Not bizarre at all, if you watch the clip. They're claiming that a citizen of the correct political persuasion would not be prosecuted.
There may be some truth to the claim. If someone transported the folks from Martha's Vineyard back to Florida and set them up with jobs, I doubt they're getting prosecuted for it. What is going unsaid there is that it's the
motivation for moving those people that matters. If you're just jerking their chain, that's morally wrong.
I would argue that, as I understand accounting laws prior to Sarbanes-Oxley, the 'smartest guys in the room' from Enron did nothing illegal. They ended up in the clink because their actions with respect to freezing employees' retirement savings were incredibly immoral, and it wasn't hard to get twelve people to agree that they deserved to be punished irrespective of whether the gray areas in the law they operated in were kosher or not.
It's a clever sleight-of-hand that uses the liberal/conservative divide to obscure the real issue here, which is the moral character of DeSantis's actions.