DeSantis – Without Naming Names Says Indictment ‘Agenda’ Isn’t About ‘Rule of Law’

Florida’s Republican Governor and presumptive 2024 candidate Ron DeSantis was in New York for his book tour Saturday when he took the opportunity to address the unprecedented indictment of the 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump. Fascinatingly, he did this without once uttering the name of his would-be primary opponent or Alvin Bragg, the Democrat Manhattan District Attorney prosecuting him.

As reported by Fox News, DeSantis was speaking at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Nassau County when he spoke well of Lee Zeldin, former U.S. Congressman and GOP candidate for governor. He praised Zeldin for his criticism of the Manhattan DA.

“This guy is all about politics. He comes in, his whole thing is he doesn’t want people to be in jail. He wants to downgrade felonies to misdemeanors. Really, really dangerous stuff,” DeSantis said of a disturbing memo released by Bragg detailing his stance of non-prosecution.

“And then what does he do? He turns around, does a flimsy indictment against a former President of the United States based on a bunch of things that they’re saying business records, which, first of all, even if that’s true, that’s a misdemeanor.”

“And they’re trying to do all these legal gymnastics to try to act like it’s a felony when almost every other time he’s trying to take the felonies and downgrade them to misdemeanors, this guy is politics. He has an agenda that is not the rule of law,” DeSantis continued still managing to avoid naming Trump.

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The same day at a tour stop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he explained his position on the prosecution of Trump.

“And now you have this Manhattan District Attorney who, his whole platform when he got elected, was that he was going to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanors. He was going to keep as many people out of jail … as many habitual criminals as possible. And he was going to go light on all these things as part of criminal justice reform,” DeSantis said according to Florida Politics.

“So that’s his posture! He doesn’t want to charge people with felonies. So now he turns around, purely for political purposes, and indicts a former President on misdemeanor offenses that they’re straining to try to convert into felonies. That is when you know that the law has been weaponized for political purposes,” DeSantis added.

🚨Ron DeSantis destroys Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg: says he thinks he is “above the law” 🔥 pic.twitter.com/95F060k9EC

— West Coast Politics (@Coast_Politics) April 1, 2023

As noted by Pedro Gonzalez of Chronicles Magazine, DeSantis told the Pennsylvania crowd, “We reject soft-on-crime policies like eliminating cash bail and jailbreak legislation, which lets people out of prison early without even completing their full sentences.” Gonzalez noted that the quote sounded very similar to the First Step Act, signed into law by Trump in 2018.

DeSantis on crime: “We reject soft-on-crime policies like eliminating cash bail and jailbreak legislation, which lets people out of prison early without even completing their full sentences.” The latter sure sounds a lot like the First Step Act. pic.twitter.com/3LNKIIDuXZ

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) April 2, 2023

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