DeSantis Asks, Is There a Different Standard of Justice for a Democrat Secretary of State and a Former Republican President?

On Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was on the presidential nominee campaign trail, stopping in Greensboro, North Carolina, for the GOP state convention. On the heels of the news of former President Donald Trump’s indictment, audiences were curious if the Governor of Florida would add to his statement from Friday about his Republican campaign rival.

DeSantis regularly speaks about the weaponization of government on the campaign trail, and in Greensboro, it was no different.

DeSantis said:
 

Our Founding Fathers would have absolutely predicted the weaponization that we’ve seen with these agencies, particularly Justice and FBI, because when you don’t have Constitutional accountability, human nature is such that they will abuse their power, and that’s what happened. Nobody has held them accountable. 

On this topic, DeSantis did allude to Trump, saying:

And is there a different standard for a Democrat Secretary of State versus a former Republican president? I think there needs to be one standard of justice in this country. Let’s enforce it on everybody and make sure we all know the rules.You can’t have one faction of society weaponizing the power of the state against factions that it doesn’t like, and that’s what you see. And here’s the thing… there’s obviously very high-profile examples.