VIVEK RAMASWAMY: By a show of hands, who here is willing to admit that the Trump-Russia collusion hoax was indeed incorrectly reported by the mainstream media? Is there anybody here able to admit that was incorrect reporting?
REPORTER: I think it would be really inappropriate for us to answer a question like that.
RAMASWAMY: Why not? What's inappropriate is lying to the American people.
REPORTER: We're doing our job asking you questions.
REPORTER TWO: Were the public lied to or did the media report on a set of facts provided to them?
RAMASWAMY: That's a fair question. I actually think that the public was lied to long after the media systematically still understood that this was the product of the Steele dossier, a piece of Russian disinformation provided by the Hillary Clinton campaign that was served up to the federal government as a basis for issuing a FISA warrant to then potentially infiltrate a member of the opposition party.
If this was Bush and Cheney doing this to John Kerry, it would have been the stuff of scandal. Impeachment and worse. And yet, I think it was an intentional lies by the media who said that that account, which we now know to be true, was actually the Russian disinformation.
I would be charitable in my interpretation of that if it was just one instance
Let's do an easier one. By show of hands, does anybody believe the media's reporting about the origin of Covid-19? Ran flatly in face of the facts that you have a Wuhan Institute of Virology that was now the likely origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. You all said it wasn't for a long time. By a show of hands, was the Wuhan lab the likely origin of the Covid-19 pandemic? Everybody, media or not.
So you have reported, the same media that reported the Covid-19 pandemic did not originate in the lab in Wuhan is willing to even say -- or admit today.
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It was known that there was a Wuhan Institute of Virology where they were conducting gain-of-function research, in the very city where there was the origin of a global pandemic. And yet the media's explanation was it could have been any source other than starting in the lab. I just think that is systematically unacceptable.
The Hunter Biden laptop. I the Hunter Biden laptop story, as reported by the New York Post, which was shut down, had the Twitter account locked for anybody who was even sharing the story of the Hunter Biden laptop on the eve of the last election, the media reported that it was Russian disinformation. Does anyone here agree that the Hunter Biden laptop story as reported by the New York Post was indeed accurately reported and was not Russian disinformation? But was in fact a laptop owned by Hunter Biden? You've got to man, your paper reported it!
REPORTER THREE: I believe Hunter Biden is suing Rudy Giuliani over the laptop, so I don't think--
RAMASWAMY: So you actually believe it was the product of Russian disinformation? As was reported by the media that was the basis for suppressing the story.
REPORTER THREE: I didn't cover the Hunter Biden case, I'm not sure why we're talking about that.
RAMASWAMY: Because it was election interference on the eve of the last election. And I think there's the same kind of election interference happening this time around. And I think it is happening, early waves of it with respect to my candidacy, and I think it is likely to be a major problem going into the election year, unless we're able to openly and transparently acknowledge the mistakes of the past.
