The presidential candidates acknowledges the importance of the issue and credits Vivek Ramaswamy for bringing it to his attention.
A former President of the United States and a current presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has once again mentioned the topic of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), “giving full credit” to Vivek Ramaswamy, who has dropped out of the Republican presidential primaries a week ago.
During the rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, on Jan. 22, Trump told the audience that Ramaswamy, the only presidential candidate with a crypto framework in his program, asked him to raise once again the question of tackling the potential CBDC in the U.S. After a brief confession that he didn’t like Ramaswamy until he defeated him, Trump repeated his recent claim that he would never allow the CBDC.
The first time Trump mentioned the CBDC was during a campaign speech in Portsmouth, another city in New Hampshire, on Jan. 17. Back then, he said, “I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency,” explaining that such a currency would give a federal government “the absolute control” over citizens’ money.
