Posted on 09/03/2023 7:42:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy offered rare but mild criticism of former President Trump on Sunday when he called efforts to keep Trump in power following the 2020 election through a fake elector scheme “bad judgements.”
Ramaswamy at first dodged ABC’s George Stephanopoulos’s pressing questions on “This Week” asking him if it was wrong for Trump associates to create slates of phony electors in states that Trump lost. Ramaswamy instead said that if he had been president, he would have “never let it get to that place.”
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They’re called alternative electors
Picking Mike Pence was a blunder and Trump paid for it by losing his presidency.
Ramaswamy said he “would not have nominated phony slates of electors.”
So, would he have not nominated ANY slates at all, and not pressed to have questionable elections go for 10 days to the states legislatures? Is he saying DJT's slates were phony, but he'd have made good alternate slates? Is he implying the 2020 election was not stolen?
And shows his unfamiliarity with the US electoral system.
But being basically a foreigner, that’s understandable.
Fauci cost Trump the presidency.
Vivek is all over the map on things. Red Flag on him. I haven’t trusted him from the beginning. He seems to say things he thinks whoever he is speaking to wants to hear.
Probably not a bad guy, but he came out of the blue and his mouth has put him in the race, not any of his actions.
Y’all have to remember that this stealth Soros liberal is a liar with no principles at all.
and were always on the ballot to be submitted if DjT won the state.
Vivek’s use of “fake” shows his glibness is hollowness.
Vivek is NOT eligible to President.
Does that make HIM A FAKE????
Yep, it’s become quite the meme, on Free Republic, that Vivek is liberal, and that Vivek is a tool of Soros.
Some Freepers come here and make these charges, and then other Freepers jump in, and refute the charges that Vivek is somehow affiliated with Soros. And then people on both sides present their evidence and argue about it.
So when you have opinionated Freepers on either side of a debate, which Freepers are you supposed to believe?
Yeah, only the MSM could get away with calling them fake.
Name me an election wherein alternatives were not put forward — in accordance with the US Const.
That is why Pence was revealed as a traitor when he refused to consider them to even talk about.
Has there ever been a time when personal electors were chosen in the history of the United States? If yes then trump should use that in court as a reason he did it. That may make the jury think.
He’s smarmy and swarthy
This guy Vivek wants to be president?
He doesnt seem to mind mind showing his ignorance WRT US campaign laws
and demonstrates his eagerness to gain points by siding with Trump’s enemies.
His foolhardy remarks come straight out of the Ga indictment.
In her Aug. 14 indictment of Trump, Fani Willis alleged
<><>the existence of Republican electors for Trump constituted an unlawful “conspiracy” to overturn 2020 election results.
<><>Willis falsely claimed these alternate electors “unlawfully falsely held themselves out” as Georgia’s “duly elected and qualified” presidential electors.
<><>She further insisted these electors intentionally attempted to “mislead.”
However, among the documents Willis has in her possession obtained during her years-long investigation of Republicans was a meeting transcript refuting her allegations which she willfully withheld.
<><>A transcript of the Georgia Republican electors’ Dec. 14, 2020, meeting, obtained by The Federalist, explicitly shows the intent
<><>that casting alternate electors was not to impersonate public officers, as Willis alleged, but to lawfully preserve Trump’s legal challenge to the state’s election results.
These documents specifically noted how the electors were acting as “Republican nominees for Presidential Elector,” not as “duly elected and qualified” presidential electors.
He will say whatever the hidden hand tells him to say.
Ohio is a foreign country!
NOT FAKE, DUMBASS...ALTERNATIVE ELECTORS!
Trump should have given Fauci the "gag order" by June of 2020. That was when the states were going to open back up, including Georgia and Florida.
“Fauci cost Trump the presidency”
I’d like to see you explain this precisely
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