{"id":7990,"date":"2023-03-19T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2023-03-19T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T13:20:03","slug":"trump-2024-opponent-vivek-ramaswamy-slams-possible-looming-indictment-dark-moment-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7990","title":{"rendered":"Trump 2024 opponent Vivek Ramaswamy slams possible looming indictment: &#8216;Dark moment in American history&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized rumors of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\"><u>President Trump&#8217;s possible looming indictment<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on Saturday, calling it &#8220;un-American&#8221; to prosecute the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals,&#8221; the entrepreneur said on Twitter. &#8220;If a Republican prosecutor in 2004 had used a campaign finance technicality to arrest then-candidate John Kerry while Bush &amp; Cheney were in power, liberals would have cried foul &#8211; and rightly so.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This will mark a dark moment in American history and will undermine public trust in our electoral system itself,&#8221; Ramaswamy&nbsp;continued. &#8220;I call on the Manhattan District Attorney to reconsider this action and to put aside partisan politics in service of preserving our Constitutional republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/law\"><u>Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;is reportedly planning to indict the former president regarding his alleged hush money scandal with porn star Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump&#8217;s then-lawyer Michael Cohen allegedly sent $130,000 to Daniels to prevent her from publicizing her 2006 affair with Trump. 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