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GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy defends rival Donald Trump: ‘Bad judgment is not the same thing as a crime’

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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Sunday defended former President Donald Trump, who faces a special counsel investigation regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests.

The biotech entrepreneur, during an appearance on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ responded to being slammed for not criticizing Trump a month before the first GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee. 

‘I’ve been consistent all along,’he said, ‘that I would have made different judgments than Donald Trump made – that is why I’m running in this race for the presidency – the same race that he’s in. Because I would have made different and, I believe, better judgments for the country.’ 

‘But a bad judgment is not the same thing as a crime,’ Ramaswamy continued. ‘And when we conflate the two, that sets a dangerous precedent for this country. I don’t want to see us become some banana republic where the party in power uses police force to arrest its political opponents.’ 

‘Now that I’m third in the national polls, self-interestedly it would be much easier for me to win this election if Trump were not the front-runner – if Trump were eliminated by the federal administrative police state. But that’s not the right thing for the country,’ he added.  

In a recent Fox News survey of Iowa Republicans, Trump received 46% support among likely Iowa GOP caucus goers, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis received 16% and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., received 11%.  Ramaswamy came in fourth, polling at 6%. 

In South Carolina, another recent Fox News poll found Trump leading by more than 30 points. Ramaswamy came in sixth place in that poll at just 3%. 

Ramaswamy contended that he was ‘not running against anyone,’ including rival GOP presidential candidates and Democrat President Biden, stressing that he was running for the ‘vision of what it means to be American.’

‘We don’t want a super PAC puppet,’ Ramaswamy said. ‘We want an independent voice, and a patriot who actually speaks the truth. That’s’ what I’m bringing to the race.’ 

In a past book, Ramaswamy argued that Trump wrongfully claimed he did not lose the 2020 election and raised millions of dollars off his supporters, ‘Fox News Sunday’ host Shannon Bream noted. ‘What Trump did last week was wrong. Downright abhorrent. Plain and simple,’ Ramaswamy previously tweeted on Jan. 12, 2021. ‘I’ve said it before and did so in my piece.’ 

During the appearance, Ramaswamy responded to Trump’s recent comments describing Chinese President Xi Jinping as ‘brilliant’ and ‘an iron fist.’ Ramaswamy said Xi ‘is a dictator, and China is the top threat that the United States faces,’ arguing that he stands apart from other 2024 candidates, including Trump, in campaigning for ‘economic independence’ from China. 

Ramaswamy said he also has laid out a foreign policy plan based on pulling apart the China-Russian alliance. 

‘NATO was created to deter the USSR. The USSR does not exist anymore, yet NATO has expanded more after the fall of the USSR than it ever did during the USSR’s existence. So I think we have to ask the question of, ‘What advances American interests?’’ Ramaswamy said. ‘And to me, the top American interest is pulling apart the China-Russia alliance – that ends the Ukraine war, that stops us from having to fund another hundreds of billions of dollars to protect somebody else’s border that we could be using to protect our own border. And more importantly, this is also how we deter Xi Jinping from going after Taiwan.’ 

Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

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