florida governor is currently going viral as fellow candidates accuse him of resorting to “desperate” tactics to get ahead in the Republican primaries.The ad, posted to the pro-DeSantis Twitter account “DeSantis War Room,” depicted rival Donald Trump, 77, making statements in support of the LGBTQ community, including saying that Caitlyn Jenner could use the bathroom of her choice when visiting the White house, and celebrating the inclusion of transgender contestants in beauty pageants.

Peaky Blinders cast and crew have condemned a campaign video promoting Ron DeSantis and his US presidential bid.The video, which uses clips of attractive straight men to illustrate a homophobic narrative, and pokes fun at the moral panic stemming from the Florida governor’s policies, appears to have been made by the right wing media brand Proud Elephant. The @DeSantisWarRoom “rapid response” campaign account on Twitter then retweeted the video.In the video are clips of Cillian Murphy’s character Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders as well as other fictional alpha male types such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort from The Wolf Of Wall Street.

Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy when he unveiled a campaign ad that’s been criticized as an outright attack on the LGBTQ+ community.

is denouncing the use of footage from the show in Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' latest presidential campaign video. The 63-second campaign video, which was originally released June 30 on Twitter, opens with former President Trump voicing his support for the LGBTQ+ community and contrasts it with DeSantis being lambasted for his anti-LGBTQ+ policies alongside various news headlines criticizing the governor. The video includes scenes of well-known fictional Hollywood characters, such as Cillian Murphy's Thomas Shelby in , Brad Pitt's Achilles in , Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort in  and Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman in.

Ethan Shanfeld After Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign shared a bizarre and wildly homophobic video that includes footage of Cillian Murphy’s character in “Peaky Blinders,” the team behind the British crime drama has denounced the video, adding that the footage of the show was “obtained without permission or official license.”pic.twitter.com/o33HL2zMes The video, shared by DeSantis’ campaign on Twitter, slams Donald Trump, a rival Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election, and his efforts to support the LGBTQ community during his presidency. The DeSantis video uses clips of Trump vowing to “protect our LGBTQ citizens,” standing up for Caitlyn Jenner’s right to choose her own bathroom and allowing transgender women to compete in his Miss Universe pageants. The edit, which was first shared by @ProudElephantUS and then reposted to DeSantis’ “Rapid Response” campaign account @DeSantisWarRoom, then pivots to a clip of outwardly queer rapper Tyler, the Creator yelling “Psych!” before boasting DeSantis’ various legislative attacks against the LGBTQ community.

A judge in Delaware Chancery Court has ruled against a shareholder who sued Disney for documents regarding its opposition to Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay law. The decision came as a separate, more sweeping lawsuit moves forward in the state, where Disney has sued Gov. Ron DeSantis for retaliation after the company spoke out against the legislation.

Caitlyn Jenner, the pro-Trump former California Republican gubernatorial candidate and Olympic gold medal winner, is praising GOP 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley‘s apparent multi-pronged attack on transgender Americans, the U.S. Armed Forces, and the Biden administration’s foreign policy – while continuing to adhere to the GOP’s agenda of injecting “communists” into her messaging.“The Chinese Communist Party is building missiles and we’re arguing over gender pronouns.

Attorneys for The Walt Disney Co. and Ron DeSantis are proposing very different timelines for the start of a federal trial over the company’s claim of retaliation by the Florida governor.

Attorneys for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed a motion on Monday to dismiss the Walt Disney Co’s lawsuit against him, claiing it is “meritless” and that the governor has “legislative immunity.”It’s the latest in the legal battle between the Republican presidential hopeful and the studio which began with clashes over Florida’s now-binding “Don’t Say Gay” law and DeSantis’ failed attempts to strip the company’s special district status.“In 1967, a sweetheart deal with the State vested Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (Disney) with unprecedented power to govern itself,” the motion began, referring to the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID). Attorneys went on to bash Disney’s “carte blanche,” writing, “Disney could exercise eminent domain, permitting it to annex territory even outside the District’s borders, all without legislative approval.

post in which the former president said he was able to “kill Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone.” “Yeah,” Pelosi replied, “because, first of all, it’s an hypocrisy of the first order. But without going into his, shall we say, inconsistencies, to use a gentler word, yeah, that’s what he’s saying.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suffered his third high-profile legal setback in the past month today as Judge Gregory A. Presnell of the Federal District Court in Orlando issued a preliminary injunction blocking a new DeSantis-backed law that prohibits businesses from allowing children to attend “adult performances.” DeSantis signed the bill into law just last month.

rule prohibiting Medicaid from covering the cost of gender-affirming medical treatments that assist a transgender-identifying person in transitioning.The rule, approved last August by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, applies to treatments sought out by both minors and adults, declaring that transition-related treatments do not “meet the definition of medical necessity” to qualify for coverage under Medicaid.The rule was passed as Florida officials have sought to crack down on all forms of LGBTQ visibility, including passing a law blocking transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming treatments.Under the administration of Republican Gov.