Tonight, presidential candidate and political outsider Vivek Ramaswamy filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) following the DOJ’s failure to substantively respond to Mr. Ramaswamy’s previously-filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to uncover what White House officials including President Joe Biden communicated to Merrick Garland and Jack Smith about the unprecedented indictment in the classified documents case of a former U.S. President and one of Biden’s political opponents in the 2024 Presidential election. Mr. Ramaswamy is also filing a separate FOIA request with the DOJ to uncover any similar communications relating to the just-issued January 6 Trump indictment.
Mr. Ramaswamy will share details of the lawsuit at his pre-scheduled ‘WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH’ press conference tomorrow, August 2 in Nashville, TN at 1 PM CT.
“My aim in bringing this lawsuit is to finally deliver accountability and transparency: what did Biden and his cronies tell Garland and what did Garland and the deep-staters who put him in as Attorney General tell Jack Smith. That’s the real target. These indictments selectively omit relevant facts and law – this is shameful. The corrupt federal police won’t stop until they’ve achieved their mission: eliminate Trump. This is un-American. I commit to pardoning Trump for these indictments, and I will get to the bottom of whose invisible hand is truly guiding it.
“In U.S. v. Alvarez, the Supreme Court held that political candidates have a First Amendment right to knowingly make inaccurate statements. If you’re going to indict a former president and leading presidential candidate, it better not be based on unprecedented legal theory. Further, it’s more than a stretch to call something criminal if someone is seeking legal counsel from their own lawyers. Jack Smith has created a dangerous precedent by criminalizing the behavior of Trump’s lawyers who offered him legal advice, labeling them co-conspirators instead. This jeopardizes the future of our legal system.
“Donald Trump isn’t the real cause for what happened on Jan 6. The real cause was systematic and pervasive censorship of citizens in the year leading up to it. If you tell people they can’t speak, that’s when they scream. If you tell people they can’t scream, that’s when they tear things down. If we fail to admit the truth, Jan. 6 will just be a preview of far worse to come, and I don’t want to see us get there.”
