Vivek Ramaswamy preemptively responded to the latest indictment of former President Donald Trump over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. He was the only 2024 Republican presidential candidate to do so on Monday night following the indictment, besides Trump himself.
On Monday evening, a Georgia grand jury delivered the indictments.
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Trump was revealed later in the evening to be one of the individuals charged with racketeering.
During a NewsNation town hall that took place directly after the delivery of the indictments by the grand jury, host Leland Vittert prompted Ramaswamy for a response.
“The reality is this — these are politicized persecutions through prosecution,” he said. “And I say this as somebody who’s running in some polls third, and some polls, like today’s, second. It would be a lot easier for me if Donald Trump were not in this primary. But that is not how I want to win this election.”
Ramaswamy’s campaign also referred the Washington Examiner to an earlier tweet from the candidate following a published document by Reuters that caused people to wonder whether Trump was one of the people being charged.
“It’s downright pathetic that Fulton County publicly posted the indictment on its website even before the grand jury had finished convening,” he wrote.
Claiming that prosecutors are employing “novel & untested legal theories,” Ramaswamy suggested that Trump “immediately file a motion to dismiss for a constitutional due process violation for publicly issuing an indictment before the grand jury had actually signed one.”
He even said he would author an amicus brief to the court on behalf of Trump.
Speculation about the indictment swirled for much of Monday. Reuters reported on a document that showed Trump’s name alongside dozens of crimes. According to Reuters, the document was available on the court’s website, but it was deleted shortly after publication.
Here we go again: another disastrous Trump indictment. It’s downright pathetic that Fulton County publicly posted the indictment on its website even before the grand jury had finished convening. Since the four prosecutions against Trump are using novel & untested legal theories,… pic.twitter.com/LOYkGcCgm5
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 14, 2023
Representatives for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley did not provide comment to the Washington Examiner.
Scott may address the development at the Iowa State Fair on Tuesday, where he will participate in a “fair-side chat with Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA).
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After Trump’s previous indictment earlier this month, Haley notably remarked that she was tired of responding to his legal troubles. “Unlike the other candidates, I didn’t rush out with a statement yesterday on Trump’s indictment for one simple reason — like most Americans, I’m tired of commenting on every Trump drama,” she said on the Good Morning New Hampshire with Jack Heath radio show. “I’ve lost track of whether this indictment is the third or fourth or the fifth.”
Before he was revealed to be named in the indictment, Trump’s campaign responded, accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of “election interference” by bringing forth “bogus indictments.”
