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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as a “Soros-funded prosecutor” in his first public remarks about former President Donald Trump’s claim that he will be arrested on Tuesday.
DeSantis, a likely main rival to Trump as he seeks the 2024 Republican nomination, also provoked Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign by saying he wouldn’t get involved in “any way” in the case.
Addressing Trump’s claim of an indictment, DeSantis said he has only seen the “rumors swirl” but no facts, “so I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
“But I do know this: The Manhattan district attorney is a [George] Soros-funded prosecutor, and so he, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety,” DeSantis told reporters during a news conference on Monday.
The governor ripped Bragg for downgrading half of felonies to misdemeanors and putting the lives of New Yorkers at risk.
“He says he doesn’t want to even have jail time for the vast, vast majority of crimes. And what we’ve seen in Manhattan is we’ve seen the crime rate go up, and we’ve seen citizens become less safe,” DeSantis said.
He said Bragg and other Soros-backed district attorneys are a “menace to society” for ignoring crime while coddling criminals, “and that hurts a lot of people every single day.
