GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy responded to former Vice President Mike Pence’s criticism of him for questioning the 9/11 Commission Report.
The 9/11 Commission Report was published by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States in 2004. The report consisted of the Commission’s “full and complete accounting of the facts and circumstances surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as recommendations for corrective measures that can be taken to prevent acts of terrorism.”
.@Mike_Pence says today he was “deeply offended” that I don’t trust that the government told us the full truth in the 9/11 Commission Report. Well, I find it offensive that our government repeatedly lies to us. Here’s the TRUTH: the FBI quietly declassified documents in 2021… https://t.co/cfCAc44mJi
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 9, 2023
In a recent interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader, Pence, who is also a candidate for president, said he was “deeply offended” that Ramaswamy didn’t trust that the government revealed the full truth in the 9/11 Commission Report, adding, “I understand he was probably in grade school on 9/11 and I was on Capitol Hill.”
Ramaswamy responded to Pence’s criticism in a social media post, saying, “Well, I find it offensive that our government repeatedly lies to us. Here’s the TRUTH: the FBI quietly declassified documents in 2021 that definitively reveal the government lied to the public about basic facts of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11, until documents were declassified and they changed their story 20 years later.”
Ramaswamy then noted how the FBI “changed its story” when it came to Omar al-Bayoumi, a 42-year-old graduate student, who “welcomed, housed, set up bank accounts, and gave rent money to the first two Qaida hijackers after they landed in Los Angeles in January 2000.”
“Al-Bayoumi claimed to have met the two terrorists entirely by chance: The 9/11 Commission report verified that Bayoumi’s altruism was in the name of hospitality, as he claimed. The FBI, 20 years later, changed its story. In documents declassified last year, the Bureau affirmed that Bayoumi was in fact an agent of the Saudi intelligence service who worked with Saudi religious officials and reported to the kingdom’s powerful ambassador in Washington,” Ramaswamy explained.
The presidential hopeful added, “U.S. government officials continue to lie about other matters of public importance,” citing the origin of Covid-19, knowledge about UAPs, Hunter Biden’s laptop, how taxpayer money is being spent in Ukraine, and the manifest of the Nashville shooter who identified as transgender.
Ramaswamy said the government’s falsehoods are complemented by a “complicit media that just accepts the prevailing narrative without question.”
“This fuels rampant public distrust. There is no credible evidence that 9/11 was an “inside job,” but ironically, when the government systematically lies about Saudi involvement and the media runs interference, that lends plausibility to an otherwise unlikely claim,” Ramaswamy said.
“There’s no such thing as a noble lie. With all due respect to the former VP, the reason the people don’t trust the government is because the government doesn’t trust the people,” Ramaswamy said.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Photo “Vivek Ramaswamy” by Vivek Ramaswamy. Photo “Mike Pence” by Mike Pence.
