Former President of the United States Donald Trumphe wrote on his personal social media account on Saturday. truth social that he is expected to be “arrested Tuesday” in a case of bribing porn star Stormy Daniels not to reveal their private moments, for $130,000, a deal Mr. Trump called “legal fees,” which is a misdemeanor in state of New York.

In his statement yesterday, the Governor of Florida, Ron De Sandys, who is also one of Trump’s top contenders for the GOP nomination although not yet officially running in the 2024 intraparty election, named the Manhattan District Attorney who is handling the scandalous case “funded by Soros” – the infamous billionaire who backed several Democratic candidates parties. He accused him of “using his official position to impose a certain political program on society.”

In doing so, however, she was quick to distance herself from Trump, stating, “I don’t know what to say about the money being given to keep a porn star silent… I refuse to participate in this circus.”

Donald Trump has in recent days accused De Sandys of not taking a stand on his impending arrest.

Former Trump administration vice president Mike Pence spoke out against the US network ABC News’s arrest of the former president, which he called “politically motivated.”

“I am amazed at the idea of ​​putting a former US president on trial at a time when New York City is in the grip of a crime wave,” he said. “The fact that the Manhattan District Attorney is making it his top priority to impeach President Trump, I think says everything you need to know about the radical left in this country,” he added, referring to the fact that U.S. Attorney Alvin Bragg is part of the Democratic Party.

For his part, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called Trump’s possible arrest “a flagrant abuse of power by a radical prosecutor,” while calling for “calm” in response to the former president’s call to his followers to demonstrate if he is arrested. “No, I don’t think we need protests right now,” he said in response to a reporter’s question, contradicting other congressional party members such as Marjorie Taylor Green, who said that American citizens have the right to protest and that TRUMP “Obviously he means peaceful demonstrations.”

If Donald Trump is charged, all formalities will be followed, meaning he will travel from his residence in Mar-a-Lago to New York, where he will stand trial, be fingerprinted, photographed and detained throughout the process.

Although the charge is a misdemeanor, this will be the first time that a former president of the United States faces criminal charges, and the country’s authorities are concerned about possible unrest that his disgruntled followers could cause.