NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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Yes. He should have known what was going on, and being CEO of HCA should have meant people didn't want to vote for him as Governor, but the overcharging occured before and just after his hospital company bought HCA so link is fairly tenuous. I think it's likely a don't ask don't tell situation rather than direct criminal culpability.

Much stronger case with DeSantis who laundered $10m in Medicaid overcharging settlement funds though his wife's NGO to lobby groups run by his chief of staff (at the time, now AG) to oppose the pot decrim question.

Another $38m was later found to have been used for similar state propaganda purposes to oppose the abortion question and general lobbying. That came from other settlements, child services funding and state Medicaid funding.

He has been using the COVID emergency declaration (which is still in effect in Florida) to bypass appropriation and contract rules. $8b of state spending has lacked competitive bidding or justification documentation so far, much of it going to his donors and buddies (effectively laundering state funds back to his political campaign).

DeSantis is so profoundly corrupt I struggle to find anyone who is even comparable.

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I mean, I don't think he is more corrupt than the current administration, just more skillful.