Vivek Ramaswamy On The Record

[PAF]

Vivek Ramaswamy On The Record

Vivek Ramaswamy NOT a “natural born Citizen” of the United States to Constitutional Standards – NOT Constitutionally Eligible to Be President and Commander-in-Chief of Our Military

https://thenewamerican.com/opinion/vivek-ramaswamy-not-constitutionally-eligible-to-be-president/

https://www.thepostemail.com/2023/0...o-be-president-and-commander-in-chief-of-our/

- Vivek Ramaswamy Paid Wikipedia Editors to Erase His Soros Fellowship and Covid Work

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Vivek Ramaswamy was born to immigrant parents from India August 9, 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Religion: Hindu


Vivek Ramaswamy - Co-founder of Campus Venture Network (2007-2009); partner at hedgefund QVT Financial (2007-2014). Founder and CEO of Roivant Sciences Pharmaceutical Corporation (2014-2021); co-founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management (2022-present).


Vivek Ramaswamy: “I feel like I recoil when I see someone describe me as a conservative,” he told an interviewer. “Not that there’s anything wrong with being a conservative. It’s just not how I would describe myself.”


Vivek Ramaswamy: “I am taking the Trump America first agenda to the next level to actually get the job done,” he recently told a reporter https://indianexpress.com/article/w...erica-first-agenda-to-the-next-level-8475100/

PharmaVoice profiled Ramaswamy, noting that his calls for the United States to get tough on “Chinese business appear to be newly held, as two of Roivant’s subsidiaries during his time leading the company … notably focused on the innovations of medicine in China and for patients across Asia.

In its profile of Ramaswamy, Business Insider highlighted the fact that he “moonlighted as a rapper” while he was an undergraduate at Harvard.


Vivek Ramaswamy joined QVT Financial, where he slowly made a name for himself with a simple “buy low, sell high strategy.” In one notable example of this approach, he bought shares of the New Jersey-based Pharmasset in 2008 at $5 apiece, and then was a top shareholder by the time Gilead bought the company for $137 a share four years later.

Then, in 2014, he left QVT to found Roivant, backed by hedge fund QVT and an Israeli drug maker, with a goal to “reduce the average time and cost of the drug development process”. Roivant in 2016 disclosed a major investment from billionaire Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global Investors hedge fund.

In a model Ramaswamy dubbed the “Berkshire Hathaway of drug development”, Roivant was designed to spin out smaller, highly focused subsidiary companies.

When one of the company’s first “vants” — Axovant — launched with what was at the time the biggest IPO in U.S. Biotech history (it’s now been surpassed by Moderna), Ramaswamy canceled his honeymoon to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. During his tenure as CEO, a role he stepped down from in 2021, Ramaswamy oversaw the FDA approval of five medications.

To fight the fentanyl crisis, Ramaswamy said he would consider a “military assault” of Mexican drug cartels using airstrikes, drone attacks and special forces operations.

Despite his background in Pharma and recent debates over how the federal government should handle drug pricing, Ramaswamy has yet to release a policy platform on the issue, or other issues directly impacting the drug industry.


https://www.pharmavoice.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-2024-president-anti-woke-biotech-roivant/643559/

https://www.cfr.org/blog/meet-vivek-ramaswamy-republican-presidential-candidate

- In what should be a personal choice and between patient and private physician, Vivek posts the following concerning vaccines that have not been thoroughly and extensively tested. In response to the heading:

"Elites Now Have Extraordinary & Unchecked Powers", with Bill Gates in the background,

Vivek responds: "To state the obvious: we should aim to safely vaccinate everyone...

On the first day of trading the stock almost doubled, giving Axovant a market capitalization of nearly $3 billion. Considering that Ramaswamy had persuaded Glaxo to part with the unproven remedy for a mere $5 million up front, the newlyweds were ecstatic, as was a veritable wedding party of hedge fund pals who had followed Ramaswamy into the stock.

But this creeping fear ignores the full scope of what Ramaswamy is up to: rescuing the pharmaceutical industry’s forgotten drugs. Whether or not the Axovant drug works, the IPO, according to Ramaswamy, is just “a first step on a broader mission” to liberate abandoned or deprioritized drugs that routinely languish in the pipelines of pharma companies, never reaching patients or enriching investors.

Leaning on his Wall Street background and armed with a $400 million war chest, Ramaswamy is building a portfolio not of stocks but of has-been drugs that he grabs for “pennies on the dollar,” free-riding on the billions in research that pharma sometimes sinks into failed trials. Using a pharmaceutical holding company he formed last year, Roivant Sciences, Ramaswamy hopes to spin out dozens of companies, much as he did with Axovant. “This will be the highest return on investment endeavor ever taken up in the pharmaceutical industry,” he boasts. “It will be a pipeline every bit as deep and diverse as the most promising pharma company in the world but with a capital efficiency that is unprecedented.”

A whirlwind of such deals has made Ramaswamy, a member of the FORBES 30 Under 30 list, biopharma’s youngest chief executive. He may soon be its youngest billionaire. FORBES estimates that Roivant is worth $3.5 billion, making its Millennial founder’s 20% or so stake worth some $700 million. Ramaswamy, who just turned 30, has bigger aspirations. Roivant, he says, will become the “Berkshire Hathaway of drug development.”


https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathan...drug-companies-from-thin-air/?sh=a6ae9d54f392

- As a Biotech CEO Vivek Ramaswamy signed a letter supporting the “principles and best practices to increase gender diversity” in the life sciences industry, just five years later Ramaswamy became a mouthpiece against similar goals.

Vivek Ramaswamy cosigned a 2017 “Open Letter to the BioPharma Community” that includes an explicit commitment “to drive diversity as a top priority.”

Claiming that he is the “true outsider”:


Vivek Ramaswamy's Roivant Advisory Board

Kathleen Sebelius

Kathleen Sebelius previously served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Barack Obama, where she presided over 11 operating divisions, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health and oversaw the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Before that, she served as governor of Kansas.

https://theorg.com/org/roivant-sciences/org-chart/kathleen-sebelius
https://www.marketscreener.com/business-leaders/Kathleen-Sebelius-0FCNFR-E/biography/


Tom Daschle

Senator Daschle is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic leaders in history and one of only two to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. During his tenure, Senator Daschle navigated the Senate through some of its most historic economic and national security challenges. He served for three years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Command. After military service, he spent five years as an aide to South Dakota Senator James Abourezk before seeking elected office. Senator Daschle is the Founder and CEO of The Daschle Group, A Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson. As a well-known expert on health policy reform, he has written two books: "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis" and "Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform"

https://biography.omicsonline.org/united-states-of-america/roivant-sciences/thomas-daschle-967225


Olympia Snowe

Republican Senator Maine
Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee

Data, once present, is no longer present.

- [Libertarian???] candidate Vivek Ramaswamy forgot that he voted for Libertarian Candidate Michael Badnarik in the 2004 election (did Vivek actually vote for Badnarik, or is the claim due to his presidential run?):

Ramaswamy notably asserted in two interviews released on June 30 and July 12 that he did not vote until 2020, when he backed former President Donald Trump over now-President Joe Biden.


- 2024 presidential candidate @VivekGRamaswamy tells @SymoneDSanders Ukraine is basically a client state of the United States, and he would require Putin to exit his military partnership with China.

VivekGR: Ukraine is a client state of the United States.

1. Vivek stated that he and his family never owned guns their entire lives. The question is, did he buy a gun before, or after, he registered as a Republican and filed to run for POTUS?

2. Vivek stated that we have a mental health epidemic across America and mentions banning social media from people under 15 or 16.

3. Vivek mentions fentanyl, but failed to mention the failed and remarketed drugs that he pushed through the FDA (around the time the PREP Act was invoked?) and sold to human beings to make his fortune.

4. Vivek wants to shut down the FBI (<--I am all for it, but not for this-->) and replace it with a "Police Apparatus", so that said Police Apparatus can actually do the job of Background Checks. He also wants to transfer 15,000 FBI Agents to the DEA.

5. Vivek wants to eliminate the FedDeptEd (<--I am all for it, but not for this-->) and use part of that money to put 3 LEO in every school.

In 2020, he called a bill "sensible" from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would provide people taxpayer-backed masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. But on Aug. 1, 2023, Ramaswamy replied, "No," when asked if he "ever supported 'Masks for All' legislation by Bernie Sanders," records show.

https://gazette.com/news/wex/lose-y...cle_4030f2ea-d60a-5ea6-b6d2-0c1586cb5c75.html

In Ramaswamy’s Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, he proposes the idea of a 59% minimum inheritance tax.

Ramaswamy draws the number from suggestions proposed by economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez.

Piketty, an avowed socialist, authored Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021.

“Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology,” the book’s Amazon description reads.

Saez co-authored The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, which advocates a “form of capitalist reformism similar to that of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,” according to World Socialist Web Site.

“If anything, I’d take the figure Piketty and Saez arrive at as a minimum. We shouldn’t allow people to become billionaires just by having rich parents,” Ramaswamy wrote.

- Vivek Ramaswamy Open to Pardoning Hunter Biden if Elected President


- Vivek Ramaswamy Tried To Sell The Feds A National Medical Surveillance System


- Vivek Ramaswamy Strikes Again, This Time Launching a Beijing-based Biotech Player with a Pipeline

https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1696203626824319465

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy stated in a Tuesday Twitter post that he is the only candidate who has committed, as president, to “militarily defending Taiwan” against China. Expanding on his war pledge, Ramaswamy wrote:

I favor strategic clarity: Defend Taiwan vigorously until the U.S. achieves semiconductor independence, then resume the posture of strategic ambiguity when the stakes are lower for the U.S. The American way of life depends on leading-edge semiconductors manufactured in Taiwan, and we can’t risk China gaining near-total leverage over the entire U.S. economy.
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In the meantime, Ramaswamy calls for the US government to pursue expansive militaristic activities in and near Taiwan, stating “the U.S. should rapidly arm and train Taiwan with Anti-Access/Area Denial weapons while running at least one destroyer warship through the Taiwan Strait each week.” That sounds like a recipe for provoking the attack by China that Ramaswamy promises he would use the US military to counter.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2023/august/29/no-war-for-semiconductors/

Vivek Ramaswamy: "I am dead set against a National Divorce of any kind."

https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1704514274549530787

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For a list of 2024 candidates:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?563125-2024-Presidential-Candidates-And-Information

 

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[oyarde]

i'm ready to see the swami's platform.

 

[PAF]

i'm ready to see the swami's platform.

Remember Flip-Flop-Mitt?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1674549334870831104

 

[PAF]

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1674549334870831104

[My same response in the other thread:]

Mixed responses in that thread.

How about, government has no business either way, or at all, and should cut all funding and let the individual colleges decide who it wants to admit. Then the free market takes over, people either pay out of pocket for education, or are awarded scholarship money from local communities and/or company sponsorship.

 

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[tebowlives]

This is interesting

 

[dannno]

 

[LatinsforPaul]

Vivek voted Libertarian when he was 19 and first voted in 2004...

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1684186643895386113?t=WBiVAJXVDtTXIWykzqHLMQ&s=19

 

[PAF]

Vivek voted Libertarian when he was 19 and first voted in 2004...

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1684186643895386113?t=WBiVAJXVDtTXIWykzqHLMQ&s=19

Flip-flop much... again?

How on earth does a TRUE LIBERTARIAN forget that he voted for Michael Badnarik in 2004??? I mean, seriously, I will never forget the first time that I voted for Ron Paul.

Ramaswamy notably asserted in two interviews released on June 30 and July 12 that he did not vote until 2020, when he backed former President Donald Trump over now-President Joe Biden.


And for the record, Michael Badnarik [RIP] was solid, he was scheduled to speak at our Constitution Event a few years back but unfortunately was rushed to the hospital because of his heart condition. Charlie Earl took his spot and spoke instead.

 

[Anti-Neocon]

I get that Vivek is an opportunist and I don't trust him at all not to flip-flop on this, but he's still willing to say things that others won't, so in a choice between Vivek, Trump, and DeSantis I can see how he'd be more appealing.

Link - "Vivek Ramaswamy says US should not give Israel more aid than to others in the Middle East"

 

[Anti-Neocon]

The more I think about it, the voting idea might be the biggest deal-breaker for me.

Young people have the most remaining years invested in the country, and they are going to specifically be discriminated against.

Now I get that some people want to be equally as cynical as Democrats regarding who is able to vote, thinking it's the only way to have a chance at power, but think about it. What percentage of 18-24s actually vote? Do you think it's actually the kind who can't pass tests who turn out? No, it's the higher educated ones, look at how universities are the hotbed for socialism. And what happens when this idea is flipped inside out and senile older people lose out on the ability to vote?

 

[PAF]

OP has been updated.

In Ramaswamy’s Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, he proposes the idea of a 59% minimum inheritance tax.

Ramaswamy draws the number from suggestions proposed by economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez.

Piketty, an avowed socialist, authored Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021.

“Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology,” the book’s Amazon description reads.

Saez co-authored The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, which advocates a “form of capitalist reformism similar to that of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,” according to World Socialist Web Site.

“If anything, I’d take the figure Piketty and Saez arrive at as a minimum. We shouldn’t allow people to become billionaires just by having rich parents,” Ramaswamy wrote.

 

[Murray N Rothbard]

Interesting and brave candidate. Let's not tear him to shreds, CNN and the MSM are already attempting to do that.

For the time being, all indications are he's one of us and someone 1000x more preferable vs all current alternatives.

 

[PAF]

Interesting and brave candidate. Let's not tear him to shreds, CNN and the MSM are already attempting to do that.

For the time being, all indications are he's one of us and someone 1000x more preferable vs all current alternatives.

He is brilliant indeed and very well spoken, folks seem pleasantly ecstatic over him. I am sure that over the years, and in Ivy League schools, he has studied an awful lot of books.

Referencing Post #14, I am curious as to why of all economic models, he would center his "solution" around this:

Mises Wire: Piketty Wants to Bring Back Communism in the Guise of Democratic Socialism

More here: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?564135-Thomas-Piketty-on-Inequality-and-Capital

 

[CaptUSA]

Interesting and brave candidate. Let's not tear him to shreds, CNN and the MSM are already attempting to do that.

For the time being, all indications are he's one of us and someone 1000x more preferable vs all current alternatives.

+rep

I may have been guilty of that myself. You're right.

I hope I made it clear that I like lots of what Vivek is saying. I just get a purely emotional feeling that he's playing a character. But I really like the character if he can become it. Sometimes people have to fake it long enough before they believe it themselves.

 

[Anti-Neocon]

+rep

I may have been guilty of that myself. You're right.

I hope I made it clear that I like lots of what Vivek is saying. I just get a purely emotional feeling that he's playing a character. But I really like the character if he can become it. Sometimes people have to fake it long enough before they believe it themselves.

When has the bolded worked out?

 

[acptulsa]

When has the bolded worked out?

It has been known to work.

Right up until push comes to shove...

 

[Intrepid]

You will know a man not by his friends, but by his enemies.