Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primary as a frontrunner in the coming months, responded Monday to former President Donald Trump’s claim that he may be indicted this week.

Instead of directly defending Trump, DeSantis slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is leading the Trump probe, without mentioning the prosecutor by name. He claimed that Bragg is supported by George Soros, a billionaire Democratic donor. “I have not seen any facts yet,” DeSantis said. “And so I don’t know what’s going to happen. But I do know this: the Manhattan district attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor. He, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.”

DeSantis did not mention Trump by name, but briefly touched on the allegation the former President is expected to be indicted for: paying adult film star Stormy Daniels back in 2016 to keep quiet about claims that Trump had an affair with her. “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” DeSantis said. “I just—I can’t speak to that.”

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