he faces legal peril from prosecutors, the stronger his standing among republicans, which is no doubt why his gop rivals largely avoid confronting him for the 91 felony counts he faces. it's why in ron desantis's prep for next week's debate, his super pac has advised him to take a hammer to vivek ramaswamy but defend trump if trump is attacked by chris christie. here was some reaction after fulton county d.a. fani willis indicted trump and 18 codefendants for state rico violations. south carolina senator tim scott said this. >> we see the legal system being weaponized against political opponents. that is un-american and unacceptable. >> vivek ramaswamy said that should he become president, he would pardon trump. and he said this. >> the reality is this, these are politicized persecutions through prosecution. >> trump's former vice president