DeSantis rips Manhattan DA Bragg's 'flimsy' Trump indictment in New York speech: Agenda 'not the rule of law'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, during a book tour stop in New York's Long Island Saturday, criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's indictment of former President Donald Trump. 

In a speech at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Nassau County, DeSantis, without referring to Bragg by name, applauded former U.S. congressman and GOP candidate for governor of New York, Lee Zeldin, for becoming a vocal critic of the Democrat Manhattan district attorney while on the 2022 campaign trail amid soaring crime in the Empire State. 

"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 Bragg's now-infamous day-one soft on crime memo issued when he took office in January 2022. "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."