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Hedge fund investor and billionaire Bill Ackman<\/a> is in agreement with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> on former President Donald Trump\u2019s guilty verdict on Thursday<\/a>: This was a leftist gotcha.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a post on X, the CEO of $11 billion hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management wrote: \u201cI think any objective person would have to agree with Gov. Ron DeSantis here.\u201d Trump was found guilty of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in the first degree. In a statement after the verdict, Trump alleged the trial was rigged, in addition to alleging that New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the case, was biased against him. After the verdict, Trump declared himself \u201ca very innocent man.\u201d<\/p>\n According to DeSantis, the historic outcome is the result of \u201cleftist prosecutor\u201d Alvin Bragg, \u201ca partisan judge,\u201d and \u201ca jury reflective of one of the most liberal enclaves in America.\u201d DeSantis is referring to New York City, where Trump\u2019s six-week trial was held and where Ackman\u2019s hedge fund is headquartered. DeSantis previously ran against Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary before he dropped out and backed him. DeSantis is also a Harvard Law School graduate who served as a military lawyer and federal prosecutor.<\/p>\n After the verdict, DeSantis wrote that the case was a decade old and the fact that it was even brought to trial \u201cis a testament to the political debasement of the justice system in places like New York City.\u201d He said that Bragg \u201croutinely\u201d shrugs off criminal behavior in a way that endangers New Yorkers, as evidence of his effort to \u201cget\u201d Trump with the falsified business records case.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is often said that no one is above the law, but it is also true that no one is below the law,\u201d DeSantis wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cIf the defendant were not Donald Trump, this case would never have been brought, the judge would have never issued similar rulings, and the jury would have never returned a guilty verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n He closed by writing that the rule of law in this country should be applied in a level way and \u201cnot become captive to the political agenda of some kangaroo court.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n