{"id":1917475,"date":"2023-04-21T02:10:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-files-lawsuit-against-world-economic-forum\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T02:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T06:15:21","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-files-lawsuit-against-world-economic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-files-lawsuit-against-world-economic-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy Files Lawsuit Against World Economic Forum"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fvivek-ramaswamy-files-lawsuit-against-world-economic-forum%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=1917475&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0420\/d894e82f-fc67-4b6c-ad24-6745cfe2af51\/audio.mp3?length=2670093&#038;duration=222\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is suing the World Economic Forum (WEF) for affiliating him as one of its \u201cYoung Global Leaders,\u201d despite rejecting the request and repeatedly asking to be removed from its list of members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fundamentally disagree with the WEF agenda,\u201d Ramaswamy said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1648307924287070211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1648310299164921864%7Ctwgr%5E0d710a896e541feb815b8e346ac9f5595aa4c5bc%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.benzinga.com%2Fnews%2F23%2F04%2F31884327%2Fenough-is-enough-gop-presidential-candidate-wants-to-sue-wef-for-naming-him-young-global-leader-with\">post<\/a> on Twitter Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019ve been one of the biggest crusaders in our country against it. They named me a \u2018young global leader\u2019 when I explicitly said no. Now it\u2019s time to hold them accountable for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy argued that the organization of global elites also listed other young and successful business leaders on the forum without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>In a poll initiated by the 37-year-old businessman-turned-politician, he asked his 456,000 followers to vote on whether they think he should sue the WEF, with over 29,000 Twitter users responding to it. The result showed a whopping 90 percent in favor of filing a lawsuit against the organization, which is headquartered in Geneva.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Should I sue the World Economic Forum?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1648307924287070211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/\">statement<\/a> on Wednesday, Ramaswamy formally announced that he\u2019s filing a lawsuit against the WEF, saying it\u2019s time to hold the organization accountable \u201cfor creating the false illusion of affiliation\u201d in order to undermine its adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Founding Fathers fought the American Revolution to declare independence from the Old World monarchy,\u201d Ramaswamy said. \u201cThat old monster now rears its head again in the form of WEF\u2019s agendas including \u2018stakeholder capitalism\u2019 and the \u2018Great Reset.\u2019 That\u2019s why I\u2019ve been one of the most vocal crusaders in America against WEF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/19\/dont-use-my-name-vivek-ramaswamy-tells-world-economic-forum\/\">New York Post<\/a>, citing the lawsuit, Ramaswamy filed it in a court in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Wednesday and is seeking only nominal damages of $2,500.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, per the Post, reads: \u201cThe WEF seemingly exploited this false and manufactured affiliation with Mr. Ramaswamy to undermine his credibility as a critic of the World Economic Forum and its objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an organization that does a lot of wrongs and I\u2019ve opposed it publicly and believe it should be held accountable,\u201d Ramaswamy told the paper. \u201cThe WEF has a radical worldview that rejects the principles America was founded on. I\u2019m not interested in being a \u2018global citizen.\u2019 I\u2019m an American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur who founded and leads biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, appeared on the WEF\u2019s 2021 list of Young Global Leaders (YGL) before his name was pulled from the website, an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/DiGw5\">archived version<\/a>\u00a0shows.<\/p>\n<p>A WEF spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/04\/19\/vivek-ramaswamy-sues-world-economic-forum\/\">told<\/a> the Daily Caller that the organization invited Ramaswamy to become a member of the YGL community, but he declined the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn individual does not <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is suing the World Economic Forum (WEF) for affiliating him as one of its \u201cYoung Global Leaders,\u201d despite rejecting the request and repeatedly asking to be removed from its list of members. \u201cI fundamentally disagree with the WEF agenda,\u201d Ramaswamy said in a post on Twitter Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019ve been one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":1917476,"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":[543],"tags":[4202,5665,8997,4585,18538,18539],"class_list":["post-1917475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-economic","tag-files","tag-forum","tag-lawsuit","tag-ramaswamy","tag-vivek"],"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\/1917475","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\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}