GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy defends Trump after ‘weaponized’ Carroll verdict
Luke Gentile
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Entrepreneur and GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy came to the defense of former President Donald Trump after the 45th president was ordered to pay $5 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll.
A nine-person New York jury handed down the verdict against Trump on Tuesday after they unanimously found, after three hours of deliberation, he was liable for sexual assault and defamation, but not enough evidence was presented to affirm that the former president raped Carroll at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.
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Ramaswamy decried the verdict as the “establishment’s anaphylactic response against its chief political allergen,” according to a statement from the GOP candidate shared by NBC News reporter Allan Smith.
“I wasn’t one of the jurors and I’m not privy to all the facts that they have, but I’ll say what everyone else is privately thinking: if the defendant weren’t named Donald Trump, would there even be a lawsuit?” the statement read.
“Based on the sheer timing of the allegations — that the alleged offense occurred in the mid-1990s and Ms. Carroll did not sue until 2019-2022, far beyond the normal statute of limitations for the underlying offense, and in the middle of spate of other legal charges against Trump for other ancient allegations — this seems like just another par of the establishment’s anaphylactic response against its chief political allergen: Donald Trump.”
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It would be “easier” for Ramaswamy if he did not have to contest for the GOP nomination with Trump, but it is not right for politicians in this country to have the laws weaponized against them to undercut their chances of winning an election, he said.
“I want to win this race by showing voters how I will take the America First movement beyond Trump,” Ramaswamy concluded. “I look forward to facing him on the debate stage.”