Ramaswamy Questions ‘How Many Federal Agents Were on the Planes That Hit the Twin Towers’
Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is once again floating conspiracy theories around the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Atlantic’s John Hendrickson interviewed the entrepreneur and asked him about the truth…
Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is once again floating conspiracy theories around the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Atlantic’s John Hendrickson interviewed the entrepreneur and asked him about the truth surrounding Jan. 6.
“I don’t know, but we can handle it,” Ramaswamy responded. “Whatever it is, we can handle it. Government agents. How many government agents were in the field? Right?”
He then pivoted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. It probably is zero for all I know, right?” Ramaswamy insisted.
He added, “I have no reason to think it was anything other than zero. But if we’re doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 9/11, we have a 9/11 commission, absolutely that should be an answer the public knows the answer to. Well, if we’re doing a January 6 commission, absolutely, those should be questions that we should get to the bottom of.”
When Hendrickson asked him about the comparison of 9/11 to Jan. 6, Ramaswamy said, “Oh yeah, I don’t think they belong in the same conversation… I think it’s a ridiculous comparison. But I brought it up only because it was invoked as a basis for the January 6 commission.”
Hendrickson wrote, “But is he actually confused about who was behind the 9/11 attacks? It was hard to get a straight answer from him. ‘I mean, I would take the truth about 9/11,’ he said. ‘I am not questioning what we—this is not something I’m staking anything out on. But I want the truth about 9/11.’ Some truths, it seems, can be proudly affirmed; others are more elusive.”