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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took aim at the Manhattan district attorney Monday over his expected prosecution of a hush money case against former President Donald Trump.
The Republican governor slammed DA Alvin Bragg as a “Soros-funded prosecutor,” referring to Democratic campaign backer George Soros, but offered little in defense of Trump, who is currently the front-runner in the Republican presidential primary field. DeSantis is widely expected to be gearing up for his own bid to be the party’s nominee in 2024.
“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 at a news conference, prompting laughter from the audience.
“But what I can speak to is if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda,” he said.
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