GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is all-in for disproved conspiracy theories and racists in the final days of campaigning for the Iowa caucus.
“At a campaign event this week, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy touted an endorsement by a disgraced former congressman who lost his election after defending white nationalism. He refused to directly condemn white supremacy. And he said he didn’t recognize the name of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine people at a historically Black church in South Carolina.
“Was there a point in our prior national history where there have been vicious forms of anti-Black or anti-Brown discrimination in this country, after the Civil War and otherwise? Yes. But you’re looking in the rearview mirror,” said Ramaswamy, while making false incendiary claims that white supremacy was a fabricated threat as he stood in front of a banner that said “TRUTH.”” [READ MORE]
