Posted on 09/03/2023 11:45:21 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubled down on his comments regarding voting for former President Trump if he is the Republican nominee in 2024, even if Trump is convicted in one of his four ongoing legal battles.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Ramaswamy on “This Week” why he believed it was “OK for a convicted felon to be president,” should Trump both be a nominee and be convicted as he faces 91 charges in four cases. Ramaswamy responded by reiterating that the prosecutions against Trump are “downright politicized persecutions.”
“I do not want to see us become a ‘banana republic’ where the administrative police state uses police force to eliminate opponents from competition,” he said. “That’s not the way it works.”
“I will pick who I believe the best next president should be,” he continued. “I’m in this race because I believe I can lead us forward and reunite this country but if it’s not me as the nominee, I still expect that Donald Trump or whoever the Republican nominee is will be better than the alternative.”
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He was never a Democrat. Libertarian then Republican
Ramatsunami is being attacked by both sides of the establishment.
Reminds me of someone else.
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Do you think if you type in all caps your words will carry more weight ?
The Hill
9/3/23
Haley on supporting Trump: Americans ‘are not going to vote for a convicted criminal’
A recent thread on natural born citizenship had over 300 replies.
This subject has been discussed quite a bit, here on Free Republic.
There is no Free Republic consensus on this subject.
If it’s Ramaswamy versus Biden or whoever his Democrat replacement is, who do we all vote for?
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 trashing Trump WRT his electors 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.
Now Vivek doesn't have big titties, which is THE number one prerequisite Trump has for selecting his staff. (Not loyalty, competence, etc.)
But Vivek kisses the ring and compliments Trump and clearly seems to be running to be a big Number Two, and that goes a long way in Trump's eyes. Because TRUMP has to have the biggest peepee. TRUMP has to be the ALPHA male. TEUMP has to be the most geniusest in the entire room.
“You have no evidence, so in typical libtard fashion you go after me personally.”
Typical lbieral: Any critizism of your thinking is called a personal attack.
” he was a democrat until recently” So was Reagan and Trump. The equivalent would be to say that you were a child but now are an adult.
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.”
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 trashing Trump WRT his electors 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.
Up your meds.
I’ve upped my meds, now up yours.
I think you are right that there is no consensus.
But the law does not require consensus. A baby is a natural born citizen of the US if 2 things exist:
1) The baby is born on US soil to parents who are US citizens, or if not US citizens, are under the jurisdiction of the US.
2) The baby is born on US soil at that time NOT under the control / jurisdiction of a hostile military presence.
Item 2 happened in WW II when Japanese troops temporarily occupied Aleutian Islands.
Item 1 depends on soil and jurisdiction and the only way foreign citizen parents are not under the jurisdiction of the US when on US soil is if they have presented diplomatic credentials to the US State Dept.
Jurisdiction: the territory or sphere of activity over which the legal authority of a court or other institution extends
That means US soil. And no diplomatic credentials.
There is nothing more to debate.
Trump has praised Ramaswamy as well, saying he’d be a “very good” vice president. In an interview with Glenn Beck on his show on Blaze TV, Trump said he has “good energy.”
“He’s a smart guy. He’s a young guy. He’s got a lot of talent. He’s a very, very, very intelligent person,” Trump said.
it really should be adjudicated to put it to rest
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You are right but it’s like everything else in this society, just kick the can down the road. It seems to me that the only things getting in our society today are attacks on humanity - non-stop death and destruction.
Trump has praised Ramaswamy as well, saying he’d be a “very good” vice president. In an interview with Glenn Beck on his show on Blaze TV, Trump said he has “good energy.”
“He’s a smart guy. He’s a young guy. He’s got a lot of talent. He’s a very, very, very intelligent person,” Trump said.
Ha
TEUMP=TRUMP.
There is some more to debate. You have explained a common understanding among many people, which is appreciated.
But there is more to debate, as to how Obama and Kamala were elected to positions in spite of not meeting the criteria for natural born citizenship, and how Vivek and Nikki Haley are campaigning for president.
In other words, why is there no legal impediment, no legal authority to prevent unqualified candidates from running for office? That specific aspect of this should be discussed.
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