Former President Donald Trump scored another endorsement from a U.S. senator after he arrived in New York to be arraigned on criminal charges.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) announced her support for Trump in a statement on Monday that got right to criticizing the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

“The prosecution of President Trump in New York is a political stunt by a prosecutor whose campaign was funded by George Soros,” Hyde-Smith said.

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— Cindy Hyde-Smith (@cindyhydesmith) April 4, 2023

The senator was alluding to a racial justice group, Color of Change, that received $1 million from Soros, a liberal billionaire, and supported Bragg’s 2021 campaign for district attorney.

“That charade is all about self-promotion by the prosecutor and has nothing to do with justice,” Hyde-Smith added. “I believe the whole affair will backfire on the prosecutor and Democrats.”

On Tuesday, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of what Bragg, a Democrat, alleged to be a “catch-and-kill” scheme to influence the 2016 election. The former president claims he is being targeted by politically motivated prosecutors.

Beyond criticizing Bragg, Hyde-Smith said she is endorsing Trump because of his policies and his administration’s attentiveness to the needs of Mississippi.

Hyde-Smith is the sixth U.S. senator to endorse Trump’s 2024 campaign, following Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and J.D. Vance (R-OH). A few dozen Republicans in the House have expressed support for Trump, according to an Insider tracker.

Trump endorsed Hyde-Smith in her 2018 bid for the U.S. Senate. Hyde-Smith was one of a handful of senators who objected to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory.

Trump generally tops 2024 Republican primary polls, and his numbers appear to have gotten a boost as he became the first former president to face criminal charges. Even some of Trump’s GOP critics have spoken out in recent days to criticize the case.

“I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office,” said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) in a statement. “Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda.”

Besides Trump, former South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson have entered the 2024 race for the Republican presidential nomination. Others who may join the contest include former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

First Lady Jill Biden got blocked by the entire team when she attempted to make a pregame visit to the NCAA women’s basketball championship team — Louisiana State University — and she only had her husband to blame.

According to LSU star forward Angel Reese, Biden had planned to meet with the team prior to Sunday’s championship game — but because President Joe Biden had predicted in his pre-tournament bracket that the team would lose to Michigan, they wanted nothing to do with her.

“Apparently she was supposed to come to our locker room before the game but we said ‘no,'” Reese revealed during a post-championship interview for “I Am Athlete.”

“She was supposed to come to our locker room and go to Iowa’s locker room. I don’t know if she talked to them. I don’t know if she did,” Reese explained. “But we said we didn’t want to. We didn’t want her coming into the locker room.”

The reason, Reese said, was simple: “I think Joe Biden had put somebody else to win the national championship.”

“He didn’t even put us on his bracket to get out of Baton Rouge, so I was like, bet … I think that he said we were going to lose to Michigan or something,” she added.

Biden’s pre-tournament bracket — which had Villanova taking the top spot — predicted that LSU would lose to Michigan in the second round.

Reese also scoffed at the First Lady’s suggestion to have second place Iowa join the champions in their traditional trip to the White House.

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“I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do,” Jill Biden said on Monday. “So, we hope LSU will come. But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”

Reese was not interested, calling the dual invite “a joke” — even after Jill Biden’s press secretary Vanessa Valdivia clarified that her intent had only been to acknowledge that all of the women involved had played a great game.

“I’m not gonna lie to you, I don’t accept the apology because you said what you said,” she said. “I said what I said. You can’t go back on certain things that you say. I mean, you felt like they should’ve come because of ‘sportsmanship,’ right? They can have that spotlight. We’ll go to the Obamas.”

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