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Ron DeSantis dislikes Manhattan's "Soros-backed DA", but would rather focus on Florida than Trump [1]
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Date: 2023-03-20
Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) held a news conference at Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, Florida, together with Jimmy Patronis, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the state of Florida. During the conference, one attendee asked about Trump’s indictment, and DeSantis had this to say:
So, I’ve seen rumors, I have not seen any facts yet, so I don’t know what’s going to happen.
But I do know this, the Manhattan district attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor. 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.
He has downgraded over 50 percent of the felonies to misdemeanors. He says he doesn’t even want to 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.
So, you’re talking about this situation with, and look, I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. I just, I can’t speak to that.
What I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago and he tries to use something about porn star hush money payments, y’know, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office and I think that’s fundamentally wrong,
I also think it’s important to point out when you talk about these Soros-funded prosecutors; yes they may do a high-profile, politicized prosecution, and that’s bad, but the real victims are ordinary New Yorkers, ordinary Americans in all these different jurisdictions, that they get victimized every day because of the reckless political agenda that these Soros D.A.’s bring to their job. They ignore crime and they empower criminals and that hurts people, hurts a lot of people every single day.
These Soros district attorneys are a menace to society and I’m just glad I’m the only governor in the country that’s actually removed one during my tenure.
We are not involved in this, we won’t be involved in this. I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA. Okay. He’s trying to do a political spectacle. He’s trying to virtue signal for his base. I’ve got real issues that I got to deal with here in the state of Florida. We’re obviously shutting down CBDC, which is important, we’ve got so many important things in front of the legislature. I’ve got to spend my time on issues that actually matter to people. I can’t spend my time worrying about things of that nature.
So we’re not going to be involved with it in any way. I’m fighting for Floridians and I’m fighting back against Biden, and that’s what I do every single day.
x Ron DeSantis is asked about a possible Trump indictment. He immediately blasts the Manhattan DA as a "Soros-funded prosecutor." But then he also says, "look, I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair." pic.twitter.com/g63X2U3xlk — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2023
In summary, Ron DeSantis has an odious feeling towards “Soros-funded prosecutors”, given that he ousted Andrew Warren, the District Attorney for Hillsborough County, the home of the city of Tampa.
“State Attorneys have a duty to prosecute crimes as defined in Florida law, not to pick and choose which laws to enforce based on his personal agenda,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “It is my duty to hold Florida’s elected officials to the highest standards for the people of Florida. I have the utmost trust that Judge Susan Lopez will lead the office through this transition and faithfully uphold the rule of law.” “I have the utmost respect for our state laws and I understand the important role that the State Attorney plays in ensuring the safety of our community and the enforcement of our laws,” said Susan Lopez, State Attorney of the 13th Judicial Circuit. “I want to thank the Governor for placing his trust in me, and I promise that I will faithfully execute the duties of this office.”
x DeSantis fires an elected prosecutor who was doing his job, just so he (DeSantis) can brag about having done it.
https://t.co/dikFFFA4VY — Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) March 15, 2023
But, he is less focused on the “manufactured circus” from Manhattan, and more focused on issues affecting the Sunshine State.
x 1. Florida schools are removing books w/LGBTQ characters, taking down rainbow flags, & canceling LGBTQ History Month
This is all due to the "Don't Say Gay" law, signed by DeSantis last year
But now, Florida Republicans are rallying around a major EXPANSION of Don't Say Gay
🧵 — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2023
However, DeSantis’s stance against George Soros is not enough to sway some swaths of MAGA.
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