Riverside, California Sheriff Chad Bianco announced his endorsement of former President Donald Trump shortly after he was convicted on 34 felony counts in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's dubious “hush money” case.

“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,” the outspoken sheriff said in an Instagram video.

Bianco, who was once viewed as a candidate for governor of California, has been a fierce critic of current officeholder Gavin Newsom, accusing him of enabling lawlessness in the state.

“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” he said. “They're a victim of society and really it's it's our fault. It's society's fault, it's business's fault, it's we're 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 are because of law enforcement bias and DA bias and all of these things.”

After continuing to list a number of California's soft-on-crime policies, Bianco joked that he will now “change teams.”

“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,” Bianco said.

“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.”