A Miami Republican says she’ll drop a push to have Florida taxpayers help foot former President Donald Trump’s legal fees after Gov. Ron DeSantis came out in opposition to her bill.
State Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Miami, authored a proposal that would grant up to $5 million to the Republican frontrunner, who has been indicted four times.
The bill, filed Jan. 5, doesn’t name-drop the presidential hopeful, but says the funds would be provided to “qualified persons” who have been “subject to political discrimination” to “pay for legal fees incurred as a result of criminal charges brought by a U.S. public entity.”