{"id":2007616,"date":"2023-08-21T23:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-camp-tries-to-clear-the-air-after-comments-on-9-11-draw-backlash\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T23:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:28:22","slug":"ramaswamy-camp-tries-to-clear-the-air-after-comments-on-9-11-draw-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-camp-tries-to-clear-the-air-after-comments-on-9-11-draw-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaswamy&#8217;s team clarifies controversial 9\/11 remarks."},"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\">12<\/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%2Framaswamy-camp-tries-to-clear-the-air-after-comments-on-9-11-draw-backlash%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=2007616&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>Republican Presidential \u2063candidate Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">team<\/a> clarifies controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">comments<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s team is attempting to \u2064clear the air after the backlash he received\u200d for\u200c comments\u200d that appeared to be about\u200b 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Atlantic,\u2062 Ramaswamy seemed to float a 9\/11 conspiracy theory, suggesting that police or \u200bfederal agents could have been on the planes that hit the Twin Towers during the Sept. \u206211,\u200d 2001,\u2063 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is legitimate to say how many \u2062police, how many federal agents, were \u200con \u2062the planes that hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. \u200bIt probably is zero for all I know, right? I have no reason to think \u2064it was anything other than zero,&#8221; Ramaswamy said, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if we&#8217;re doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 9\/11, we have\u2062 a 9\/11\u2063 commission,\u2062 absolutely that should \u2062be an answer \u2063the\u2062 public knows\u200b the answer to,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Well, if we&#8217;re doing a January 6 commission, absolutely, those should be questions that we should get to\u200b the \u2063bottom of. &#8216;Here \u200bare the \u200dpeople who \u2064were armed. \u200cHere are the people who are unarmed.&#8217; What percentage of the people \u2062who \u200dwere\u2062 armed were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-camp-tries-to-clear-the-air-after-comments-on-9-11-draw-backlash\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy's team clarifies controversial 9\/11 remarks.\">federal law-enforcement officers<\/a>? I think it was probably high, actually. Right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-hits-back-after-trump-suggests-floridas-6-week-abortion-ban-is-too-harsh\/\" title=\"DeSantis defends Florida's 6-week abortion ban against Trump's criticism.\">comment drew backlash<\/a> on social media, with many deriding the theory that \u200dfederal \u200bagents could \u200dhave been on the planes that hit \u2062the Twin Towers (presumably dying in the process) as absurd.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tricia McLaughlin, the Ramaswamy campaign&#8217;s\u200b communications director, told \u2062Newsweek that he \u2062was actually referring to Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vivek was referring to Jan. 6, not 9\/11, \u2064as we have clarified with \u2063the Atlantic,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was a\u200b very free-flowing conversation, \u200dso we are not blaming the reporter, but the real question Vivek has\u2062 is \u2064about undercover federal\u2062 agents on Jan. \u20626, 2021, not 9\/11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy has questioned the official narrative surrounding Jan. 6 and 9\/11 on previous \u2062occasions,\u200c and he has put most of his \u2062focus on the former.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s team is addressing the controversy surrounding his remarks on 9\/11. During an interview with the Atlantic, Ramaswamy hinted at a conspiracy theory involving the presence of police or federal agents on the Twin Towers-hitting planes. Efforts are being made to clarify his statements and alleviate the backlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2007617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2007616","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=2007616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}