Ramaswamy on 9/11
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This is becoming a bit of a kerfuffle...
Ramaswamy: Yeah. Absolutely. Why can the government not be transparent about something that we’re using? Terrorists, or the kind of tactics used to fight terrorists. If we find that there are hundreds of our own in the ranks on the day that they were, that they were—I mean, look …
Hendrickson: Well, there’s a difference between entrapment and a difference between a law-enforcement agent identifying—
Ramaswamy: I think it is legitimate to say, How many police, how many federal agents were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers? Like, I think we want—maybe the answer is zero, probably is zero for all I know, right? I have no reason to think it was anything other than zero. But if we’re doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 9/11, we have a 9/11 commission, absolutely that should be an answer the public knows the answer to.
Yeah, this is problematic.
You can bet that this will be a major talking point at the GOP debate.
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The part about American agents on the planes is apparently a misquote. The reporter can not produce the recording of Vivek saying that. Vivek does have questions about American agents in the crowd in January 6. Maybe the reporter got confused.
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The part about American agents on the planes is apparently a misquote. The reporter can not produce the recording of Vivek saying that. Vivek does have questions about American agents in the crowd in January 6. Maybe the reporter got confused.
@Horace said in Ramaswamy on 9/11:
The reporter can not produce the recording of Vivek saying that.
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@Horace said in Ramaswamy on 9/11:
The reporter can not produce the recording of Vivek saying that.
@George-K said in Ramaswamy on 9/11:
@Horace said in Ramaswamy on 9/11:
The reporter can not produce the recording of Vivek saying that.
Thanks. I just saw an interview on his Twitter feed where he says the reporter couldn’t produce the recording. Anyway it’s pretty obvious that he tripped himself up going from Jan 6 to 9/11. And he says he has no reason to believe in American agents on the planes. And he was explicit in the cnn interview that of course 9/11 wasn’t an inside job.
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I know. It's one of those "I'm just asking questions" comments. But it came out all wrong, and it'll feed into the conspiracy folks.
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I know. It's one of those "I'm just asking questions" comments. But it came out all wrong, and it'll feed into the conspiracy folks.
@George-K said in Ramaswamy on 9/11:
I know. It's one of those "I'm just asking questions" comments. But it came out all wrong, and it'll feed into the conspiracy folks.
The only thing it’ll really feed, is talking points against him. I doubt he’ll make a dent in 9/11 conspiracy theorizing one way or another.
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Good conversation about the incident:
Link to video
They both agree to the obvious, that Ramaswamy wasn't intending to present a 9/11 conspiracy about American agents on planes as plausible. But they also talk about how Ramaswamy could have walked back that miscue more forthrightly. I agree he would have looked better if he'd just admitted he misspoke, and moved on. He didn't need to frame the reporter's questions as a disingenuous politically motivated attacks.
