Vivek Ramaswamy has talked about 9/11 in ways competitive presidential candidates have not, and when pressed, his defenses have run into trouble.
Up until fairly recently, the nation’s major political parties had effectively no tolerance for conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. To swim in such waters was to guarantee exile from the American mainstream. But in contemporary Republican politics, those standards are being tested.created an online video
In the GOP’s presidential race, Vivek Ramaswamy hasn’t gone as far as Greene, but he has talked about the terrorist attacks in ways competitive presidential candidates have not.the findings of the 9/11 Commission. In reference to the 2001 attacks, the GOP candidate added, “I haven’t seen evidence to the contrary, but do I believe everything the government told us about it? Absolutely not.
“I mean, I would take the truth about 9/11,” Ramaswamy said, suggesting he did not already have the necessary facts. “I am not questioning what we—this is not something I’m staking anything out on. But I want the truth about 9/11.”
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