{"id":2008298,"date":"2023-08-22T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-would-have-been-a-fool-to-turn-down-soros-money-for-law-school-while-earning-over-2m-campaign\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:41:03","slug":"ramaswamy-would-have-been-a-fool-to-turn-down-soros-money-for-law-school-while-earning-over-2m-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-would-have-been-a-fool-to-turn-down-soros-money-for-law-school-while-earning-over-2m-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaswamy wise to accept Soros funds for law school despite $2M earnings: Campaign."},"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\">26<\/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-would-have-been-a-fool-to-turn-down-soros-money-for-law-school-while-earning-over-2m-campaign%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=2008298&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 Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Defends Decision to Accept\u2064 Soros\u200d Scholarship<\/h2>\n<p>GOP presidential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-continuous-media-covid-fear-mongering-may-backfire-and-diminish-democrat-voter-turnout\/\" title=\"The Continuous Media COVID Fear Mongering May BACKFIRE and Diminish Democrat Voter Turnout\">candidate<\/a>\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vivek-ramaswamy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> is making headlines for his bold choice to accept a $90,000 \u200cSoros scholarship for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-new-legal-team-for-impeachment-defense-after-previous-team-collapsed\/\" title=\"Trump Announces New Legal Team For Impeachment Defense After Previous Team Collapsed\">law school<\/a>, despite earning over $2 million in income\u200c the same year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Vivek\u2063 would have been a fool to turn down that scholarship \u2013 Anyone who would have\u2064 shouldn\u2019t get \u2062anywhere\u2063 near the White House doing trade deals,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tricia McLaughlin, Campaign Spokeswoman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2011, Ramaswamy received the $90,000 \u2064scholarship from the\u200c Paul &#038; Daisy Soros Fellowship for \u200dNew Americans, founded by George Soros&#8217; brother.\u200c This decision \u2063has sparked controversy, as tax \u200crecords\u200c released \u200bby Ramaswamy himself revealed a total \u2063income of $2,252,209 that\u200d year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ramaswamy-already-millionaire-he-accepted-soros-award-he-said-he-needed-pay-law-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy has\u200b defended his choice, stating\u2064 that he accepted the scholarship because\u200b he &#8220;didn&#8217;t\u2063 have\u2064 the money&#8221; \u200cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-reid-struggles-to-defend-crt-repeatedly-cuts-off-chris-rufo-its-my-show-its-how-i-want-to-do-it\/\" title=\"Joy Reid Struggles To Defend CRT, Repeatedly Cuts Off Chris Rufo: \u2018It\u2019s My Show, It\u2019s How I Want To Do It\u2019\">attend law school<\/a> at the time. Prior to \u200chis enrollment at Yale Law \u200bSchool, he\u2064 worked as an\u2063 investment analyst at the hedge fund \u200dQVT \u2064Financial.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy, Ramaswamy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-would-have-been-a-fool-to-turn-down-soros-money-for-law-school-while-earning-over-2m-campaign\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy wise to accept Soros funds for law school despite M earnings: Campaign.\">campaign remains steadfast<\/a>\u2063 in their support of \u200bhis decision. Campaign spokeswoman \u2063Tricia McLaughlin emphasized that the scholarship was \u2064a generic one, awarded\u2062 to\u2064 hundreds of students, and funded by a deceased relative of George Soros.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, there\u2019s only one candidate\u2063 that will\u2063 be on stage \u2063Wednesday \u200cnight \u2064whom George Soros has said he wants \u2062to win this primary \u2013 and it\u2019s not Vivek.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u200dTricia McLaughlin, Campaign Spokeswoman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McLaughlin further attempted \u2062to\u200d shift the focus\u200d onto\u2063 Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, highlighting Soros&#8217; previous statement that he wanted DeSantis to win the GOP primary.\u2062 She also pointed out that\u200b DeSantis is the only governor to have removed\u200b a Soros prosecutor from office, not once\u2064 but twice.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, currently ranked third in\u2064 the \u2063Real\u2062 Clear \u2062Politics polling average of the \u200bprimary race, is set to\u200d participate \u2064in the first debate of the primary alongside seven other Republican candidates. The 2024 race for the\u2062 White House \u2062marks Ramaswamy&#8217;s foray into politics after achieving success in the biotech industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy defends accepting a $90,000 Soros scholarship for law school, despite earning $2 million that year. In 2011, Ramaswamy received the scholarship from the Paul &amp; Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, established by George Soros&#8217; brother, sparking controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2008299,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2008298","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}