Former President Trump attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his leading GOP rival for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, over what he described as a lack of loyalty during an interview given to Fox News this week.

“I got him elected,” Trump told Fox News anchor Bret Baier during a wide-ranging conversation, the second portion of which the network aired on Tuesday. “And I thought it was very disloyal when he said ‘Yes, I’d run.’ I got him past two races.”

Trump told Baier “I’m a big loyalist.”

“Some people right here in this room tell me sir don’t worry about loyalty, it doesn’t mean anything in politics,” Trump said, gesturing across the room at his New Jersey golf club. “I said, to me it does. I got the guy elected.”

Trump has repeatedly attacked Fox over the last several months for its coverage of DeSantis, who is seen as the former president’s chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination.

Trump noted polls showing him with a wide lead over DeSantis in the race for the Republican nod.

The sit-down interview with Baier, Fox’s chief political anchor, is the former president’s first since 2018 and comes just weeks after a federal indictment he was hit with stemming from his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.

During an earlier portion of the interview, which aired Monday evening on Fox, Trump defended his handling of the documents and clashed with Baier over his claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election.