The threat comes one day after the Florida governor ended his presidential campaign.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ® on Monday indicated he would veto a bill that would give up to $5 million in taxpayer money to Donald Trump to help pay his extensive legal fees.

DeSantis, who ended a bitter campaign against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Sunday, shared a story about the bill on X, along with his veto comments:

The “Florida Freedom Fighters Fund” bill, introduced earlier this month by State Sen. Ileana Garcia ®, would offer cash to Florida residents running for president who are charged with crimes and are “victims of political discrimination.”

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    10 months ago

    What kind of idiot do you have to be to send millions of state funds to one rich individual? That legislature should go jump in a swamp.

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      Consider how comprehensively corrupt and anti-democratic the legislature as a whole has to be for this sort of blatantly heinous shit to even make it to the governor’s desk in the first place.

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        10 months ago

        This has to be the first fucking thing Ron has done that I respect too.

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      10 months ago

      Especially since for trumps situation, five million is nothing.

      His legal bills are a hell of a lot more.

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        10 months ago

        Pfft. The amount doesn’t matter when he has no intention of paying them anyway.