Speaker 1: We have learned by observing Vivek Ramaswamy, the 2024 Republican presidential
candidate, that he has a penchant for saying one thing.
And then later when he's asked about it, saying, I never said that.
And then when it's quoted, he says the quote is out of context.
And then when context is given, he says the context is wrong and it's being presented
by left wing media or whatever the case may be.
The epitome of this took place last night.
This is really something.
I think you're going to enjoy this.
Vivek Ramaswamy appeared on Fox News with propagandist Sean HANNITY.
Now Sean HANNITY makes Vivek look quite bad.
But the remarkable thing about this is that HANNITY is doing this not in bad faith, but
he's doing this cynically.
HANNITY wants to help Trump.
HANNITY Is buddy buddy with Trump.
So everything I'm about to show you here is Sean HANNITY trying to help Donald Trump.
That all being said, HANNITY pretty astutely points out the erratic and contradictory nature
of just about everything the fake Ramaswamy says.
First and foremost here is Vivek Ramaswamy saying, once we get our semiconductors under
control, then we bail on Taiwan.
And HANNITY goes, Did you just say that?
And Vivek goes, No, I didn't say it.
And HANNITY goes, You did.
You just said it.
Check this out.
Speaker 5: So I'm the only presidential candidate in either party who has had the courage to
say that I'm not going to embrace the one-China policy, which is the posture of both political
parties today, that I'm not going to just adopt strategic ambiguity.
We can't afford that.
We need to be clear that we will defend Taiwan.
That's different from strategic ambiguity now.
We have to defend Taiwan until we achieve semiconductor independence.
At which point we resume our current posture of strategic ambiguity, which is exactly what
the U.S. adopts today.
So the U.S. position is a one China policy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Let me ask you this.
At what point, for example, if Russia wanted to put nuclear weapons 90 miles south of our
border in Cuba, we did have a Cuban missile crisis.
What would your posture be there?
In other words, if you're saying as long as Taiwan set against semiconductor chips, we'll
help them, but after that, they're on their own.
Speaker 5: No, you're actually Sean.
And that's again, how my position has been caricatured.
I will remind you and everybody else.
Right now, the United States.
Speaker 4: I'm listening.
Speaker 5: No, it's not what I'm saying, because.
Well, I'll be I'll give it to you very simply.
Right now, the United States policy towards Taiwan is a one China policy.
Donald Trump was derided.
He was made fun of for daring to pick up a phone call from the Taiwanese president.
The United States of America right now does not even recognize Taiwan as a nation.
I view it differently.
I am clear that we will defend Taiwan and the only politician in either party that has.
Speaker 1: Until we get our semiconductors under control.
Speaker 4: In 2028.
Speaker 5: And then I would resume well, I would resume the current position of the United
States after we've achieved semiconductor independence.
Speaker 1: Okay.
So it's basically what HANNITY is saying.
You know, this is the thing we learned through my interview and others with Vivek.
You can give him a quote out of a book he wrote and he will somehow slip around it and
say, well, but, you know, the media and partizanship and misquoting and lack of context and whatever.
HANNITY confronted the fake with another one, saying you said aid to Israel should end in
2028 and Revoke says that's false.
And HANNITY goes, here's a quote.
I've got the quote When you are putting HANNITY in this position, you know you're not making
much sense.
Speaker 4: What were some of the issues, though?
You know, you said aid to Israel, our number one ally, only democracy in the region, should
end in 2028 and that they should be integrated with your neighbors.
Was exact quote, no.
Speaker 5: MODERATOR That's actually yeah, I can tell you the exact quote.
What I said is it would be a mark of success if we ever got to a point in our relationship
with Israel.
If Israel never needed the United States as aid and showing, you know, how politics is
played, A lot of the other professional politicians who have been threatened by my rise have used
that statement to say that I would cut off aid to Israel.
Speaker 1: All right.
Now, whatever you think about aid to Israel, that's not what this is about.
This is about the fact that vague ramaswamy with a straight face and very articulately
write.
You got to give the guy credit for it.
He will just straight up say, no, no, no, never said it.
You've got the quotes.
He doesn't care.
He'll go on to something tangential.
HANNITY goes back and says, Well, you said Israel shouldn't have preferential treatment.
That's a quote.
When he goes, Well, those are direct quotes from the fake news media, but so are they.
Direct quotes are not.
Speaker 5: Were they travel to Israel, have business partners in Israel?
The reality is this by the end of my first term, our relationship with Israel will be
stronger than it ever has been because I will treat it as a true friendship, not just a
transactional relation.
Speaker 4: Why did you say, I want to go to treatment?
Why did you say that Israel should not have an actual treatment from us?
That's a direct quote.
Speaker 5: Shot, I understand.
No, those are direct quotes from headlines summarized by opposition research fed to the
fake news media.
Speaker 1: So, so are are they direct quotes or not?
It's a very specific kind of direct quote.
Speaker 5: The reality is here's what I'm saying.
Abraham Accords 2.0 is my top priority.
Abraham Accords.
So 2.0 is my top priority, which is to get Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar into that pact with
Israel and foremost to have a partnership with Israel that does something really important
for the U.S., which is to make sure that Iran never, ever, ever has nuclear capabilities.
That's important to the United States.
Speaker 1: Notice that he's moved on to something different here.
And this is he's he really is very slick.
You got to give the guy credit.
Speaker 5: It's and the other thing I've said, Sean, is that Israel is our friend.
Good friends learn from each other.
I would love Israel's border policies in this country.
I would love Israel's tough on crime policies and strong national identity in this country.
I would love an Iron Dome like Israel has to defend itself against Hamas, which is a
good thing for Israel.
I want something like that here in the United States.
So I don't read from the traditional GOP talk.
Speaker 1: All right.
So he just goes on to filibuster more.
And then just one more clip here in this one, Ramaswamy says, you know, our actions might
be actually pushing Russia closer to China.
And I have to tell you.
HANNITY rightly points out no, but that that's already something that is happening.
It's not about our Ukraine policy.
Speaker 5: Sean, there's also a deeper point, which is that I worry we are now driving Russia
closer into China's arms.
And the Russia China alliance is the single greatest threat that we face.
And that's what I really worry about.
And I think that there's an H. Speaker 4: Russia to China and Iran and exactly
survival is for them.
So the question is, I want a weakness in them and I want to weaken weaken it, too.
And I'd love to see that happen.
Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Vivek has said that he would, I guess, weaken it by giving parts of Ukraine
to Putin and then going and visiting Putin.
So this is less about the issues.
You could look at some of what Ramaswamy is saying here.
Right.
And remember, it's like pick and choose because the taking every position on every.
The issue lets you just say, Well, I liked what he said on this day, but not so much
on that day.
This is less about what we actually you know.
There are elements of what Ramaswamy says where his most recent statement isn't crazy
and many of them that are crazy.
Okay.
This is about the fact that he is doing an incredible job and praised him to the extent
that it helps him.
He is doing an incredible job of with a straight face, just denying his own quotes.
He's increasingly being presented with his own quotes and he just talks about something
else he's talked about.
Well, you said this on Israel.
He says, I would love to have an Iron Dome.
It's not really the question.
It's not what Hannity's pointing out.
And so HANNITY doing a fine job, although it is a difficult job for sure, of pointing
out that fake just slips out and denies his own quotes.
It's an incredible ability to be able to do it with a straight face.
Is it going to work in some sense?
I guess.
I mean, he's up a little bit since the debate.
We'll see how he does in the second debate.
We'll see what sort of media attention he gets.
He's definitely getting a lot more media attention since that debate performance.
Will Republican voters realize he just takes every side of every issue, sort of like Trump
did in 2016?
I don't know.
I don't know that that's something the Republican electorate really pays attention to.
Are they even going to be interested in the Ramos Romney presidency beyond 7 to 10%?
That remains to be seen.
But attaboy to Sean HANNITY to the extent that he at least attempted to keep this all
under control.
We'll have these clips on our Instagram, on our tik-tok, and, of course, on our YouTube
channel.
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