Conservative Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco joked that he was “changing teams” for the 2024 election and urged people to support a “convicted felon.”
“I think it’s time we put a felon in the White House,” Bianco said in a video posted to social media over the weekend.
Bianco said in the video that he has done all he could during his time in law enforcement to “keep our community safe by arresting criminals and putting them in jail,” but leaders in California have become softer on crime in recent years.
“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,” Bianco said. “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 of our attorney general for seemingly not caring about crime.”
The sheriff blamed the Democratic leaders in the state and their “belief that criminals are not responsible for their own actions.”
“They’re a victim of society,” Bianco said. “It’s society’s fault. It’s businesses’ fault. It’s cops’ fault. It might be my fault.”
He claimed that the leaders give criminals “housing, they give them money, they give them drugs and alcohol now.”
“I think I am going to change teams,” Bianco said. “Trump 2024, baby, let’s save this country and make America great again.”
