🇺🇸🐊⚡️- In a PBS/NPR affiliated WGCU and Florida Trident article, Byron Donalds’ ex wife, Bisa Hall, describes a man who looks nothing like the image he sells. She says he pretended to be Jamaican at FAMU, even using an accent, before later admitting he was actually from New York. For a man now asking American voters for trust, even his own American background was apparently flexible when it suited him.

Hall says he was not religious or conservative when she knew him. He had also registered as a Democrat in Tallahassee, but the bigger issue is what she describes as a pattern of reinvention whenever opportunity called. As she put it, “An opportunistic person like he is will take whatever opportunity they’re given.”

The record is not much better. Donalds was arrested for marijuana possession with intent to distribute, not simple possession as he has described it. He was also arrested on a felony bribery charge, pleaded no contest, and later gave an explanation Hall says does not match what he told her at the time.

Even his Christian conversion story gets challenged. Donalds says he gave his life to Christ while working at Cracker Barrel in 2001. Hall says they were still together then, and still married, but he never mentioned church, faith, or any conversion. In her words, religion “didn’t exist” to him.

Hall also says Erika Lees, the woman who is now his wife, did not know Hall was his wife. She says Donalds tried to get back with her before rushing the divorce after Erika got pregnant, then never repaid divorce fees he promised to cover.

Add the 2024 ethics complaint over undisclosed stock trades, and the picture is not a principled conservative, but of a man who keeps reinventing himself whenever ambition requires it.