Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy       (businessman, US/2024 Presidential election/Candidate)
Born	Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy 9 August 1985 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Alma mater	Harvard University, Yale University
Member of	Soros Fellows/2011, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2021
Republican candidate in the US/2024 Presidential election

“I have a dream that the people we elect to run the government will be the ones who actually run the government.”
Vivek Ramaswamy

Background

Vivek Ramaswamy is a Republican candidate in the US/2024 Presidential election. American entrepreneur, author, and conservative political activist. He is the third candidate to announce for the Republican nomination for president, notably young and outspoken compared with other rivals to Trump. Ramaswamy released his list of potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it is superb particularly in excluding Deep State and pro-federal prosecution candidates. He is a "multi-millionaire biotech entrepreneur and self-described intellectual godfather of the anti-woke movement," and has been promoted by the Fox News Channel. Ramaswamy authored Woke, Inc. (2021) and Nation of Victims (2022), which criticized the Leftist mindset. He delivered a lecture on his book Woke, Inc. and answered questions from members, at the Council on Foreign Relations, Oct 6, 2021, as a guest speaker, according to AI search, but link is broken on CFR site.

Education

In 2011, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans awarded Ramaswamy a post-graduate fellowship. Controversy erupted over Ramaswamy's alleged payoff of a Wikipedia editor to remove Soros connection from his Wikipedia page. In 2013, he earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. At that time, Ramaswamy was already wealthy from his involvement in the finance, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries; he said in 2023 that he had a net worth of around $15 million before graduating from law school. Forbes lists current net worth at roughly $600 million.

2024 Campaign Promises

Vivek has promised to rescind EO 11246, which was issued by leftist-Democrat President LBJ and which coined the phrase "affirmative action." Vivek blames Republican presidents for never rescinding it. Vivek said about the partisan Democrat arrest of President Trump, "It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals...This will mark a dark moment in American history and will undermine public trust in our electoral system itself." Ramaswamy gave rival candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis until 9am on March 21st to likewise condemn this abuse of county prosecutorial power by Democrats. As of the afternoon of March 20, Haley and DeSantis had failed to condemn this abuse.

Big Pharma Vivek Ramaswamy: Pfizer Deal, Soros & More. The New MAGA Darling? Video describes Ramaswamy as a "Pharma-bro", who profited from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Fact Checking Campaign Claims

Fact-Check: Did the Soros Family Help Vivek Ramaswamy Go to Law School? Ramaswamy, who has surged to third place in the Real Clear Politics average of polls (just ahead of former Vice President Mike Pence), has found himself the target of a number of “gotcha!” accusations of late, including that he is:

• An agent of the World Economic Forum
• Connected to George Soros
• Bought by the Soros family
• Pro-COVID masking

Ramaswamy recorded a video refuting each of these claims. The video however appears to dispute the wrong claims, diverting attention to lesser evils. He's been falsely claimed as an "agent of the WEF" and member of the World Economic Forum, and that part is true. However, he was inducted as a Young Global Leader of the WEF, Class of 2021. In 2021, Ramaswamy was silent and didn't object to his WEF YGL listing. It wasn't until he announced his candidacy for president in 2023, and opposition began appearing, that he demanded his name be removed from the WEF site and threatened to sue to have it removed. His second point - directly connected to George Soros, appears untrue. His post graduate scholarship to Yale law school was not paid for by George Soros and was paid instead by a foundation controlled by Soros' elder brother, Paul Soros. However, on Aug 15, 2021, Ramaswamy praised George Soros on Twitter, "Well said, George Soros: 'I consider Mr. Xi the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world.'" Then on July 19, 2023, unable to shake his connection to George Soros, he changed tactics and claimed Trump took a $160-million loan from George Soros to build his real estate empire, so why should it be wrong for him to take money too? The video 'Big Pharma Vivek Ramaswamy: Pfizer Deal, Soros & More. The New MAGA Darling?' explains his various flipflops and contradictions. Therefore, his claim that he has no connection to George Soros, isn't entirely true. The claim "Pro-COVID masking" was refuted by an article in 'Western Journal'. In 2020, Ramaswamy criticized conservatives for not wearing masks, claiming they were effective in slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Ramaswamy had a far worse connection to COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology, holding patents for nano-vaccines, Ramaswamy's former company Genevant Sciences, a portfolion company of Roivant Sciences, is suing Pfizer and Moderna, claiming patent infringement on enabling delivery on the mRNA spike proteins to cells, that Ramaswamy's company patented. Ramaswamy was founder and CEO of Roivant from 2014-2021. He is not personally involved in the lawsuit.. In 2021, Ramaswamy's company sought to nationalize private health records to create a database of COVID-19 status, without patient's permission.

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