Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy launched a “TRUTH. Over Myth” link on his 2024 campaign website on Monday morning, an effort his aides said will push back against the “lies” surrounding his campaign.
The new link is meant to address “the BS, baloney, lies, and planted trash peddled by insecure campaigns, Super PAC puppets, ‘listless vessels’ of the political establishment, and fake establishment media,” according to the description on the campaign website.
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Ramaswamy’s campaign link addresses some of his comments and the blowback he has faced over several topics, including his stance on financial aid to Israel and alleged conspiracy theory comments about 9/11.
In the “Vivek Doesn’t Support Israel: ?” section, the campaign attacks fellow 2024 rival and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who slammed Ramaswamy’s foreign policy stance in the lead-up to and during the Republican National Committee debate last week.
“WRONG. Keep lying, Namrata Randhawa,” the campaign writes in a misspelling of Haley’s first name, Nimarata, and a callback to her maiden name, Randhawa. “The desperation is showing. By the end of Vivek’s first term, the U.S.-Israel relationship will be deeper and stronger than ever because it won’t be a client relationship, it will be a true friendship.”
Ramaswamy claimed in an interview that he would consider cutting off aid to Israel in 2028, when a $38 billion U.S. package ended, to which Haley struck back, saying Ramaswamy was “completely wrong” to suggest it. But now, his campaign claims Ramaswamy “won’t cut aid to Israel until Israel tells the U.S. that it no longer needs the aid. That’s what true friends do: they’re honest with each other. We expect that of our friends in Israel. And when Israel gets to that point, we should all rightly celebrate it as a mark of achievement and pride for both the U.S. and Israel.”
In the “Vivek is a 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist!” section, the campaign tackles a dust-up Ramaswamy faced with CNN and the Atlantic last week.
“This one is funny. Vivek isn’t obsessed with 9/11 as a topic, but the media certainly seems to be when they’re around him,” the campaign writes. “Vivek has never once proactively brought up 9/11 on the campaign trail or in media interviews, but he speaks candidly when asked: The U.S. government absolutely did not tell us the entire truth about 9/11.”
Ramaswamy claimed to CNN host Kaitlan Collins that he was misquoted during an interview with the Atlantic, in which he made comments about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. It probably is zero for all I know, right? I have no reason to think it was anything other than zero,” Ramaswamy said.
The journalist who conducted the interview pushed back last week by releasing the audio and transcript of the interview in which Ramaswamy made those comments verbatim.
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Other topics addressed on the website include Ramaswamy’s standing on the legalization of hard drugs, mask mandates, his voting record, and George Soros.
A political novice, Ramaswamy has surged in national polls, often in third place behind former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). A RealClearPolitics polling average shows Ramaswamy polling at 7.5% among Republican primary voters. The rise in his poll numbers led to more heated attacks from his rivals, including Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence, during the GOP primary debate last week.
