Ramaswamy Fever
Ramaswamy Fever
This young business leader is infecting the minds of disenchanted voters looking for change. But some skeletons in the young entrepreneur's closet are troubling and should be scrutinized.
Chances are you didn’t watch the GOP debate tonight.
Why would you? Most “candidates” participating are a joke and have zero chance of getting elected.
More likely, you watched Tucker interview The Don.
The few still interested in tonight’s Republican debate are doing so because they caught the Ramaswamy fever.
I’m talking about Vivek Ramaswamy. He’s the one GOP candidate besides Donald Trump getting positive media buzz. I’m noticing folks who lean to the right are getting caught up in what Ramaswamy says on the campaign trail.
His ideas sound like a fresh alternative to those suffering from Trump battle fatigue. Most Republicans still back DJT, but I see libertarians and some conservatives posting positive things about Ramaswamy. Currently, mainstream conservative outlets like FOX News give the pharmaceutical billionaire lots of glowing airtime.
However, accusations are swirling around Ramaswamy online, causing people to pump the brakes on the Swamy train.
Three ugly accusations are making the rounds against Ramaswamy—let’s look at each one and see what is true and what’s false.
1. Ramaswamy is a member of the World Economic Forum.
Is this true?
Ramaswamy was indeed listed at one point on the WEF website as a member of the Young Global Leaders.
However, he claims he “turned down their award” and requested to be removed from the list, but he says the WEF refused to take him off their website.
So, Ramaswamy sued the WEF and recently won in court.
“Two years ago, WEF tried to throw false bait by naming me a ‘Young Global Leader’ when I explicitly rejected their ridiculous award. They repeatedly failed to remove my name despite escalating demands. So, I sued them. And we just succeeded,” Ramaswamy wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday.
In a letter from the World Economic Forum’s lawyers that Ramaswamy also posted an image to X, written ostensibly to “apologize for this mistake,” the organization’s representatives say that “the Forum acknowledges that this continued inclusion on a [Young Global Leaders material] may have incorrectly implied an association with the Forum, and for that reason, the Forum apologizes for its unintentional error.” (source)
This sounds good—but Ramaswamy was on the Young Global Leaders list two years before he ran for President. Why did he file a lawsuit only four months ago? He didn’t mind being on the WEF “up-and-comer” list for the first 20 months.
This smacks of political opportunism by a candidate discovering that the GOP base is no fan of people associated with the WEF. Is that why he recently fought in court to get his name removed?
2. Ramaswamy is a paid puppet for George Soros and controlled by the Soros family.
The accusation goes back to a scholarship Ramaswamy won in 2010 when he was a 24-year-old college student headed to law school.
Yes, this is accurate in the context of a college scholarship from a foundation run by George Soros’ brother—Paul Soros, who is now deceased.
Ramaswamy admits publicly that he accepted a $90,000 college scholarship from George Soros’s brother. You can still find his bio listed on the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans website:
Ramaswamy quickly points out that Paul Soros “made his money independently” and that Paul is “now dead.”
And the way he sees it, turning down the scholarship would have been “foolish,” and anyone who would turn down such a scholarship “probably should have no place anywhere near the White House doing trade deals on behalf of this country.”
Yes, Ramaswamy’s education received significant financial backing from a member of the Soros family. Does this make Ramaswamy beholden to billionaire and WEF member George Soros?
Maybe.
3. Ramaswamy loves masks and pushed for mandatory mask-wearing during COVID.
Yes, he did tweet this back in July of 2020:
Three years later, Ramaswamy’s revisionist history is “sus,” as the kids say.
In a video, he claims his early embrace of masks was his reaction to Anthony Fauci’s initial advice not to wear masks because they don’t work, and we shouldn’t buy them all up so healthcare professionals can have enough masks for their jobs.
It seems like a flimsy explanation, considering Ramaswamy’s tweet was in July of 2020, long after Fauci made those early statements against masks. Fauci was entirely on board with masks by July of that year—so his attempts to paint this tweet as an “antigovernment” statement seem laughable. I’m not buying this story.
Conclusions
From now on, I recommend taking Ramaswamy’s advice: “Stay skeptical.”
That’s what he encourages people following him to do—and we will, right? Because we have good reasons to do so.
His leadership potential and Ivy League resume grabbed the elites’ attention years ago. Did they make Ramaswamy a “Young Global Leader” to lure the young man to join them? Or is there more to it?
Ramaswamy has the right to change his views over time. But the timing of his opinion variations breeds suspicion. When you run for President—every move you make is scrutinized. The WEF doesn’t stick someone on their website without careful consideration—let’s not forget that.
And if the rumors are true that we will see mask mandates coming this fall—we will see if Ramaswamy stands firm in his claims to oppose mask mandates.
At 37 years old, Ramaswamy may be a flash in the political pan. He may never run again after losing the primary to Trump.
Or could Ramaswamy team up with Trump…Vice President Ramaswamy?
I’ll close with a video Ramaswamy posted a month ago when he addressed these “knives” of “masks,” “WEF,” and “Soros” coming at him from critics.
He does address these points. But his he sincere?
Stay skeptical, my friend.
VP Ramaswamy?
I think that if you don't have what it takes to be POTUS, you don't have what it takes to be VPOTUS.
Isn't that now pretty obvious?
I completely agree. I listened to Vivek a few months ago on an interview and he said something (unfortunately, I cannot remember the specific) that jarred me and I said to myself that this guy is NOT a freedom lover. People need to listen more critically, and not be swayed by the flavor of the moment.