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In the race to become the Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy has become a contender.
However, with the surge in his popularity has come increased scrutiny over his ties to people and organizations that are perceived by many as being at odds with conservative values.
We’ll take a closer look at some of these allegations and how Ramaswamy has responded to them.
Vivek Ramaswamy has come under fire for alleged ties to George Soros, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and a controversial partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over a centralized COVID-19 patient surveillance database.
Critics have also raised questions about transparency due to changes made on his Wikipedia page.
In 2010, when he was 24 years old, Ramaswamy received funding from Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans – named after George Soros’s brother – which enabled him to pursue a Juris Doctor in Law at Yale University.
He clarified that he never met either Paul or George Soros and that he had no connection with George apart from receiving financial assistance for educational purposes: “If I had turned down that scholarship back then, that would have been so foolish that anybody that foolish probably should have no place anywhere near the White House doing trade deals on behalf of this country.”
He also noted that back in 2010 when he accepted this fellowship from Paul Soros – long before “George Soros had completely fallen off the deep end and gone into progressive causes” – there was nothing controversial about it.
Regarding an allegation concerning a tweet where it may appear as if he was praising George Soros for labeling Xi as ‘the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world’, he said it was taken out of context and does not reflect his views fully.
Well said, George Soros:
“I consider Mr. Xi the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world.”https://t.co/kg9GCZqK6v
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 15, 2021
Ramswami expressed opposition towards WEF earlier this year when they included him in their 2021 ‘Young Global Leaders’ list despite him rejecting their award and repeatedly asking for removal of his name from it.
He took action against their refusal by filing a lawsuit against them: “I’m an opponent of [WEF]…well when they refused to do it, you know what I did? I sued them because I believe in taking action”.
The organization eventually removed him from their list two years later after he filed said lawsuit against them.
There’s also been talk about a partnership between Datavant -Ramawy’s company- and NIH where they’d create some sort of database collecting patients’ information without revealing identities.
Vivek himself hasn’t released any statement addressing this issue yet publicly so far.
