Allegations that Ron DeSantis force-fed an inmate at Guantanamo Bay don't check out because he was just a low-level grunt at the time, ex-colonel says

• A former Guantanamo detainee alleges that Ron DeSantis force-fed him while he was on a hunger strike.
• But Ron DeSantis was a junior officer as a Navy lawyer at the time.
• An ex-colonel told the New York Times that DeSantis would have been stuck doing grunt work.

A former Guantanamo detainee has repeatedly claimed that Ron DeSantis force-fed him when he was a lawyer in the US Navy — but a retired US colonel says the allegation doesn't add up because DeSantis was "too junior" at the time to be involved in the treatment of inmates.