Trump 2024 opponent Vivek Ramaswamy slams possible looming indictment: 'Dark moment in American history'

Republican statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy criticized rumors of President Trump's imaginable looming indictment connected Saturday, calling it "un-American" to prosecute the erstwhile president.

"It is un-American for the ruling enactment to usage constabulary powerfulness to apprehension its governmental rivals," the entrepreneur said connected Twitter. "If a Republican authoritative successful 2004 had utilized a run concern technicality to apprehension then-candidate John Kerry portion Bush & Cheney were successful power, liberals would person cried foul - and rightly so."

"This volition people a acheronian infinitesimal successful American past and volition undermine nationalist spot successful our electoral strategy itself," Ramaswamy continued. "I telephone connected the Manhattan District Attorney to reconsider this enactment and to enactment speech partisan authorities successful work of preserving our Constitutional republic.

The Manhattan territory attorney’s office is reportedly readying to indict the erstwhile president regarding his alleged hush wealth ungraded with porn prima Stormy Daniels.

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Vivek Ramaswamy departs aft speaking astatine the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Friday, March 3, 2023, astatine National Harbor successful Oxon Hill, Md.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

During his 2016 statesmanlike campaign, Trump's then-lawyer Michael Cohen allegedly sent $130,000 to Daniels to forestall her from publicizing her 2006 matter with Trump. Cohen was allegedly reimbursed by Trump done installments.

Prosecutors volition apt reason that the $130,000 outgo to Daniels was an improper donation to the Trump campaign, arsenic Daniels' NDA helped his candidacy.

A tribunal root informed Fox News Digital that members of Alvin Bragg's bureau volition conscionable with instrumentality enforcement to "discuss logistics for immoderate clip adjacent week, which would mean that they are anticipating an indictment adjacent week."

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Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump astatine a rally successful Arizona. (Brandon Bell)

President Trump has lashed retired astatine the reports connected Saturday morning, encouraging his followers to protest.

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"NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!," Trump wrote connected Truth Social.

President Donald Trump speaks during a property briefing with the coronavirus task force, successful the Brady property briefing country astatine the White House, Monday, March 16, 2020, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Fox News' Kyle Morris contributed to this report.