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Can American voters trust rising Republican star Vivek Ramaswamy?

2023-09-03

[RT] As many Americans are now familiarizing themselves with Vivek Ramaswamy, a smooth-talking Republican candidate who is quickly climbing in the polls, it might be wise to read the fine print on this novice first.

...In addition to supporting many of the talking points found in Donald Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) platform, Ramaswamy swore his loyalty to the legally embattled 45th president when he gratuitously pronounced during the primaries, "Let’s just speak the truth, okay? President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 21st century. It’s a fact."

The comment, which attracted no shortage of cheap applause, came off as rather stiff and unexpected considering that Trump is still very much in the presidential race, despite facing multiple criminal charges. Even stranger is that Ramaswamy’s support for Trump seems to change with the legal seasons.

On August 1, federal prosecutors presented their 45-page indictment against Trump, alleging that he pressed election officials to reject voting results in their states in order to overturn the election. Ramaswamy blasted the latest round of indictments targeting the Republican Party’s top candidate, writing on X (formerly Twitter): "Donald Trump isn’t the cause of what happened on Jan 6. The real cause was systematic & pervasive censorship of citizens in the year leading up to it. If you tell people they can’t speak, that’s when they scream."

Yet compare that to what Ramaswamy had to say about Trump’s response to the January 6 insurrection/protest/rebellion/riot/take your pick just days after the Capitol building was breached by hundreds of Orange Man supporters.

"What Trump did last week was wrong. Downright abhorrent. Plain and simple."

Still, that is nothing compared to what the pharmaceutical mogul had to say about Trump in his 2022 book, ’Nation of Victims’, which sounds as though it were penned by the most progressive leftist in the Democratic Party.

"It was a dark day for democracy. The loser of the last election refused to concede the race, claimed the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters, and is considering running for executive office again.

I’m referring, of course, to Donald Trump."

...Questions about the ’skinny guy with the funny-sounding name,’ however, do not end there. In 2011, Ramaswamy accepted a $90,000 scholarship from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which was founded by Daisy and Paul Soros, the now-deceased older brother of billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.
And that tells me all I want to know about him

Posted by:Grom the Reflective

#7 Give him five talents. Trust him with more based on his track record. He has some charisma, but trust no one until they prove it.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-09-03 17:18

#6 I don't trust him. Of course, I didn't trust Trump either.

Posted by: Angstrom 2023-09-03 16:25

#5 Paul Soros was nothing like his asshole brother

Of course not.
George Soros came to UK as a penniless refugee and became a billionaire by being smarter that everybody else in financial markets.
Paul Soros came to USA as a penniless defector, barely finished his engineering degree without starving, and then made a genius invention that made him a multi-millionaire.
Practically a fairy story of success, albeit without a fairy godmother.
Interestingly, each used his money to gain influence with one of the two USA mainstreams.
And they say life is not stranger than fiction!

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 16:08

#4 There's a clip out there from 8-10 years ago with Vivek on Cramer's CNBC show. Geeeeezus, Cramer can really pick 'em (SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, "don't sell Bear Stearns").

Vivek pulled some b.s. with a pharma company, and he and his family cashed in their stock for billions of dollars. Surely he's not the only one, but he's the the squeaky-clean articulate GOPer we are supposed to believe.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-09-03 15:47

#3 Ramaswamy accepted a $90,000 scholarship from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which was founded by Daisy and Paul Soros, the now-deceased older brother of billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.

As I understand it - Paul Soros was nothing like his asshole brother, and the scholarship was for young conservatives. I won't vote for VR til he grows up, learns foreign policy, and has a better track record, but c'mon...

Posted by: Frank G 2023-09-03 14:11

#2 He is young. I would like to see him be given some job like cleaning up the FDA. If he is a plant, that assignment would reveal him.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-09-03 13:16

#1 Quick answer: no.
Long answer: also no.
(Trust a politician? I've heard of playing stupid, but you ain't playin', are ya?)

Posted by: ed in texas 2023-09-03 13:14

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