Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is calling on other GOP candidates to speak out against the potential impeachment against Trump after Nikki Haley and Tim Scott declined to answer questions from
- Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and other potential presidential candidates have yet to comment on the bombshell reports that Trump could be impeached
- Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called on the candidates to weigh up their options
- He said an indictment would be the “beginning of the end” because it would be the use of “arrest powers” to “remove opposition from a ruling party”.
Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and several other potential presidential candidates have yet to comment on the bombshell reports that Donald Trump could be indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney this week.
Longtime presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy had some harsh words for the Republican field on Saturday, claiming their silence could be “the beginning of the end.”
Should charges be brought in the case of Trump’s hush money payment to porn star Stormey Daniels, it would be the first against the former president – and could open a floodgate for further cases against him.
Neither Senator Scott nor former Gov. Haley, a Trump-era ambassador to the United Nations, chose to answer questions from regarding the indictment at the Palmetto Family Council’s Vision ’24 National Conservative Forum in North Charleston, South Carolina. to answer on Saturday.
Florida Gov. DeSantis’ team did not respond to ‘s request for comment on the charges.
Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy urged his potential and announced fellow candidates to denounce the impeachment of impeachment against Donald Trump
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley (left) and Senator Tim Scott (right), who is weighing an offer, both did not respond to when asked about the indictment at the Palmetto Family Council’s Vision ’24 National Conservative Forum in North Charleston. South Carolina on Saturday
“Today was an important day in the country,” Ramaswamy said during a brief press conference following his own remarks at the forum.
“The reason I’m doing this is because I think the rest of the Republican field has been deafeningly silent today about an important issue in the country,” he added, adding that impeachment could loom.
“What I’m about to say has nothing to do with Donald Trump, it has everything to do with the integrity of an election and the integrity of a self-governing democracy,” the biotech multimillionaire added. “So I don’t care if you support Trump or not. If you support the integrity of our constitutional republic, you must be on the side to be truly clear.”
Ramaswamy has been extremely vocal in denouncing the prospect of an indictment against Trump, claiming that if it weren’t for the face of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s strong opposition to Trump, there wouldn’t be a case.
He claimed during his Saturday press conference in Charleston that he was a “politically empowered prosecutor” who wants to “use arrest warrants to eliminate the opposition of a ruling party.”
Ramaswamy immediately responded to the news of the impending indictment with a tweet on Saturday morning.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ team did not respond to a request from for comment on the indictment against Trump
Former Vice President Mike Pence, also a potential 2024 hopeful, also responded by telling radio station Breitbart News that the move, while not yet implemented, “smacks of the kind of political persecution we’ve been seeing these days.” of the Russia joke had to endure”.
Otherwise, the rest of the field of already announced and potential candidates remained silent.
“This morning we learned that the New York Manhattan District Attorney is likely to indict a former president of the United States who is running for office,” Ramaswamy said, making it clear that he is in a presidential primary against Trump, his thoughts on Charges are not politically motivated.
“It’s a sad day in America,” he said. “It’s a dark day in America when the ruling party in this country uses police force to arrest their political opposition.”
“That would be the beginning of the end, as we know.”