There’s no question that 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been reflecting the voice of disgruntled Americans who no longer trust that the government is operating in their best interest.
However, there have been several controversies surrounding his campaign — and Glenn Beck wants answers.
Luckily, Vivek doesn’t shy away from controversy and sat down with Glenn to address the rumors.
“A Wikipedia editor alleges that you paid to have your Wikipedia page edited to remove you receiving the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and your role in Ohio’s COVID-19 response team,” Glenn starts. “Is that true, and if it is, why?”
Vivek explains that before he ran for president, “there were a lot of falsehoods” on his Wikipedia page.
These falsehoods included everything from details about his birth to his wife’s name.
“So, before I ran, yes, I wanted to make sure that the public was aware of exactly what the right facts were,” he explains.
As for the COVID-19 response team in Ohio, Vivek claims that "there wasn’t actually ever a formally titled body.”
“There was a lieutenant governor in Ohio, who remains a friend of mine to this day, who asked me if he could call me from time to time to get basic advice through the process,” he says. “I helped him with the reopening plan. That was a short version of the help that I provided him. So I’m actually proud of that.”
Vivek also explains that he was “pro-reopening” and that he was always “dead set against” lockdowns and mandates.
As for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, he explains that he received that scholarship at the age of 24 but that, much to his chagrin, it was listed at the top of his accomplishments on Wikipedia until recently.
“At the age of 37, having achieved a lot of things,” Vivek explains that he didn’t want the first thing on his Wikipedia page to be a “random scholarship” he got at the age of 24. “That’s manipulation,” he says.
“One of the things I’ve learned in this process, Glenn, is there's a lot of left-wing media manipulation, but there’s media manipulation 360 degrees, driven by, not just fake-news media, but a lot of fake, establishment candidates too, who are threatened by my rise.”
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An Asian American woman who's running for New York City Council said she was shoved on a Manhattan subway stairwell by another woman last week, the New York Post reported.
The attack against Susan Lee follows numerous others in the city lately that have been fueled by hate and racism, although she told the paper she isn't sure what motivated her assailant.
Lee, 42, told the Post she was in the stairwell at the Oculus subway station last Wednesday when she spotted the woman staring at her: "You know she has this mischievous look on her face, and I was just thinking like, 'Oh gosh, this isn't good.'"
Sure enough, Lee noted to the paper that the woman pushed her — but that she was able to grab the handrail to brace herself.
The Post said Lee fell a few steps down and suffered a sprained ankle — and she noted to the paper that it could've been much worse.
"If I wasn't prepared for her to push me, I would have fallen all the way down the stairs," Lee added to the paper. "I was holding on to the rail really tightly, and I had my other hand in front of my face."
After the attack, she headed straight for her home, the Post said: "I wanted to be someplace safe."
Lee added to the paper that she isn't sure if the woman, who appeared to be homeless, targeted her because she's Asian or just because she was alone.
Lee reported the incident to police a few days later after friends urged her to do so, telling her it would be wise to get it on the record, the Post said.
She told the paper that police had her look at several hundred photos in case the suspect was among them, but the effort turned up nothing. Lee has described the assailant as black, the Post said.
Since the attack, Lee — who had been a frequent user of public transportation — has taken the subway only twice, the paper said.
"Now I'm always walking," she noted to the Post
There have been numerous attacks of late against Asians in New York City:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that if former President Donald Trump becomes the Republican Party's presidential nominee again in 2024, he would "absolutely" throw his support behind the former president.
But, he says, a lot could happen between now then.
During an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, the anchor asked McConnell if he believed Trump would be the GOP nominee during the next president election as some have predicted.
"Well, there's a lot to happen between now and '24," the GOP leader responded, revealing, "I've got at least four members that I think are planning on running for president, plus some governors and others."
"There's no incumbent," he continued, telling Baier it "should be a wide open race and fun for you all to cover."
Baier then asked directly, "If [Trump] was the party's nominee, would you support him?"
"The nominee of the party? Absolutely," McConnell replied.
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The Hill called McConnell's declaration a "remarkable about-face" by the Kentucky Republican, who has delivered scathing public rebukes of Trump in recent weeks over the former president's actions surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.
Although McConnell voted to acquit Trump on constitutional grounds during the Senate impeachment trial over the House's charge that the former president incited the insurrection, the minority leader said in a subsequent speech from the Senate floor and in The Wall Street Journal that Trump was responsible for the attack.
Trump reacted with a blistering public statement of his own, calling McConnell an "unsmiling political hack," and warned Republicans against listening to the longtime GOP leader.
When asked by Baier whether the Republican Party was currently in a civil war, McConnell argued that it was actually the Democrats who are at battle within their own ranks.
"I think if you're looking for a real civil war, look at the Democrats in the House," McConnell said. "The progressives make it extremely difficult for Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi (D-Calif.) to operate given the narrow margin she has overall in the House."
The GOP leader repeatedly refused to engage on questions regarding former President Trump, at one point telling Baier, "What happened in the past is not something relevant now. We're moving forward."
A South Carolina woman has been accused of attempting to boost her profile as a mayoral candidate by faking her own kidnapping and posting video of it online in a bid for sympathy votes.
Sabrina Belcher, 29, is competing in a crowded field of six candidates to become the next mayor of Sumter. But police say her political strategizing got out of hand when she allegedly plotted with associate James Eaddy, 34, to orchestrate a Facebook Live video showing her being robbed, beaten, and abducted "in order to garner publicity, sympathy and votes in the November election."
During the video, Belcher mentioned the name of another candidate, which police say was an attempt to "discredit" her rival. Officers determined she "also had ongoing plans to smear other mayoral candidates prior to the election."
Belcher showed up at the Sumter police station late Tuesday night claiming she had been "assaulted and kidnapped by an unknown man during an attempted robbery," according to the department. The candidate was wounded and the windows of her vehicle were knocked out during the alleged attack.
"During the investigation," police said, "Belcher provided a fake name of her attacker. However, officers later determined she was in contact with Eaddy whom she had worked with days prior to concoct and stage the reported incident."
"This was simply an effort to create disorder and discontent in our community for personal gain," Chief Russell Roark said. "As a result, a valuable number of resources, including personnel, manhours of the police department as well as local medical professionals, were wasted based on false information."
Belcher eventually confessed to planning the ordeal, and she was arrested and booked into the Sumter County Detention Center with a $10,000 bond on charges of filing a false police report of a felony and conspiracy. Eaddy was charged with conspiracy.
The Miami Herald reported:
According to Belcher's campaign page on Facebook, she is the first 'Black female candidate ever to run.' The page describes her as 'a decorated community activist and local volunteer" as well as a volunteer firefighter in Sumter County. Her platform includes a bid for '24/7 police presence during school bus hours to help protect our children."
If elected, Belcher would be the first black mayor elected in Sumter. The Daily Caller noted that she is still in the race.
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