Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican presidential hopeful, sharply rebuked former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday for accusing him of doubting the 9/11 Commission Report. Real Clear Politics put Ramaswamy in third place for the Republican primary on July 12 to Aug. 3 with 6% support, while Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis remain ahead with 53.7% and 15.7% support respectively.
Unexpectedly, Pence threw a jab at Ramaswamy during a Tuesday interview with the Manchester Union-Leader, when he suggested Ramaswamy was in “grade school” on the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Though Ramaswamy is turning 38 on Wednesday, he would have been a mere 16 years old on 9/11.
“Our government continually lies to us about many matters of public interest – from Covid-19’s origin, to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Hunter Biden’s laptop, appropriations of funds to Ukraine, to even the shocking Nashville trans shooter manifesto,” asserted Ramaswamy. “Repetitious dishonesty, matched by a complicit media turning a blind eye to the truth, only propagates the public’s distrust. As of now, there is not an adequate quantity of evidence to prove that 9/11 was, in fact, an ‘inside job’ – although people are lead to think so when our government hides suspicious involvement from Saudi Arabia and the media does not report it.”
“We must understand that stuffing a lie in the clothes of noble intentions can be perilous,” continued Ramaswamy. “Respectfully, the true purpose of the widespread sowing of doubt about the government is because the government does not trust the people.”
.@Mike_Pence says today he was “deeply offended” that I don’t trust that the government told us the full truth in the 9/11 Commission Report. Well, I find it offensive that our government repeatedly lies to us. Here’s the TRUTH: the FBI quietly declassified documents in 2021… https://t.co/cfCAc44mJi
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 9, 2023
Ramaswamy’s full tweet reads:
“[Pence] says today he was “deeply offended” that I don’t trust that the government told us the full truth in the 9/11 Commission Report. Well, I find it offensive that our government repeatedly lies to us. Here’s the TRUTH: the FBI quietly declassified documents in 2021 that definitively reveal the government lied to the public about basic facts of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11, until documents were declassified and they changed their story 20 years later.
Omar al-Bayoumi, a 42-year-old graduate student, welcomed, housed, set up bank accounts, and gave rent money to the first two Qaida hijackers after they landed in Los Angeles in January 2000. Al-Bayoumi claimed to have met the two terrorists entirely by chance: The 9/11 Commission report verified that Bayoumi’s altruism was in the name of hospitality, as he claimed.
The FBI, 20 years later, changed its story. In documents declassified last year, the Bureau affirmed that Bayoumi was in fact an agent of the Saudi intelligence service who worked with Saudi religious officials and reported to the kingdom’s powerful ambassador in Washington.
U.S. government officials continue to lie about other matters of public importance – the origin of Covid-19, knowledge about UAPs, Hunter Biden’s laptop, how our money is actually being spent in Ukraine, the Nashville trans shooter manifesto – with a complicit media that just accepts the prevailing narrative without question. This fuels rampant public distrust. There is no credible evidence that 9/11 was an “inside job,” but ironically, when the government systematically lies about Saudi involvement and the media runs interference, that lends plausibility to an otherwise unlikely claim.
There’s no such thing as a noble lie. With all due respect to the former VP, the reason the people don’t trust the government is because the government doesn’t trust the people.”