Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said the indictments against former President Donald Trump are making the United States a “banana republic.”
On Sunday’s edition of “This Week” on ABC, anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Your hand shot up pretty fast at the debate when you were asked whether you would vote for Donald Trump in the general election, even if he was a convicted felon.”
“Can you just explain why you would vote for a convicted felon for president?”
Ramaswamy responded:
“If the Constitution permits somebody to run, and that’s the person that people of this country want to elect, then that’s the way our system works, and I stand by it.”
Stephanopoulos said:
“Why do you think it’s okay for a convicted felon to be president?”
Ramaswamy responded:
“So look. I think that many of these prosecutions against Donald Trump are outright, downright politicized persecutions through prosecution that set an awful precedent for our country.”
“I do not want to see us become a banana republic where the administrative police state uses police force to eliminate opponents from competition,” Vivek Ramaswamy said on the indictments against Trump.
“That is not the way it works. I will pick who I believe the best next president should be.”
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Trump and 18 others were indicted on charges that included violations of the state RICO Act, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, and conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, among others.
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