Internet divided as Vivek Ramaswamy predicts NY ruling against Trump could energize key voter group

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK: Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, has made predictions concerning a recent judgment worth half a billion dollars against former President Donald Trump in New York.

According to the 38-year-old biotech multimillionaire, the New York civil fraud ruling may lead to voters in "droves" shifting their support towards Trump and could be unanimously struck down by the Supreme Court for violating the 8th Amendment.

What did Vivek Ramaswamy say during his interview with Fox News?

Regarding the likelihood that the state of New York could start collecting Donald Trump's real estate holdings as early as Monday, March 25, if he is unable to secure the $464 million bond required to appeal the civil fraud verdict against him, Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital, "I think this will drive independents to Trump in droves."

"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," he continued.

"I think that's going to be startling and eye-opening for a lot of independents across this country and it is 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," Ramaswamy added.

Trump's legal team has stated that it is a 'practical impossibility' for the former POTUS to meet the bond deadline on Monday. Ramaswamy questioned the veracity of the reports but acknowledged that they represent a 'sad' and 'unjust' unfolding of events.

Ramaswamy remarked, "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."

The firebrand Republican argued, "Abusing a consumer protection law to instead charge a case where the counterparties weren't ordinary consumers, but sophisticated financial institutions, and 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 form of political and financial leverage over that individual, is shocking that this has happened in the United States of America."

"I think that the old Soviet saying was, you find me the man and I'll show you the crime," Ramaswamy stated. "Well, that's come to life now in the pursuit of Donald Trump."

What did Ramaswamy say regarding role of SCOTUS in dismissing civil fraud judgment?

In his interview with Fox News Digital, the biotech entrepreneur opined that the civil fraud judgment is inherently unjust and violates the 8th Amendment.

Furthermore, if the case were to be appealed to the Supreme Court, Ramaswamy suggests that a ruling in Trump's favor would be likely, citing a previous case in which an effort to remove him from the Colorado presidential ballot was ultimately unsuccessful.

Ramaswamy said, "I think this is exactly the kind of case that the first half of the eighth amendment was designed to protect against and I believe if taken to the Supreme Court. We could see the equivalent of another nine zero rebukes of this unjust maneuver against Trump."

"I say this because Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself, is not some sort of conservative justice, certainly it's not the label that most would use to describe Justice Ginsburg but she had a clear-eyed view of the Eighth Amendment as well and I think if she were on the court today she'd say the same thing," he explained.

The founder of Roivant Sciences asserted, "This is an excessive fine, especially against the prosecutorial context of it's not just an excessive fine issued by a jury in an otherwise impartial prosecution, it's the product of a remarkably precise witch hunt against one man that then is topped off by what is an excessive fine in a case where there was no victim for the alleged crime and I think that that is going to be if that's an avenue that's pursued on appeal, I think it's going to be a very promising one for the Supreme Court to affirm."

The 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution states, "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

"Not just because of this one case, because of a pattern of behavior demonstrating that her own political beliefs are affecting the legal judgments that she makes as a prosecutor that has an impact on the lives of everyday citizens and so I think that type of continued reckless disregard for the law, I do think, is grounds for disbarment," Ramaswamy stated, conceding that it’s "very difficult" to "prosecute a prosecutor for a crime."

"But this had an impact on a presidential candidate's latitude and ability to run an election," Ramaswamy reiterated. "If there is irreparable damage done both to Trump and to the country, there has to be some level of accountability. There can't just be no accountability for the people who perpetrated this and at the very least, one level of accountability I think could be disbarment."

Ramaswamy claimed that notions that were written off as 'conspiracies' a few years ago are now 'blunt realities' and reaffirmed his prediction that a sizable portion of American voters will object to Trump's prosecution.

"The reality is I think it's going to sadly, that Donald Trump has to go through this, it's sad, but it will have the effect of opening the eyes of many other Americans who otherwise would have thought, hey, that's just something that would never happen to me to now realize that if this is the theory they're going to use to extort nearly half $1 billion from one man, if they could do it to Trump they could do it to anybody," he argued. 

"I think the everyday Americans and business people and entrepreneurs opening their eyes to that is going to have a seismic impact on the election this year. It's a shame that Donald Trump has to go through this. It's really sad. It's unjust," he remarked.

According to Ramaswamy, the New York civil fraud verdict against Donald Trump ultimately degrades America's reputation internationally.

"People are opening their eyes to the reality to say that we don't want to become some banana republic," Ramaswamy noted, adding. "We can't point to other countries and ride a high horse of our civic superiority as a constitutional republic. If we're behaving worse than many of the other countries that we supposedly set an example for and I think if there's a silver lining in all of this, I think this could then become a turning point to revive the ideals of our country, to revive the ideals of the American Revolution and that's at least something positive that comes out of these disastrous events then I'm hopeful that can at least be a revival on the other side of it."

"That will make us stronger but it is saddening that people like Trump have to go through this. If there's good that comes of it for the country, for waking up people to the realities of this weaponization and to saying hell no to it at the ballot box this November then I think that at least there could be some good that comes out on the other side," he said in conclusion.

Internet reacts as Vivek Ramaswamy forecasts civil fraud ruling against Trump having 'seismic' impact 

People on X shared their opinions and immediate reactions to Ramaswamy's claims regarding the likelihood of the New York verdict violating the 8th Amendment and the subsequent possibility of it being unanimously struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States.

One X user remarked: "They can't stop Trump."

Another user wrote: "It could help with independents that see it as pure lawfare against a political opponent."

Another user said: "Wait until New Yorkers feel the financial blowback from the state's actions. All self-inflicted."

One user quipped: "Yeah all those people who think Trump is the most mistreated person since Job but were not going to vote for him until a court held him accountable for his crimes, totally believable."

Another X user claimed: "Ummm, this might be hard to grasp—his base is energized but shrinks with every guilty verdict. Some people have principles."

Finally, this user tweeted: "The key voter group of fanatics that are already fanatical. Yeah, I don't think this changes that."

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