Mehdi: “Did you not make 750,000 dollars?” Vivek Ramaswamy: “Not at the time I had applied for the [Soros] scholarship.” Mehdi: “Yes you did Vivek. This is awkward for you because you did. I’ve got the tax returns in front of my face.”

  • @Hazdaz
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    Wow, actually asking some hard questions to Republican candidates? Let me guess, they are going to fire that reporter within a few weeks.

    Imagine if our (usually) awful news media asked these kinds of questions to Trump nearly 8 years ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      Nah. MSNBC won’t fire him. You won’t see Five-Head ever do another interview on the station ever again though.

    • @BertramDitore
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      I totally understand the sentiment and would normally agree, but Mehdi Hasan is well known for this. He doesn’t take bullshit answers, he pushes relentlessly and always has the receipts on hand. Vivek either knew going in and thought he could stand his ground (few can), or didn’t know and should fire someone himself.

      • @Hazdaz
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        That’s how ALL reporters should be. Instead, the vast majority of them give out one free pass after another to Republican candidates and yet hold Democrats to impossibly high standards.

  • synae[he/him]
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    241 year ago

    A Republican applying for Sorosbucks? Doesn’t he know those belong to hard-working paid protestors?

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    I love this. I love how he doesn’t accept the Gish Gallops. Completely railroads Vivek and his verbal diarrhea.

    • subignition
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      The guts it must take to fight against this bullshit in real time… mad respect.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Omg Vivek is so smug.

    He’s really learned form Trump about having it both ways on every issue.

  • PatFusty
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    Not gonna lie, i hate vivek but this argument is a little petty. Put yourself in his shoes, 50k is 50k at 24 years old

    • @Nahlej
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      50k scholarship he didn’t actually need that then couldn’t go to someone who actually needed it.

      Why does it matter if he’s 24 when he already had hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank? He could have easily paid his own way but lied and said he needed the scholarship and said he couldn’t afford school without it. His own tax returns have shown that was a lie…