‘It’s time to put a felon in the White House,’ says Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.
The sheriff of a California county is splitting with his state’s predominant political party and says he’ll vote for Republican Donald Trump in November, slamming Democrat bail reform policies letting criminals out of jail.
In an Instagram post over the weekend, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco blasted the catch-and-release of criminals leading to them being recycled back into neighborhoods, effectively countering his efforts to keep communities safe.
We need more Sheriff Bianco’s in our country! Dude speaks truth! pic.twitter.com/OYRDHSPvoL
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Bianco said he’s “getting tired” of the lax crime policies and decided he’s “gonna change teams,” going on to ask others to join him.
“I think it’s time that, instead of letting them out of jail and giving them alcohol and drugs and everything else, I think it’s time we put a felon in the White House,” Sheriff Bianco said, adding, “Trump 2024, baby. Let’s save this country and make America great again.”
Read a transcript of Sheriff Bianco’s post below:
Hello, California Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco. You know for the past 30 years, I’ve been doing everything I could to keep our community safe by arresting criminals and putting them in jail and putting them in prison, keeping them out of our neighborhoods for the last five years. I’ve been very critical about our governor for slashing our budgets from corrections, for letting prisoners out early, for closing our prisons. I’ve been critical of our state legislature for passing laws to make it harder to put people in prison. I’ve been critical for their changing laws that let prisoners out early, and I’ve been critical for our attorney general for seemingly not caring about crime and really being an embarrassment to law enforcement.
And this love affair that our governor and our state legislature have with criminals is based on the belief that criminals are not responsible for their own actions. They’re victim of society and really it’s…it’s our fault. It’s society’s fault. It’s businesses’ fault. It’s cops fault. It might be my fault. Law enforcement, apparently if you listen to our governor, is systemically racist. If you listen to our legislature, our laws are systemically racist, our judicial system is systemically racist. All of these people that are being put in jail, or because of law enforcement bias, and DA bias, and all of these things. And so they let them out, they give them food. They give them housing. They give them money, they give them drugs and alcohol now.
And, I got to be honest, I’m getting tired. I’m getting tired and I’m wondering if I’m having a change of heart and deciding that, ‘You know what? Maybe I’ve been wrong.’
And I think I’m gonna change teams. I know it’s gonna make some of you angry. I know that you’re gonna be mad at me, but I’m gonna change teams. I think they’re onto something, but I don’t think they’re doing enough. I think that we need to go big. You know me, go big or go home. You’re the biggest, you do the best. You’re the best at everything, and you might as well do something right if you’re gonna do it. And I’m all in. And I hope that you’re all with me. I hope that you all have this change of heart. You all feel that this is definitely the right thing to do, and you come alongside me in this venture. And I think it’s time that, instead of letting them out of jail and giving them alcohol and drugs and everything else, I think it’s time we put a felon in the White House. Trump 2024, baby. Let’s save this country and make America great again.
The nation definitely needs more Trump-supporting sheriffs and law enforcement officials across the country to take a cue from Sheriff Bianco!