Former President Donald Trump has been stockpiling endorsements from people that some may have thought would not endorse him.
Among them have been Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk, former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Democrat Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp who the former president had feuded with.
And now another name can be added to that list.
Silicon Valley investor Naval Ravikant spoke to former Fox News host Megyn Kelly on her Sirius XM show and said that it was the “lawfare” against the former president that convinced him to support him,” Breitbart News reported.
“It was the lawfare that kind of brought me off the sidelines. It’s really disgusting behavior, because this is how you descend into a complete banana republic with military coups and military rule,” he said to the host on her show “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
“The moment you can start weaponizing the law against your enemies electively, that’s the beginning of the end,” the investor said.
He mentioned a famous quote by former Peru President Óscar R. Benavides, which said, “For my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law.”
“That is, once you’re in charge and you get to dictate who the law applies to, you’re in a very slippery slope, and slippery slopes are real, by the way,” Ravikant said.
“If you were to actually look at the charges that were brought against Trump — and I actually read them quite carefully — these were really trumped up. They were really made up,” the investor said.
“You violate the statute of limitations, you try to drum things up into a felony when there was no evidence of such, it was a miscategorization of ‘business expenses.’ When you have complex business dealings like I do and like many people do, you can always find something,” he said.
“It’s this selective prosecution, it’s a selective persecution that allows them to get away with this. And a lot of the progressive DA movement that comes out of George Soros and others is based on this understanding that, ‘Hey, actually, we can choose whether or not to prosecute certain people, and these are elected offices that are either in territory where the voters are really favorable to us or they’re really cheap to run, because there’s no organized opposition. So let’s just organize and take over prosecution,’” Ravikant continued.
“That’s what happened in San Francisco. If you want the case against Kamala Harris, it’s the fact that she was DA in San Francisco and San Francisco’s a mess. And, in fact, afterward, she advocated for [Los Angeles County District Attorney] George Gascón, who’s ]the guy destroying LA, through basically not prosecuting criminals and going after business owners. So this this selective prosecution thing is a disaster,” the investor said.
“You can take a deep blue or deep red state, you can take a deep blue or deep red jury, and you can basically creatively interpret these infinite laws that we have to find anybody guilty of a crime,” he said.
“I think there’s another famous saying, ‘You find me the man and I’ll find you the crime,’” Ravikant said, quoting Lavrentiy Beria, a police chief in Joseph Stalin’s Soviet regime.
“The moment you start breaking down this wall and you get into weaponizing justice — this is the scary stuff,” he said. “This is the stuff that ends a Republic or turns into a one-party state, better known as a dictatorship.”
“I think the weaponization of the justice system, the willingness to go into lawfare, that is a thing that will lead to violence. That is the thing that will lead to a dissolution, and a breakup, and something worse in the United States,” the investor said.
“When these guys start playing with going after their political enemies, when Alvin Bragg runs on the explicit campaign to take down Trump, and then they go hunting through and looking for anything and drumming up any charge, and go after him [with] the most— favorable juries and in the most favorable part of the country, and the just control the evidence and control the narrative, that is the beginning of the end,” he said.
“And the people who are in Silicon Valley, and the donors who are out there supporting this lawfare, they’re dead to me,” he said. “These people are destroying the ground on which they stand. Do they think they won’t be next?”
