One group of “fact-checkers” took a break from thrashing conservatives to admit that a Republican was right in criticizing the left. In this case, it was Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
PolitiFact admitted in a post made on Saturday that DeSantis was right when he called out Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
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Last month, after the George Soros-backed Bragg secured a dubious indictment of former President Donald Trump for an alleged hush payment to stripper Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign, Desantis noted that Bragg “has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.”
PolitiFact admitted DeSantis was right but insisted on a caveat.
As for the governor being correct, the website noted that Bragg’s office reviewed 15,710 felony arrests in 2022, and opted to not prosecute 1,225 of them, or almost 8%.
“Of the felony cases that survived the review process,” PolitiFact noted, citing stats from Bragg’s own office, “52% were downgraded to a misdemeanor.”
Then PolitiFact delivered the out for Bragg.
“The data does not indicate why prosecutors changed the charges, though experts told us this practice is not unusual,” the outlet reported.
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The website reported that Bragg’s reduced-felony ratio was actually a couple points lower than other boroughs in the Big Apple. But, it allowed, those other communities “could have included a different set of cases.”
PolitiFact did acknowledge that much of the spike in reduced charges that have happened under Bragg were “perhaps” connected to his own soft-on-crime priorities.
In fact, things have gotten worse. Bragg’s current rate for 2023 is 54%.
Still, the bottom line for DeSantis, as PolitiFact admitted, “We rate this claim True.”
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