Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responded in an interview that aired Thursday evening to two recent salacious media stories that claimed he ate pudding with his bare hands and that he authorized force feeding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

The Daily Beast reported last week that an anonymous source claimed that DeSantis once “enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert” on a private jet “by eating it with three of his fingers.”

DeSantis made the remarks during an interview on Fox Nation with Piers Morgan, who mocked the report as being ridiculous.

“It was a very serious allegation,” Morgan said sarcastically. “In fact, I congratulated the journalist who broke it on the new ‘Watergate.’ But I have to put it to you, Governor. Have you ever eaten a chocolate pudding with three fingers?”

After laughing at the story, DeSantis responded, “I don’t remember ever doing that. I’m telling you. Maybe when I was a kid.”

“You know, there’s a lot of people when they go at you, sometimes they have like really good ammunition, like you’re a crook, you did this, you did that,” DeSantis continued. “For me, they’re talking about pudding like, is that really the best you got? Okay, bring it on.”

WATCH: DeSantis asked about "scandal" of purportedly eating pudding with three fingers

"Maybe when I was a kid […] Sometimes they have really good ammunitation […] For me, they're talking about pudding? Like, is that really the best you got? Ok, bring it on!" pic.twitter.com/2wU5h9APrk

— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) March 23, 2023

DeSantis responded to a report from The Washington Post that suggested he had some kind of a role in force feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay by saying that the report was false.

“One of the things they said was that you authorized the use of force feeding [for detainees who were on hunger strike],” Morgan responded.

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“That’s not true,” DeSantis immediately fired back. “So I was a junior officer, I didn’t have authority to authorize anything. There may have been a commander that would have done feeding if someone was going to die. But that was not something that I would have even had authority to do.”

When asked again if the report was wrong, DeSantis responded: “Yeah, absolutely.”

WATCH: DeSantis denies allegations of authorizing force-feeding at Guantanamo Bay

"That's not true. Yeah, that's not true […] I was a junior officer. I didn't have the authority to authorize anything. pic.twitter.com/aKOC8SyjFM

— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) March 23, 2023

The Senate Ethics Committee issued a Public Letter of Admonition on Thursday after finding that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) repeatedly violated Senate Rules and “related standards of conduct by soliciting campaign contributions in a federal building.”

The Committee launched an investigation after receiving a formal complaint alleging that Graham solicited campaign donations for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker during a media interview that was conducted in the Russell Senate Office Building on November 30, 2022. At that time, Walker was in a runoff race against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).

“The Committee further concluded that during your discussion of the senatorial run-off election, you directly solicited campaign contributions on behalf of Mr. Walker’s campaign committee … five separate times,” the Committee said in a letter to Graham. “Your actions on November 30, 2022, represented a repeat violation of Senate standards of conduct.”

“On October 14, 2020, immediately following a Judiciary Committee hearing, you engaged in an unplanned media interview in the Dirksen Senate Office Building,” the letter continued. “In response to a reporter’s question regarding your reelection campaign fundraising, you directly solicited campaign contributions for your campaign committee. While the Committee concluded your conduct violated Senate standards of conduct, it considered several mitigating factors, and in accordance with the Committee’s Rules of Procedure, determined your conduct was ‘inadvertent, technical, or otherwise of a de minimis nature.’ On March 8, 2021, the Committee dismissed the complaint and notified you of the Committee’s findings and action by private letter.”

The Committee said that ethical standards that U.S. senators are held to are “a responsibility both broader than and distinct from criminal law.”

“The specific prohibition on campaign solicitation in federal buildings and the restrictions on the use of official resources for campaign activity have been consistent and clear throughout your years of Senate service, and the Committee is confident the Senate community understands this standard and its rationale,” the letter said. “Applying this standard to your conduct, the Committee finds that you did solicit federal campaign contributions and otherwise impermissibly conducted campaign activity in a federal building.”

The Committee said that Graham’s decision to solicit campaign funds in a federal building, despite already being warned, resulted in “harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate.”

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“You are hereby admonished,” the letter concluded.