Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida would not “assist” in any extradition request from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in “questionable circumstances,” while calling the indictment against former President Trump “un-American” and a “gun weapon” in the legal system’s order to advance a political agenda.”
Former President and 2024 Republican Presidential nominee was charged by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday after a year-long investigation by the Manhattan Attorney’s Office.
“Arming the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head,” DeSantis tweeted Thursday. “That’s un-American.”
TRUMP SAYS DA BRAGGS’ ‘OBSESSION’ WITH TRYING ‘TO GET TRUMP’ WILL ‘FIRE BACK’ AFTER GRAND JURY INdictment
Governor Ron DeSantis, left, and former President Trump, right. (Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney consistently bent the statute to downgrade crimes and condone criminal misconduct,” DeSantis said. “But now he’s expanding the law to target a political opponent.”
DeSantis added, “Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances surrounding this Soros-backed Manhattan attorney and his political agenda.”
TRUMP SUBMITTED AFTER MANHATTAN DA INVESTIGATION FOR SILENCE PAYMENTS
Trump’s primary residence is his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
FILE: Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. Tuesday, November 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
DESANTIS CLAMPS ‘SOROS-FINANCED’ MANHATTAN DA FOR ‘WEAPONING THE OFFICE’ WHILE TRUMP RUMS FLOAT
Trump has been indicted as part of the Manhattan Attorney’s Office’s years-long investigation, possibly with hush money payments.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a news conference following the Trump Organization’s sentencing in the New York Supreme Court, January 13, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Bragg is investigating Trump over hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
These include paying adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 and paying the former Playboy model $150,000 Karen McDougalFox News Digital has learned.
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hush money payments The payments to McDougal and Daniels were uncovered and reported by Fox News in 2018. These payments had been investigated by the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York and by the Federal Election Commission.
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York refrained from charging Trump in connection with the payment to Stormy Daniels in 2019, even though Cohen implicated him in his plea deal. The Federal Electoral Commission also closed its investigation into the matter in 2021.
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