After remaining silent over the weekend, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took shots at the “Soros-funded prosecutor” in Manhattan involved in an ongoing hush money case against former President Donald Trump.
“I have no interest in getting involved in some manufactured circus by some Soros-DA,” DeSantis said at a news conference Monday, referring to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “He’s trying to do a political spectacle. He’s trying to virtue signal for his base. I’ve got real issues I got to deal with here in the state of Florida.”
“I don’t know what’s going to happen but I do know this: the Manhattan district attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor,” he added.
DeSantis accused the district attorney of weaponizing his office by going after Trump, charging that the prosecutor had overlooked other, more recent crimes in the meantime.
But even as he echoed the criticism Trump’s defenders have leveled at Bragg, DeSantis, the strongest challenger to Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, took great care to repeat the salacious allegations facing the former president.
“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair, I just, I can’t speak to that,” DeSantis said, to laughter in the background. Then, referring to the prosecutor again, he added, “That’s an example of pursuing a political agenda.”
The comments came after Trump late last week announced that he expected he would be arrested in the ongoing case in Manhattan on Tuesday. Liberal megadonor George Soros, through the Color of Change PAC, helped back Bragg’s campaign for Manhattan DA.
Trump’s team over the weekend made known their disapproval that DeSantis had not commented.
After DeSantis’ comments Monday, a Trump aide, Jason Miller, tweeted: “Somebody got some polling back.”
Trump allies quickly clapped back on social media over how DeSantis laid out the case.
Source: | This article originally belongs to Nbcnews.com
