Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is accusing one of his Republican rivals of collusion.

In a statement on Tuesday, Trump’s campaign took aim at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and accused his campaign of working with the Justice Department.

The campaign shared the statement on Twitter and wrote, “Unholy Alliance: DeSantis Campaign Colluding with Biden’s Weaponized DOJ to Stop President Trump and the MAGA Movement.”

“From inception, the DeSantis campaign was doomed. Beginning with a total failure to launch, Ron Desantis has warmly embraced establishment RINOs and Never Trumpers,” the statement claimed.

It continued, “Amid yet another failed reboot, DeSantis and his establishment handlers have resorted to directly parroting the talking points of radical Leftists. When Ron DeSanctimonious was most recently summoned before donors to explain his flailing campaign, his top lieutenants admitted to lighting donor money on fire.”

The statement went on:

“Though, even more telling, a top DeSantis fundraiser confessed that their ‘strategy’ relied on endless political prosecutions of President Trump by radical Leftist prosecutors. As the DeSantis campaign continues to utterly collapse, Ron has shown he’s willing to take the side of deranged Marxist prosecutors and the radical Left for any shot at stopping the nose dive that has left him in third place, heading only south.”

Read the statement below:

In March, Trump was indicted in connection to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation of hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. He entered a plea of not guilty in that case.

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In the wake of the indictment, DeSantis defended the former president as he tweeted, “The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American. The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent.”

Trump was also indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith in June for allegedly mishandling classified documents. He has insisted he is innocent in the case.

After that indictment, DeSantis also defended the former president as he wrote on Twitter, “The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation.”

“The DeSantis administration will bring accountability to the DOJ, excise political bias and end weaponization once and for all,” he added.

Trump has suggested he could be indicted a third time as part of Smith’s investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S Capitol.

The charges against Trump come as polls show he is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. According to FiveThirtyEight’s polling aggregator, he receives 51.9% of the vote.

Meanwhile, DeSantis comes in second place with 18.9%