evidence: Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival for the Republican nomination in 2024 – bashing the governor over everything from pandemic policy to Social Security. [...] One of Trump’s claims was an exaggeration about temporary restrictions DeSantis put in place early in the Covid-19 pandemic. Another claim was a misleading comparison between the number of votes Trump and DeSantis received in Florida. A third claim was a repeated inaccuracy in Trump’s oft-told story about why he decided to endorse DeSantis’s first campaign for governor. [...] Trump claimed in the written statement that DeSantis "was Third Worst in the Nation for COVID-19 Deaths (losing 86,294 People)" and "Third Worst for Total Number of Cases, at 7,516,906."