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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) went after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Saturday following the indictment against former President Trump, claiming that the law has been “weaponized” to go after Trump.
DeSantis spoke as the keynote speaker at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, a conservative event held near the state capital of Harrisburg. He alleged that Bragg was being hypocritical in pushing for the indictment against Trump over the hush-money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels while pursuing lighter charges against other offenders in certain cases.
He claimed that Bragg’s “whole platform” when he was running to be district attorney in 2021 was to “downgrade as many felonies as possible” to become misdemeanors, and “keep as many people out of jail, even habitual criminals, as possible” and “go light on all these things as part of ‘criminal justice reform.’”
“So now he turns around, purely for political purposes, and indicts a former president on misdemeanor offenses that they’re straining to convert into felonies,” DeSantis claimed.
