While addressing a crowd of Iowa voters, Indian-origin Ramaswamy said, "I would speak the truth and lose an election rather than winning by playing some political snakes and ladders."
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the case, said in a statement on Wednesday that the trial "revealed the full extent" of Trump's fraud and his "inability to disprove it."
The decision to hold a vote came as House Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team faced growing pressure to show progress in what has become a nearly yearlong probe centred around the business dealings of Biden's family members.
The former president, the leading contender for the 2024 Republican nomination, had been expected to return to the witness stand on Monday as a coda to his defence against New York Attorney General Letitia James ' lawsuit.
Biden's remarks come as even staunch Democratic voters have expressed concerns about the president's age. He turned 81 years old last month. Biden reiterated the sentiment upon returning to the White House saying “I expect so, but look he is running, and I have to run.”
James alleges that Donald Trump, his company and executives including his sons exaggerated his wealth by billions of dollars on financial statements given to banks, insurers and others. The documents were used to secure loans and make deals.
As former US President Donald Trump reached the courtroom in New York to testify himself in a civil fraud case, he denied any wrongdoing and dubbed the trial "a political attack on him", BBC reported.
According to the investigators, US President Joe Biden had kept the highly sensitive documents at his Delaware home, as well as at a private office that he used in between his service in the Obama administration and becoming president.
Among the allegations was that Trump claimed his Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan - a three-story penthouse replete with gold-plated fixtures - was nearly three times its actual size and worth an astounding $327 million.
Ramaswamy said, currently, presidents act like “puppets” who can’t implement policies.
If the current date holds, it would represent a setback to Trump’s efforts to push the case back until well after the 2024 presidential election, a contest in which he’s the early front-runner for the Republican nomination.
Trump is the prohibitive early front-runner in the race, raising serious questions about whether the party will have much of a competitive primary.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that when Trump surrenders there will be a “hard lockdown” of the area surrounding the main county jail.
The decision marks another chapter in Trump’s ongoing feud with Fox, which was once a staunch defender but is now perceived to be more favourable to his leading rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
In all, eight Republican candidates have met the Republican National Committee’s fundraising and polling thresholds required to qualify for the debate next Wednesday, Aug. 23, hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee. Trump is among them, although he has said publicly and privately that he’s leaning against
Also, Trump referred to Biden as 'crooked Joe Biden,' and 'the most corrupt president in American history'.
"This morning, the governor was in a car accident while travelling to an event in Chattanooga, Tennessee," Press Secretary Bryan Griffin said.
The latest declaration set up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House ended with an insurrection at the US Capitol and Pence fleeing for his life.
The latest declaration set up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House ended with an insurrection at the US Capitol and Pence fleeing for his life.
“I’ve already made that calculus. We’ll announce it relatively soon. But the trip here just reinforced my sense of optimism about what can be done," Biden said.
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