{"id":1996711,"date":"2023-08-10T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-responds-to-backlash-over-his-answer-on-if-9-11-was-an-inside-job\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T14:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:19:52","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-responds-to-backlash-over-his-answer-on-if-9-11-was-an-inside-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-responds-to-backlash-over-his-answer-on-if-9-11-was-an-inside-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy addresses criticism on 9\/11 &#8216;Inside Job&#8217; stance."},"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\">18<\/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-responds-to-backlash-over-his-answer-on-if-9-11-was-an-inside-job%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=1996711&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--><h2>GOP\u2063 Presidential Hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy Sparks Controversy with 9\/11 Comments<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy faced intense \u2062criticism for questioning\u2062 the \u2063official narrative surrounding the\u200c 9\/11 attacks. In an interview with BlazeTV, Ramaswamy expressed\u2063 skepticism towards the government&#8217;s account of \u2063the events, stating that he believes we should be cautious of what we are told. His \u2064comments ignited a firestorm of backlash from fellow\u2062 Republicans and media outlets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexstein99?\">@alexstein99<\/a>:\u200d \u201cWas 9\/11 \u200can inside job or exactly how the government tells us?\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy?\">@VivekGRamaswamy<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t believe the government has told \u2063us the truth. We\u2062 have to be skeptical. Do I believe everything the government told us about it? \u2063Absolutely not.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nLhUtuvCZ5\">pic.twitter.com\/nLhUtuvCZ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2064 BlazeTV (@BlazeTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlazeTV\/status\/1686788570365784085?\">August 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fellow \u200cRepublican \u2064candidate Mike Pence and others expressed their \u200coffense \u2064at Ramaswamy&#8217;s remarks. The Wall \u2063Street Journal&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baltimore-schools-are-tracking-kids-online-activity\/\" title=\"Baltimore Schools Are Tracking Kids\u2019 Online Activity\">editorial board published<\/a> an opinion piece criticizing \u200dRamaswamy, suggesting\u200c that he is too inexperienced \u2062and accusing him \u2062of relying on unreliable sources.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy responded \u200bto\u2063 the criticism with \u2063a letter published in the Journal and a statement on social media. In his letter, he clarified that he was not endorsing conspiracy theories \u2062but rather questioning the government&#8217;s handling of\u2062 the\u2063 9\/11 investigation.\u2063 He highlighted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/declassified-documents-prove-fbi-knowingly-and-willfully-lied-to-fisa-court-to-spy-on-trump-campaign-video\/\" title=\"Declassified Documents Prove FBI Knowingly and Willfully Lied to FISA Court to Spy on Trump Campaign (Video)\">recently declassified documents<\/a> that suggest possible Saudi involvement in the attacks and emphasized the importance of transparency and public trust.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy surrounding Ramaswamy&#8217;s comments has sparked a debate \u200babout government accountability and the role of the media in shaping public \u2063perception.\u200b While there is no \u2063credible evidence to support the claim that 9\/11 was an inside job, Ramaswamy&#8217;s \u2064remarks underscore the \u200bneed for transparency \u2062and honesty from\u200d our leaders.<\/p>\n<h3>Do you \u2062agree with Ramaswamy\u2062 on 9\/11?<\/h3>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Do you agree with Ramaswamy on 9\/11?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\tCompleting this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out\u200c at anytime. You also agree to our\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy \u200bPolicy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n<p>\t\t\tYes: 100% (1 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>\t\t\tNo: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t<script>\n\t\t\/\/ JavaScript code for poll functionality\n\t<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cLast week, a comedian\u200d podcaster asked me if 9\/11 was an \u2018inside job or exactly as the government tells us?\u2019 I answered\u200b truthfully:\u2064 I do not believe everything the government has told us about that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t referring \u2063to the \u2062baseless theories about controlled\u2064 demolitions at buildings around the World Trade Center, but\u200b the very real possibility supported by\u200b recently declassified documents that al-Qaida\u2019s attack was\u200c undertaken with support from Saudi intelligence\u2064 officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently, that breached \u2064a third rail of American politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrat Senator Chris Murphy from\u200d Connecticut tweeted: \u2018If you want to be the\u2062 GOP presidential nominee, you need to believe the government blew up the Twin Towers, and Osama bin Laden is an innocent man who\u2019s living under an alias \u2064in Miami.\u2019 Former Vice President Pence said\u2062 he was \u200c\u2018deeply offended\u2019 that I don\u2019t trust \u200bthat the government told us the full truth in the 9\/11 Commission Report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Wall Street Journal Editorial Board pages mocked \u200dme for wading into \u2018fever swamps\u2019 and were appalled\u2064 that a presidential candidate\u200b \u2018really just said that,\u2019 quipping that \u2018back on planet Earth, the 9\/11 Commission was\u2063 one of the\u200d better efforts at government accountability in recent memory\u200b and its findings \u200bhave never been\u2063 discredited by anyone credible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHold\u200d on there. Back on \u2063the real planet \u2062Earth, the FBI declassified documents\u200c in\u2062 2021 which reveal that the 9\/11 Commission flatly lied about potential Saudi government involvement in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it\u2019s in \u200bour national interest to move on from 9\/11 and to preserve a stable\u200b relationship with Saudi Arabia \u2014 but our best chance of\u200b rebuilding public\u200b trust is to acknowledge \u200bthe truth about one of the defining events in our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA key question confronted by the 9\/11 Commission was whether the Saudi government was involved in planning the\u2063 attacks. \u2062The report concluded there\u2062 was neither Saudi \u2064government nor royal family involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time, \u2064questions swirled around a 42-year-old graduate student who welcomed, housed,\u2062 [set up] bank accounts, and gave rent money to the\u2062 first two Qaida hijackers after \u2062they landed in Los Angeles in January 2000 \u2014 concerns which the FBI and 9\/11 Commission flatly dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Saudi student, Omar al-Bayoumi, claimed to have met the two\u2064 terrorists entirely by chance; \u200cThe 9\/11 Commission report verified that\u2063 Bayoumi\u2019s altruism\u200b was in the\u2062 name of hospitality as \u200dhe\u200c claimed.\u2062 And FBI official, Jacqueline Maguire, testified to the 9\/11 Commission in 2004 that Bayoumi\u2019s\u200d first meeting \u2063at\u200c a caf\u00e9 with the hijackers appeared to be \u2018a random encounter.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all against the backdrop of a 1998 FBI investigation revealing that rather than attend \u200cgraduate \u2064school as he\u200c purported, Bayoumi frequented local mosques, doling out money for various causes and frequently and conspicuously \u2063videotaped visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u200d\u2018graduate student\u2019 reportedly put up $400,000 to start a mosque in San Diego and all the while was paid a stipend and other expenses as a ghost\u2063 employee of a Saudi contracting company, the FBI reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotwithstanding these facts,\u2063 both the FBI\u2063 and the 9\/11 Commission \u2062emphatically supported Bayoumi\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow over 20 years later, the FBI \u200bhas changed its story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn documents declassified last year, the bureau affirmed that Bayoumi was in fact an agent of the Saudi intelligence service\u200d who worked with Saudi religious \u200cofficials and reported to the kingdom\u2019s powerful ambassador in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese revelations \u2063are now the focal point in a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-responds-to-backlash-over-his-answer-on-if-9-11-was-an-inside-job\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy addresses criticism on 9\/11 'Inside Job' stance.\">long-running\u2064 federal lawsuit<\/a> \u200cin New York, where 9\/11 survivors \u200dand relatives of the 2,977 people who were killed are seeking to hold the Saudi government responsible for the attacks. Even if the media doesn\u2019t want to litigate the case against the Saudi government, these \u2063survivors and family members are \u2014 and understandably so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are reasons to believe\u200d that successive U.S. administrations hid the Bayoumi revelations to provide public \u2063cover to the \u200cCIA for critical failures in the lead-up to 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two Saudis,\u200d Khalid al-Mihdhar\u200d and Nawaf al-Hazmi, were known to the CIA as al-Qaida operatives. The CIA was watching as they joined an al-Qaida planning meeting in Malaysia in early January 2000. But the agency reportedly lost \u2062track\u200d of the \u200dtwo when they flew on to Bangkok and then to Los Angeles on\u200d Jan. 15, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbarrassingly, \u200bthe CIA did\u200c not alert the \u2062FBI for more than \u2062a year after it learned the terrorists had entered the United States using their\u2063 real names and \u2063Saudi passports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the enduring mystery over how the\u200c CIA lost track of Hazmi and Mihdhar in Malaysia, former FBI investigators have speculated that Bayoumi might have been asked to approach the hijackers as \u200cpart \u2064of a U.S. \u2064or Saudi intelligence operation to recruit\u2064 them. At the time, former\u2062 officials have said, the CIA was trying desperately to develop sources\u200b inside al-Qaida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CIA has consistently\u200b denied that it allowed the hijackers to come into \u2064the United States as\u2064 part of a \u200bfailed recruitment \u2062effort. Former White House counterterrorism coordinator,\u2062 Richard Clarke, cited this as a\u2062 plausible explanation for the CIA\u2019s failure to track \u200bthe\u200c first two hijackers and its abiding\u200c refusal to alert\u200c the FBI to their presence in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government hasn\u2019t done itself any favors since then to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-birx-on-cdc-reform-the-way-you-rebuild-public-trust-is-to-be-transparent\/\" title=\"Dr. Birx On CDC Reform: \u2018The Way You Rebuild Public Trust Is To Be Transparent\u2019\">build public trust<\/a> around 9\/11 or the\u200d U.S. response to it. The Pentagon\u2019s prevarications about celebrity soldier \u2063Pat Tillman\u2019s\u2063 death in Afghanistan \u2014 initially claiming\u2062 he \u2063was\u200b shot by\u2063 enemy \u200cforces, but\u2062 later forced to admit that he was killed by friendly fire \u2014 is one\u200b undisputed case among many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese events are important \u2063foremost because U.S. government officials continue\u2064 to lie about other matters of public importance \u2014 the origin of Covid-19, knowledge about UAPs, \u200cHunter Biden\u2019s laptop, and so \u200con \u2014 with a complicit media that just accepts the prevailing narrative without question. \u2063This fuels rampant public distrust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u200c is no credible evidence that 9\/11 was \u2063an \u2063\u2018inside job,\u2019\u200d but ironically when the government systematically lies about Saudi \u200binvolvement and the media runs \u200binterference,\u200c that lends plausibility to an otherwise nonsensical claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a noble lie. The reason the people don\u2019t trust the government is because the government doesn\u2019t trust\u200b the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd \u2062yes, a Republican candidate for President really just said that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/vivek-ramaswamy-responds-backlash-answer-9-11-inside-job\/\">Vivek \u200bRamaswamy Responds to Backlash \u200cOver His Answer on if 9\/11 Was an &#8216;Inside Job&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on\u2064 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u2064 Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy faced backlash for questioning the official 9\/11 narrative. In an interview, he was asked if he believed it was an &#8220;inside job&#8221; or as the government claims. 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