He argued, of Trump, that “what he delivered in the end was just another tale of grievance, a persecution complex that swallowed much of the Republican party whole.” He mocked how Trump had floated the idea that a 2022 Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania was also rigged, writing sarcastically that “apparently even Republican primaries across space and time are specially rigged against Trump and his endorsed candidates.” He wrote that “what does threaten democracy…is for political parties and their candidates to deny the legitimacy of elections.”Īnd he wrote, “It was a dark day for democracy. He prominently included Trump in a section of the book titled “sore losers.” He rejected Trump’s election fraud claims as “weak.” He outlined how thoroughly these claims had been rejected by various authorities including Trump-appointed judges. Ramaswamy, a businessman, did offer some positive words about Trump in “Nation of Victims.” He wrote that he voted for Trump in 2020 because he was “the candidate who best embodied American greatness” and liked that Trump “refused to apologize for the things that make America great.”īut Ramaswamy also wrote, speaking of Trump, that he “disapproved of his large-scale government spending and his tariff policies.” More notably, he offered extended criticism of Trump’s handling of his defeat in the 2020 election. Ramaswamy said, “That’s not true.” Christie said, “Oh, it is very true.” Ramaswamy said, “That is not true.” Christie said, “It’s very true I read it.” Though Ramaswamy is running against Trump for the Republican nomination in 2024, he called Trump the “best president of the 21st century” at the Wednesday debate that Trump skipped.Ĭhristie, the former New Jersey governor, said moments later at the debate: “In your book, you had much different things to say about Donald Trump than you’re saying here tonight.” Here, we look in more detail at his two recent false claims about his book. In an article last week, we addressed Ramaswamy’s debunked claim that The Atlantic had misquoted his comments about the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. And the claim was part of a Ramaswamy pattern – noted by The New York Times in an article on Wednesday – of the candidate inaccurately describing or inaccurately denying his past public statements. He used it to baselessly attack a journalist’s integrity and to minimize his distance from Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination. But the false claim is notable regardless of how deliberate it was. It’s possible that Ramaswamy genuinely misremembered what he wrote in which book, though his campaign did not try to claim to CNN that he had misspoken. The book doesn’t even mention the name “Hunter Biden.” While “Woke, Inc.” does indeed include criticism of tech companies for trying to thwart the spread of the Hunter Biden story – Ramaswamy’s campaign identified four pages that feature such material – “Nation of Victims” doesn’t say anything at all on the subject of “big tech” involvement in the 2020 election, let alone in the same chapter as the criticism of Trump or “about 20 pages” total. Ramaswamy said “about 20 pages” of the book were devoted to that subject, which he said he had also brought up in his 2021 book “Woke, Inc.” Ramaswamy claimed that, if Todd had actually read “Nation of Victims,” he would have seen that, in the very same chapter as the criticism of Trump’s claims about the 2020 election, Ramaswamy had written about how “big tech” had interfered in that election by suppressing a late-campaign story related to Hunter Biden’s laptop. Then, on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Ramaswamy delivered another falsehood while trying to deflect moderator Chuck Todd’s questioning about the book’s pointed rejection of Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was “stolen.” Ramaswamy’s book, “Nation of Victims,” contains sharp criticism of Trump as well as some praise. Over a span of four days, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy made two different false claims about what he wrote in his own 2022 book.Īt the first Republican presidential debate last Wednesday, Ramaswamy claimed rival candidate Chris Christie was not telling the truth when Christie said Ramaswamy had said “much different things” about former President Donald Trump in the book than the glowing assessment he was offering at the debate.
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