Legendary Silicon Valley investor Naval Ravikant told Megyn Kelly that his legal battle against former President Donald Trump has brought him “off the sidelines,” adding that the moment “we start weaponizing the law against our enemies” will mark “the beginning of the end” and a descent into “a full-on banana republic.”
“What really got me off the sidelines was law enforcement, which is really disgusting, because we're going to have a military coup and a military junta that turns us into a full-on banana republic,” Ravikant told Kelly on a recent show. The Megyn Kelly ShowRavikant is the co-founder and former CEO of AngelList and has invested in over 200 Silicon Valley startups over the course of an incredibly successful, decades-long career.
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“The moment we start selectively using the law as a weapon against our enemies, that's the beginning of the end,” Ravikant continued.
The entrepreneur then quoted former Peruvian president Oscar R. Benavides' famous words: “For your friends, everything, for your enemies, the law.”
“So when you assign responsibility and you decide who the law applies to, you're going down a very dangerous path — a dangerous path, by the way, that is real,” Ravikant said.
“If you actually look at the allegations that were brought against Mr. Trump, and I actually read them pretty carefully, they were completely fabricated. Completely fabricated,” Ravikant continued.
“They violated the statute of limitations, attempted to create felonies without evidence and misclassified 'business expenses.' When you have complex business transactions, like I do and many others do, something is bound to be found,” he added.
Ravikant further added:
It's this selective prosecution, this selective persecution that allows them to get away with it. And a lot of the progressive DA movement that George Soros and others create is based on the understanding that, “Actually, we can choose whether or not to prosecute certain people. And these offices are very cheap to run because they're in areas where the voters are very favorable to us or there's no organized opposition, so let's organize and take control of the prosecutions.”
That's exactly what happened in San Francisco. If you want to sue Kamala Harris, it's the fact that she was the district attorney of San Francisco and that San Francisco is in chaos. And in fact, after that she [Los Angeles County District Attorney] George Gascon is the guy that's destroying Los Angeles by basically not prosecuting criminals and going after business owners, so this selective prosecution is a disaster.
“You can have all-blue states and all-red states, all-blue juries and all-red juries, and you can basically creatively interpret these endless laws that you have to convict someone of a crime,” Ravikant explained.
“I think there's a famous saying that goes, 'If you find us, we'll find your crime,'” he added. “If someone commits a crime, we'll find them.”
“The moment you start breaking down these walls and start weaponizing justice, this is the scary thing,” Ravikant argued. “This will either end the republic or turn it into a one-party state, known as a dictatorship.”
The investor added, “China is a one-party state. North Korea is a one-party state too,” adding, “I don't use the term 'one-party state' lightly.”
Ravikant also noted that “Hillary Clinton destroyed her email server with Breachbit” but “there were no repercussions,” adding, “Hunter Biden's laptop turned out to be the real deal, but who would have known? We were told by the intelligence community that it was all false.”
“I think the weaponization of the justice system, the demand for justice, leads to violence, and that leads to the disintegration of our country, the division of our country and worse,” he added.
Ravikant continued.
They start going after political opponents, and then Alvin Bragg runs a clear campaign to defeat Trump, and then they start digging around and inventing all sorts of charges and going after him. [with] The most favorable jurors, in the most favorable parts of the country, and justice controls the evidence and the narrative, that is the beginning of the end.
“The people in Silicon Valley and the donors who are supporting this legal war are dead to me,” Ravikant added. “They're destroying their own positions. Do they think they're next?”
At that point, Kelly interjected: “I hope so.”
“Ah, in the end [they’re] “When people are pushed against a wall, they start fantasizing about revenge,” Ravikant said. Kelly replied, “I mean, that's the only way they learn.”
“It's a really sad situation,” Ravikant said.
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