Trump 2024 rival Vivek Ramaswamy slams impending indictment: ‘Dark moment in American history’
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized the rumours Possible indictment of President Trump She described the former president’s trial on Saturday as “un-American.”
“It is un-American for the ruling party to use the police force to arrest its political rivals,” the businessman said on Twitter. “If in 2004 a Republican attorney general had used campaign finance technology to arrest then-candidate John Kerry while Bush and Cheney were in power, liberals would have lashed out—and rightly so.”
Ramaswamy continued, “This will be a dark moment in American history and will undermine public confidence in our electoral system itself.” “I call on the Manhattan District Attorney to reconsider this action and set aside partisan politics in order to preserve our constitutional republic.
the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office He reportedly plans to indict the former president in connection with the alleged hush money scandal with porn star Stormy Daniels.
Vivek Ramaswamy leaves after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Friday, March 3, 2023, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump’s then-attorney Michael Cohen allegedly sent Daniels $130,000 to stop her from going public with her affair with Trump in 2006. Trump allegedly paid off Cohen in instalments.
Prosecutors will likely argue that the $130,000 paid to Daniels It was an inappropriate donation for the Trump campaign, as Daniels’ Democratic National Caucus helped nominate him.
A court source told Fox News Digital that members of Alvin Bragg’s office will be meeting with law enforcement to “discuss logistics for some time next week, which means they expect an indictment next week.”
Former US President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Arizona. (Brandon Bell)
President Trump blasted the reports Saturday morning, encouraging his followers to protest.
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“Now an illegal leak from the corrupt and highly political Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which allowed new records to be set in a violent crime whose leader is being funded by George Soros, please point out, without being recorded in a violent crime. An old, dishonored one will be arrested.” Totally (by a number of other prosecutors!) wrote on Truth Social.
President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with the Coronavirus Task Force, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, on Monday, March 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Fox News’ Kyle Morris contributed to this report.
