Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy clashed with CNN host Dana Bash over a promise to pardon former President Donald Trump on Sunday.
“Reading that indictment, seeing the selective omission of facts and laws, Dana, made me even more convinced that amnesty was the right answer here,” Ramaswamy said in “State of the Union with Jake Tupper and Dana Bash.” told bash. On Sunday, President Trump answered a question about whether he would keep his promise to grant a pardon if he is convicted of charges related to handling classified documents. (Related: ‘I’m so upset about it’: Gerardo Rivera lashes out over DOJ’s prosecution of Trump)
“This is a selective prosecution. should be questioned about the possible involvement of The Republican presidential candidate, according to RealClearPolitics averages. “It stinks of politicization, so I want to go back to the most important questions the media should really ask: ‘What did Biden say to Garland?’ What did Garland say to Jack Smith? is what you need to get to the bottom of.”
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President Trump said on Thursday he was informed by his attorneys that he had been indicted as a result of a search of classified documents that were the subject of the Aug. 8 raid on his Mar-a-Lago, Fla., mansion. Announced on Truth Social. Ramaswamy said in a Twitter post Thursday night that he would pardon Trump.
The Justice Department on Friday released an indictment indicting Trump on 37 counts, including record keeping, false statements, obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
“What if it wasn’t?” Bash asked Ramaswamy after a former biotech executive said Trump made the wrong decision regarding the record.
“I would not have carried those documents with me and would have returned them upon request, because that would have actually provided for a more constructive discussion,” Ramaswamy told Bash. “But there is a difference between wrongful judgments and violations of the law, especially when the Federal Police Service confuses the two, and in a situation where every wrongful judgment is treated as a violation, not just for President Trump, but for all Americans. , it poses a threat to liberty’ of the law. “
Ramaswamy then confronted Bash, saying there was no evidence that President Joe Biden had influenced the investigation, alleging that the media had double-standard scrutiny.
“Unless you can show that President Biden has anything to do with this indictment, there is absolutely no evidence. That is why he put two layers in between,” Bash told Ramaswamy.
“I think it’s a shame, as a competitor of President Trump in this campaign, to have to ask questions that the media aren’t asking,” Ramaswamy told Bash. “If the political media has one job, it is to hold the U.S. government to account.”
“You’re seeing the media at the mercy of the US government,” Ramaswamy added. “Ask questions to figure out what Biden told Garland and what Garland said to Jack Smith. If the same shoe was on the other foot, what would their You can’t take my words at face value.”
Bash claimed CNN worked to hold the government accountable.
“We do it every day, so we know how to be good journalists,” said the CNN host.
Mr. Ramaswami did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether to pardon Mr. Biden or indict Mr. Biden over the discovery of classified documents at his Delaware home and hospital. office It was once used by the Penn Biden Center.
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