Desantis hits at prosecution, defends Trump

Florida Gov. Ron Desantis on Tuesday declined to criticize his opponent former President Donald Trump over his most recent legal woes,.

Florida’s governor, who is currently polling 40-points or more behind the Trump in the race for their party’s nomination, held an invite only press call with some members of the New England media on Tuesday, just hours after the nation learned the former president would face a fourth felony indictment.

Desantis seemed to suggest that prosecutors in Georgia had other matters to attend to, other than holding his chief rival to account for asking the Secretary of State there to “find” him over 11,000 votes.

“Atlanta has huge problems with crime right now and there has been an approach to crime which has been less than exacting,” Desantis said. “I think there have been criminals that have been let out that shouldn’t have been let out.

“And so they’re now doing an inordinate amount of resources to try to shoehorn this contest over the 2020 election into a RICO statute, which was really designed to be able to go after organized crime, not necessarily to go after political activity,” Desantis added.

If he is elected president, Desantis says he will clean house at the Department of Justice and FBI, preventing the sort of “weaponization” he sees there now.

Meanwhile, a Florida judge should rule without trial against Disney as the company fights Desantis’ takeover of a board that oversees Walt Disney World, the Republican governor’s appointees said in a Tuesday court filing.

Members of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District asked the state judge in Orlando for a summary judgment that would rule in their favor on five of the nine counts in their case.