{"id":1700353,"date":"2022-10-17T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700353"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:04:40","slug":"rep-tim-ryan-once-promised-investigation-into-whether-government-created-hiv-to-kill-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-tim-ryan-once-promised-investigation-into-whether-government-created-hiv-to-kill-black-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Tim Ryan Once Promised Investigation Into &#8220;Whether Government Created HIV To Kill Black People&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-tim-ryan-once-promised-investigation-into-whether-government-created-hiv-to-kill-black-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700353&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In Democratic congressman Tim Ryan&#8217;s first major campaign, he made a promise that he has been silent on ever since: to investigate whether the U.S. government created the &#8220;HIV-AIDS virus&#8221; with the intention of murdering the nation\u2019s black population.<\/p>\n<p>During his first run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, Ryan was asked in an interview with a local radio station whether, if elected, he would open a congressional investigation into &#8220;the intentional creation of the HIV-AIDS virus and other life-threatening diseases and targeting of black populations by agencies of the U.S. government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Ryan responded, prompting a laugh from the host who expressed surprise at how quickly he answered.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange was captured by filmmakers for <em>Ryan for Congress<\/em>, an obscure British documentary that focused on Ryan&#8217;s low-budget campaign for federal office. The little-circulated documentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ryan-Congress-Jake-Shaw\/dp\/B01M2CSJJK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available for purchase<\/a> on major streaming platforms, depicts Ryan, at the time not even 30 years old, running a campaign out of a beaten-up camper that focused on winning grassroots support. Part of winning that grassroots support meant conducting interviews with just about anyone, according to the film, including the host who asks Ryan about the origins of HIV.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The HIV question was described as &#8220;unusual&#8221; by the documentary\u2019s narrator. But Ryan\u2019s lack of hesitation in agreeing with the radio host\u2019s premises highlights an under-covered problem many Democratic candidates face when running for office: Their voter base often holds a wide array of beliefs that range from impractical to complete fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>For Democrats such as Ryan, who is running for Senate this November, appeasing those voters can often prove to be a liability down the road. When Donald Trump was president, Ryan attacked his trade agenda as &#8220;designed to inflict maximum damage on the U.S. economy, for minimal gain.&#8221; Following Trump\u2019s large margin of victory in Ohio in the 2020 presidential race, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/is-tim-ryan-the-real-deal-his-former-neighbors-dont-think-so\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan says<\/a> he agreed with the former president\u2019s tariffs and attempts to protect the nation\u2019s domestic manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u2019s flip-flopping on issues related to trade or whether the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/tim-ryan-says-americans-need-to-give-up-gas-cars-as-he-drives-around-ohio-in-gas-guzzlers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">should ban<\/a> gas-powered vehicles is hardly unique for office-seekers, even if it ultimately becomes the subject of attack ads. Many Democrats this cycle find themselves regretting taking far-left positions on defunding the police or dismantling the nation\u2019s immigration system.<\/p>\n<p>The radio host\u2019s bizarre question on HIV&#8217;s origin, however, speaks to a much darker strain of conspiracy theories that have infected Democratic politics over the years. The origin of the theory\u2014unanimously discredited by the medical community\u2014remains up for debate, but it was embraced by the Soviet Union and left-wing fringe groups such as the Nation of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Ryan did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to expounding the theory, Ryan\u2019s interviewer mentioned &#8220;Dr.&#8221; Boyd Ed Graves. A former Youngstown and Cleveland resident, Boyd\u2014who was a lawyer but referred to himself as a doctor\u2014wrote extensively about his belief that the HIV virus originated in a U.S. laboratory and was deliberately spread by the federal government through vaccines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Democratic congressman Tim Ryan&#8217;s first major campaign, he made a promise that he has been silent on ever since: to investigate whether the U.S. government created the &#8220;HIV-AIDS virus&#8221; with the intention of murdering the nation\u2019s black population. During his first run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, Ryan was asked in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}