{"id":4842,"date":"2024-03-28T01:52:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2024-03-28T01:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:52:50","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-calls-for-letitia-james-to-be-disbarred-threat-to-every-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/vivek-ramaswamy-calls-for-letitia-james-to-be-disbarred-threat-to-every-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy Calls For Letitia James To Be Disbarred: \u2018Threat To Every American\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has called for Attorney General Letitia James to be disbarred over her civil fraud case against Donald Trump and the $454 million fine he is ordered to pay. The former Republican presidential candidate argued that the fine imposed on Trump violates the 8th Amendment and represents a \u201cthreat to every American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Letitia James crusade against Donald Trump is disgusting and is a threat to every American.\u00a0When you have prosecutors who are elected to office on a promise of going after one particular individual as she campaigned on,\u00a0then go on to keep a campaign promise using the legal system to do it, it\u2019s unjust,\u201d Ramaswamy said in a video statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was released after news broke that James has taken initial steps to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trendingpoliticsnews.com\/just-in-letitia-james-gears-up-to-seize-trumps-westchester-golf-course-cmc\/\">seize former President Trump\u2019s 140-acre Trump National Golf Club Westchester and Seven Springs estate<\/a>, both of which are located in the New York suburb of Westchester. James has long vowed to seize Trump\u2019s properties if he is unable to pay the fine by Monday, something Trump\u2019s attorneys have referred to as \u201ca practical impossibility,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy Calls For Letitia James To Be Disbarred: &amp;apos;Threat To Every American&amp;apos;\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v4i4i36\/?pub=4#?secret=BWRKRYXCta\" data-secret=\"BWRKRYXCta\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v4i4i36\">\n<div id=\"vid_v4i4i36\" class=\"rumble_v4i4i36-Rumble-cls\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"bigPlayUI ctp\">\n<div class=\"bigPlayUIInner ctp\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ramaswamy went on to point out that the alleged \u201ccrime\u201d had no victims, as financial providers agreed to provide Trump with loans on his properties, which were then paid back in full, plus interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd yet Letitia James is using a consumer protection statute to literally make up numbers and say, \u2018Hey, you have hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties that you owe. You have bond to post by a particular date of an unreasonable magnitude that even no billionaire is going to regularly able to meet and to say, if you don\u2019t do it, I\u2019m going to start seizing your property,\u2019\u201d Ramaswamy continued. \u201cIt\u2019s disgusting.\u00a0It is a threat to not only private property, but threat to the justice system and to the\u00a0rights of every American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Republican contender \u2014 who is rumored to be in the running for a potential cabinet position if Trump wins re-election \u2014 went on to call for James to be disbarred due to 8th Amendment violations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 8th Amendment prevents the imposition of excessive bail or excessive fines. And if there\u2019s ever an example that meets that to a T, it is\u00a0the bond that\u2019s been demanded of Donald Trump\u00a0in this disgusting New York Letitia James-led prosecution,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is an opportunity for the Supreme Court to step in and say, no, we\u2019re not going to stand for this kind of lawfare, whether it\u2019s against Donald Trump or Democrat, it\u2019s wrong. We don\u2019t want to empower prosecutors to be able to use bond and bail or bonds as a way of effectively achieving a goal that they couldn\u2019t achieve through the front door, which is bankrupting an opponent, even stopping them from being able to appeal those decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy is far from the only one to call for action to be taken under the 8th Amendment. Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker has predicted that the Supreme Court will step in to either reduce the fine or toss the case entirely under 8th Amendment grounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, you know, there are supposed to be no excessive fines and, you know, no cruel and unusual punishment. It\u2019s a constitutional right. It\u2019s our founding fathers knew this was a weapon used by the state to harm citizens that were out of favor,\u201d Whitaker told Newsmax. \u201cWell, you know, 250 years later almost, here we are with this same threat because they, you know, the founding fathers understood one thing and that was human nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has until Monday to pay the entire $454 million fine before James moves to start seizing his assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has called for Attorney General Letitia James to be disbarred over her civil fraud case against Donald Trump and the $454 million fine he is ordered to pay. The former Republican presidential candidate argued that the fine imposed on Trump violates the 8th Amendment and represents a \u201cthreat to every American.\u201d \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}