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[quote=Anonymous]
My money is on completely cynical

The youngest and first Indian American Republican candidate has made inaccurate or blatantly false claims about climate change as well as the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, while mischaracterizing his own positions and past comments. He also lied about his book’s positions in order to appeal to MAGA cult members.

[b]Fact checking Ramaswamy[/b]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/us/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-2024-campaign-fact-check.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[u]Climate change denialism [/u]
“The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.” — in the first Republican debate

False. There is no evidence to support this assertion.

The World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations agency, estimated in May that extreme weather events, compounded by climate change, caused nearly 12,000 disasters and a death toll of 2 million between 1970 and 2021. Extreme heat causes about 600 deaths in the United States a year

[u]Jan. 6 and the 2020 election loss denialism[/u]

“What percentage of the people who were armed were federal law-enforcement officers? I think it was probably high, actually. Right? There’s very little evidence of people being arrested for being armed that day. Most of the people who were armed, I assume the federal officers who were out there were armed.” — in an interview with The Atlantic in July

False. Ramaswamy has echoed the right-wing talking point that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol did not involve weapons and was largely peaceful. His spokeswoman argued that he was merely asking questions.

Recently, 104 out of about 1,100 total defendants have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon, according to the Justice Department. At least 13 face gun charges.

[u]Foreign policy[/u]

“Much of our military defense spending in the last several decades has not actually gone to national defense.” — in an interview on the Fox Business Network in August
False. A spokeswoman for Ramaswamy said he was comparing military aid to foreign countries and “homeland defense.” But the amount the US has spent on security assistance pales in comparison to general military spending and homeland security spending.

[b]Fact check: Ramaswamy makes two false claims about what he wrote in his own book[/b]

https://abc17news.com/politics/national-politics/cnn-us-politics/2023/08/31/fact-check-ramaswamy-makes-two-false-claims-about-what-he-wrote-in-his-own-book/

[b]Ramaswamy lies so much that even Donald Trump thinks “he’s starting to get out there a little bit.[/b]

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna102984

Vivek Ramaswamy lies a lot. 
Last month, at the first Republican presidential debate, he called climate change a “hoax” and said “more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change,” which is not remotely true.

He also has claimed we don’t know “the truth about Jan. 6” and spread baseless conspiracy theories about Sept. 11 — and when caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar, he said that he was misquoted (which is also a lie). He has denied criticizing Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, even though he did so in a book published just last year. And he has supported masking during the COVID-19 pandemic, pardoning Hunter Biden and cutting U.S. aid for Israel. When asked about each claim, Ramaswamy denied making them — all easily provable falsehoods.[/quote]

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