FIRST ON FOX: Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy predicts a recent judgment worth almost half a billion dollars against former President Trump in New York will drive voters to Trump in “droves” and could be struck down unanimously by the Supreme Court for violating the 8th Amendment.
“I think this will drive independents to Trump in droves,” Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital about the possibility that the state of New York will begin seizing Trump’s properties as early as Monday if he is unable to secure the $464 million bond needed to appeal the recent civil judgment against him.
“Especially independents who are concerned about their own economic plight, their own security and safety in this country, who aren’t particularly partisan one way or another, but don’t believe that the justice system should be used to financially punish certain people because of their political affiliation.”
Ramaswamy continued, “I think that’s going to be startling and eye-opening for a lot of independents across this country and it is really a shame that they’re doing this to Trump, but I think it’s going to have the effect of even giving him a more decisive electoral mandate this November.”
NY AG ASKS COURT TO IGNORE TRUMP CLAIM THAT POSTING $464M BOND IS ‘PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITY’
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Reports circulated this week that New York officials are on the verge of seizing Trump properties if he doesn’t meet the bond deadline on Monday, something his legal team has said is a “practical impossibility”, and Ramaswamy said while he questions the accuracy of those reports, it would be a “sad” and “unjust” development.
“I mean it’s just jarring to think that this is a country where you just trace back the origin of this prosecution, you have a prosecutor who ran on the explicit promise of going after one man, regardless of the crime then actually effectively concocts a crime out of nowhere, torturing a statute that lawyers on the left and right agree was never intended for this kind of case,” Ramaswamy said.
“Abusing a consumer protection law to instead charge a case where the counterparties weren’t ordinary consumers, but sophisticated financial institutions, and moreover, sophisticated financial institutions that were not harmed that made money from those interactions to find a nearly half $1 billion judgment against an individual, and then use that as a lever in the middle of an election to effectively exercise a…
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