Vivek Ramaswamy Says He Wouldn’t Seek to Charge Biden If Elected President

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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, if elected to the White House, would not pursue charges against Joe Biden over the current president’s handling of classified documents while out of office, Ramaswamy told ABC News on Wednesday.

His comments stand in stark contrast to current GOP front-runner Donald Trump, who promised in a speech after being arraigned on federal charges on Tuesday that, if he retakes the White House, he’ll “appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president and the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden.”

Ramaswamy, though, took another view.

“I think that as part of a broader vision of laying down arms, 360 degrees, that we’re agreeing to put the past in the past and we’re ready to move forward,” the 37-year-old entrepreneur said. “That would be my way of governing.”

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