Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, saying he had brought 'a flimsy indictment' against Trump.
, who has repeatedly clashed with Trump and who's considered a strong contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
"And then he turns around, does a flimsy indictment against a former president of the United States. All these legal gymnastics to act like this is a felony—when almost every other time, he's trying to take the felonies and downgrade them," the governor said. "The unprecedented indictment of a former president of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an outrage," Pence toldon March 30."And it appears to millions of Americans to be nothing more than a political prosecution that's driven by a prosecutor who literally ran for office on a pledge to indict the former president."
Trump issued a statement following Pence's remarks saying, in part:"I was right and everyone knows it. If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send these votes back to the legislatures to figure it out."