Republican presidential nominee Vivek Ramaswamy filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Justice (DOJ) for apparently failing to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to the indictment of former President Donald Trump over classified documents. announced that it caused
On June 12, Ramaswamy filed a FOIA request asking the US government to release all communications between the White House and the Justice Department in the classified documents indictment against Trump.
“My campaign wants to clarify *exactly* what the White House told Merrick Garland and Jack Smith about the unprecedented indictment of the former U.S. President and Biden’s unfavorable opponent in this election. , just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.Every American deserves to know,” said Ramaswamy tweeted at the time. (Related: ‘Run from the Department of Justice’: Vivek Ramaswamy, Laura Ingraham talk about Trump’s ‘unprecedented legal theory’)
For effectively refusing to comply with my Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to reveal what White House officials, including President Joe Biden, told Merrick Garland and Jack Smith about the matter. , I have just filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice. pic.twitter.com/7MPaLYrqHB
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRAmaswamy) August 2, 2023
“I am pleased to share this now. Tonight, following an earlier FOIA request, I actually went to the Department of Justice in an attempt to get to the bottom of what Mr. Biden and Mr. Merrick Garland told Mr. Jack Smith. We have filed a lawsuit against them,” Ramaswamy said. Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“This is the kind of transparency that the public really deserves here. I believe that this special veil of the special counsel is not really as independent as they claim to be. I filed a FOIA request in connection with the last case, which was illegally denied by them and with no substantive response, so we filed that lawsuit today and filed a new FOIA request. I will submit it,” he added, adding that the United States needed to “get to the bottom of the matter.”
This is Trump’s third indictment. Paid The former president was charged with “conspiracy to deceive the United States,” “conspiracy to obstruct official process,” “obstruction and attempted obstruction of official process,” and “conspiracy against rights.”
Mr Ramathway reiterated his promise to pardon the former president if he is elected.
Ramaswamy: ‘Corrupt federal police won’t stop until they accomplish their mission to remove President Trump’ said. “This is un-American and I pledge to pardon Mr. Trump against this indictment.” (Related article: Ramaswamy says Deep State is ‘too rotten’ to fix ‘from above’, says he supports ‘revolution’ not ‘reform’)
“Donald Trump was not responsible for what happened on January 6th. The real cause was the systematic and widespread national censorship that took place in the previous year. Then they will scream. When you tell people not to scream, then they destroy things. I don’t want to see us get there, because if we don’t admit the truth, January 6th is just a harbinger of worse things to come,” Ramaswamy continued.
