Ramaswamy’s team clarifies controversial 9/11 remarks.
Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s team clarifies controversial comments
Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s team is attempting to clear the air after the backlash he received for comments that appeared to be about 9/11.
In an interview with the Atlantic, Ramaswamy seemed to float a 9/11 conspiracy theory, suggesting that police or federal agents could have been on the planes that hit the Twin Towers during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. It probably is zero for all I know, right? I have no reason to think it was anything other than zero,” Ramaswamy said, according to the outlet.
“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,” he continued. “Well, if we’re doing a January 6 commission, absolutely, those should be questions that we should get to the bottom of. ‘Here are the people who were armed. Here are the people who are unarmed.’ What percentage of the people who were armed were federal law-enforcement officers? I think it was probably high, actually. Right?”
The comment drew backlash on social media, with many deriding the theory that federal agents could have been on the planes that hit the Twin Towers (presumably dying in the process) as absurd.
However, Tricia McLaughlin, the Ramaswamy campaign’s communications director, told Newsweek that he was actually referring to Jan. 6.
“Vivek was referring to Jan. 6, not 9/11, as we have clarified with the Atlantic,” she said. “It was a very free-flowing conversation, so we are not blaming the reporter, but the real question Vivek has is about undercover federal agents on Jan. 6, 2021, not 9/11.”
Ramaswamy has questioned the official narrative surrounding Jan. 6 and 9/11 on previous occasions, and he has put most of his focus on the former.
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