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Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-09-26): Ramaswamy initially said he would be open to considering pardons for the "Biden family," but later said he wouldn’t pardon the president’s son, Hunter Biden. The New York Post wrote in August that Ramaswamy said, "After we have shut down the FBI, after we have refurbished the Department of Justice, after we have systematically pardoned anyone who was a victim of a (politically) motivated persecution — from Donald Trump and peaceful January 6 protests — then … I would be open to evaluating pardons for members of the Biden family in the interest of moving the nation forward." But on X the next day, Ramaswamy wrote, "No, I don’t have any plans to pardon Hunter Biden. It’s planted trash. When you strike the swamp, the swamp strikes back."
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-09-26): Ramaswamy initially said he would be open to considering pardons for the "Biden family," but later said he wouldn’t pardon the president’s son, Hunter Biden. [...] But on X the next day, Ramaswamy wrote, "No, I don’t have any plans to pardon Hunter Biden. It’s planted trash. When you strike the swamp, the swamp strikes back." [...] New York Post, GOP 2024 candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ‘open’ to pardon of Hunter Biden, Aug. 12, 2023
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-08-15): FACT CHECK: Did Vivek Ramaswamy Say He Doesn’t Have Any Plans To Pardon Hunter Biden If Elected President In 2024?
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-08-13): On Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized the appointment of U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. [...] According to the New York Post, Ramaswamy said that he would consider pardoning Hunter Biden in order to move the nation forward, following a period of what he considers "politically motivated persecution." "After we have shut down the FBI, after we have refurbished the Department of Justice, after we have systemically pardoned anyone who was a victim of a political motivated persecution, from Donald Trump and peaceful January 6 protests, then would I be open to evaluating pardons for members of the Biden family in the interest of moving the nation forward," Ramaswamy told the newspaper.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-08-12): GOP 2024 candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ‘open’ to pardon of Hunter Biden GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is considering issuing hundreds of pardons should he be elected president — eventually including members of the Biden family. [...] "I am calling for a special counsel to investigate and publish all findings relating to Hunter Biden and Biden-family business dealings," Ramaswamy told The Post in June.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2024-01-03): GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says he wouldn't pardon Hunter BidenVivek Ramaswamy sits for an interview with Brianne Pfannenstiel of the Des Moines Register and Dasha Burns of NBC News in the Register newsroom.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-08-22): There are still more bizarre lines on his résumé, like Bloomberg’s recent report on how employees from the "anti-woke" hedge fund he co-founded in 2022 have sued him for "misrepresent[ing] the company’s finances to employees and investors," "aggressively pushing employees to violate securities law," and retaliating against a worker "for raising concerns about sexual harassment at the firm." Going back even further, consider his biotech startup Roivant, which only ever produced a handful of approved commercial drugs despite fundraising billions of dollars over a yearslong period. Or his repurposing of Trumpian branding to the extent that his all-caps, block-lettered TRUTH logo closely resembles that of Trump’s own Truth Social network. Or his critiques of the Hunter Biden probe juxtaposed with his purported willingness to pardon Hunter should Ramaswamy take the White House (what is the position here, honestly?). Or his quippy description of himself as a "nonwhite nationalist." Or his campaign’s frequent habit of paying Wikipedia editors to remove certain details from his page. Or the whispers from past associates that this run is all a publicity charade ("It’s clear that he’s been wanting to be famous for a long time").
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2024-10-09): 5/ Hunter Biden was found guilty on three counts related to his illegal purchase of a handgun when he was using narcotics. Hunter Biden, a private citizen who has never sought elective office or been part of a presidential administration, is the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime. He faces up to 25 years in prison. The charges were brought by special counsel David Weiss, who was appointed by Trump, after a plea deal fell apart in the courtroom last July. Weiss said he brought the case because nobody âis above the law.â Trump â who has continued to falsely claim his conviction on 34 felony counts of election interference involving falsified business records to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star was âriggedâ and that âthis is all done by Biden and his peopleâ â baselessly suggested without evidence that Hunter Bidenâs guilty verdict was a âdistraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family.â Joe Biden, meanwhile, said he will ârespect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal.â Earlier this month, Biden said he would not pardon his son.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-01-01): President Biden told reporters at the G7 summit in Italy that he was 'extremely proud' of his son Hunter but would not pardon his felonies. [...] Vivek Ramaswamy, former US presidential aspirant, argued Hunter’s trial is a 'sham’ and cautioned everyone to stay smart and not fall for the trap.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-08-29): U.S. 2024 Republican Presidential Primaries - New York Times, Vivek Ramaswamy, the Millennial, Has a Lot to Say About His Generation - New York Times, Fact-Checking Vivek Ramaswamy on the Campaign Trail - New York Times, Ramaswamy-Pence Clash Shows New Right’s Radical Break From Reaganism - The New Republic, Vivek Ramaswamy Paid Wikipedia Editors to Erase His Soros Fellowship and Covid Work - Washington Post, Opinion: Ramaswamy brings a Trumpian brazenness to denying the undeniable, George F. Will - Washington Post, Opinion: Everybody who liked the debate, raise your hand, Dana Milbank - Washington Post, Opinion: The time to stop Trump’s nomination is now, Jennifer Rubin - Washington Post, Analysis: Jonathan Turley’s deceptive Trump defense, Philip Bump - New York Times, First G.O.P. Debate: What a Few Seconds of Hand Raising Said About Trump’s G.O.P.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-07-22): Overall, Vivek Ramaswamy came across as an articulate, thoughtful, and substantive presidential candidate with a clearly defined nationalist vision. He aims to carry forward much of Trump’s agenda, but in a more positive and unifying way. [...] All right, Vivek Ramaswamy is finally on the program.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2024-01-18): "He experienced the highs of Trump before Trump and the lows of Trump before Trump," says Chris Grant, an adviser to Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign, which was suspended this week. "The ironic thing is I think Trump will come back and I think Chris will come back."
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-08-28): Things went particularly badly for his highest-polling rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and his bitterest critic in the group, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley solidified her popularity with those who timidly yearn for the pre-Trump era, while political novice Vivek Ramaswamy continued to build his popularity with the hard-core Trump base by taking the most extreme positions on many of their preferred bugbears. The other four were essentially also-rans, at least on that night.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-06-14): QUICK HITS - Long shot GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is calling on all other presidential aspirants—both Republicans and Democrats—to pledge to pardon Donald Trump if he is convicted.
Claim: purports Vivek Ramaswamy did not say he would pardon Hunter Biden if elected president (Post, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-03-30): I know this is a pipe dream but I'm hoping that Vivek Ramaswamy gets elected. He seems the lest slimey and most pragmatic among the pack. TBH I need to go live on an island because I'm just so done with the sesspool that is American Politics. [...] The same is not true for Trump today. Even if Biden pardoned Trump, establishment politics would continue to have to deal with him moving forward. He has shown no indication that he would stop attacking everything around him.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2023-07-22): The video stems from a 2018 Next News Network report. Since Trump is no longer the president, he does not have the authority to send troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2022-08-15): Whatever their personal differences, Mattis and Milley both knew that there was a tragic inevitability to the moment. Throughout his Presidency, Trump had sought to redefine the role of the military in American public life. In his 2016 campaign, he had spoken out in support of the use of torture and other practices that the military considered war crimes. Just before the 2018 midterms, he ordered thousands of troops to the southern border to combat a fake "invasion" by a caravan of migrants. In 2019, in a move that undermined military justice and the chain of command, he gave clemency to a Navy SEAL found guilty of posing with the dead body of a captive in Iraq. Many considered Trump’s 2018 decision to use the military in his preëlection border stunt to be "the predicate—or the harbinger—of 2020," in the words of Peter Feaver, a Duke University expert on civil-military relations, who taught the subject to generals at command school. When Milley, who had been among Feaver’s students, called for advice after Lafayette Square, Feaver agreed that Milley should apologize but encouraged him not to resign. "It would have been a mistake," Feaver said. "We have no tradition of resignation in protest amongst the military."
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2017-08-28): Around the same time, a recent video emerged on Facebook of Secretary of Defense James Mattis telling a small group of American troops, "You’re a great example of our country right now." He went on, "Our country, right now, it’s got problems that we don’t have in the military. You just hold the line until our country gets back to understanding and respecting each other and showing it." [...] "You just hold the line," Mattis told the troops—hang on to your toughness and your values—until things back home straighten out. Mattis must be telling himself to "hold the line" every day. The question is how far that line extends and how far he would go to hold it. [...] It’s not entirely Mattis’ fault that he has placed himself and the troops in this position. My guess is he’d rather not be anywhere near any awkward constitutional lines. By any measure, it would be good if we had an attorney general or secretary of state with the authority, integrity, and independence to play this sort of protective role. But we don’t. Mattis is what’s left as a potential bulwark to catastrophe, and this is, at once, assuring and disturbing.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2020-06-03): Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Wednesday castigated President Donald Trump as "the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people" in a forceful rebuke of his former boss as nationwide protests have intensified over the death of George Floyd. [...] But Mattis directed most of his ire at Trump, saying "Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside." Trump on Wednesday evening softened his tone around sending the military into American cities, saying, "I don’t think we’ll have to," before reiterating that he has "very strong powers to do it" in an interview with his former press secretary Sean Spicer.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2019-09-02): Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis served as President Trump’s first defense secretary, resigning his post in protest after Trump announced he would pull U.S. forces out of Syria. Now, Mattis has written a book, "Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead." He talks to Judy Woodruff about his philosophy of leadership and why he’s reluctant to weigh in on current policy from outside the administration.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2018-04-20): Blunt and no-nonsense, a retired four-star Marine Corps general deemed so tough on Iran that President Barack Obama’s team often clashed with him, Mattis has turned into the secret "peacenik" of the Trump Administration, as a former government official put it to me last week. A year ago, Mattis had also been wary of the first Trump-authorized missile strike on Syria, at least in the absence of a broader strategy toward the civil-war-torn country that eludes the Administration still. In the year since then, there had been numerous other occasions—some reported, many more not—when a blustering Trump had demanded military action only to run up against the calm but implacable opposition of his defense chief. And that dynamic more or less played out again last week in the White House Situation Room. "He was inclined to a farther-reaching strike," the Republican adviser who spoke with Trump said, "but he deferred to Secretary Mattis."
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2018-12-21): Though Trump once revered Mattis as "one of the most effective generals that we’ve had in many, many decades," their relationship had clearly drifted in recent months. Trump went as far as saying he was "sort of a Democrat" in an October interview. [...] Troops at the U.S.-Mexico border When the White House released a memo authorizing troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border to use lethal force, if necessary, against what Trump called an "invasion" of migrants, Mattis clarified that the troops wouldn’t even have firearms.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2020-06-06): But the nation’s top military leaders have a different perspective. In a series of striking critiques this week, senior retired military officers including former Secretary of Defense and retired Gen. James Mattis spoke out forcefully and unequivocally against the president. This is not a disagreement over policy, but rather an indictment of the commander in chief’s leadership and competency at a critical moment for the nation. For senior retired military officers to level such criticism against a serving president is unprecedented and signals a true constitutional crisis over American civil-military relations. [...] Throughout his tenure in office, Trump has voiced his approval of using active duty troops for domestic missions, ranging from border security to law enforcement. Throughout his tenure in office, Trump has voiced his approval of using active duty troops for domestic missions, ranging from border security to law enforcement. He informed America’s governors during the current crisis that he was placing Milley "in charge" of restoring order and repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy federal troops — perhaps even without a request by state leaders. The president apparently views such actions as demonstrations of strength, as opposed to a regrettable necessity, and even endorsed a senator’s dangerous call for the deployment of Army divisions to American cities.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2020-06-04): Ex-US Defence Secretary James Mattis has denounced President Donald Trump, saying he deliberately stokes division. [...] Mr Trump has described Mr Mattis repeatedly as an "overrated general".
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2020-06-04): President Donald Trump’s first secretary of defense, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, said in a remarkable 650-word statement to The Atlantic on Wednesday that the President is actively trying to divide the country and urged Americans to unite without him. Mattis has avoided directly criticizing Trump since his ouster in December 2018, but that changed after the administration used strong-arm tactics and dispatched authorities in riot gear to clear peaceful protesters in front of the White House this week so Trump could hold a photo op. Mattis, once the loyal general, unloaded on Trump and his threat to use the military to patrol US streets, which Mattis said would create a dangerous tension between the nation’s citizens and the troops who are meant to protect them. [...] - The military has only been used in US streets very rarely, most recently in Los Angeles in 1992. Trump can deploy the military to Washington, because it is a federal city and not party of a state. During the Civil Rights era, presidents used the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law, and deployed the military over the objections of governors. But Mattis argues here that the divide between civilian law enforcement and the military is part of the bedrock of US society.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2019-10-22): On Oct. 17, I attended the Al Smith Dinner, an annual charity gala in New York City. Political big-shots mingle with media celebrities and corporate executives. It is always an entertaining experience. This year’s keynote address was by retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, President Donald Trump’s erstwhile secretary of defense. Trump once praised Mattis profusely, but more recently has made him the object of his scorn, calling him "the world’s most overrated general." (Full disclosure: I know Jim Mattis and can report that he is among the finest officers I have met since I first donned a uniform 53 years ago.) [...] The barb was doubly surprising given Mattis’ previous reluctance to criticize his former commander in chief, a decision that has garnered its fair share of criticism. But there’s a reason for Mattis’ reluctance. Generals in Mattis’ position, even those who are retired, do not criticize the sitting president. Until this administration, Mattis’ joke would have been unthinkable. And yet, Mattis is merely the latest in a line of commanding officers who have recently rebuked the president’s decisions. This collective decision to go against such entrenched military traditions should give their warnings even more weight. When the generals are speaking out, something is really wrong.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2020-06-04): Retired Marine Gen. Jim Mattis, who resigned as President Trump's defense secretary nearly a year and a half ago over policy differences, has issued an extraordinary critique of the White House's handling of nationwide unrest, saying Trump has sought to divide Americans and warning against "militarizing our response" to the protests. [...] "Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens —much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside," Mattis wrote, referring to a series of events on Monday in which peaceful protesters were physically cleared from around the White House to make way for an appearance by the president, Bible in hand, outside a historic church. [...] The president responded to the criticism in a tweet, calling Mattis "the world's most overrated General," an insult Trump has fired off in the past.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2018-12-21): James Mattis, as defence secretary, was one of three retired generals in the Trump administration whose hope was to contain an ill-informed, temperamental, and unpredictable president. Now they’re all gone: national security adviser HR McMaster, pushed out early this year; White House chief of staff John Kelly, giving up at the end of December; and now Mattis, who resigned after losing hope that Trump can be restrained from impulsive actions, defying his advisers, threatening US allies and even embracing American foes. The catalyst for Mattis’s departure was Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw all 2,000 US troops from Syria. But the list of his concerns about Trump is far longer. They include the president’s views on the American presence in Afghanistan and his hostility towards NATO allies, as well as Trump’s affinity for Vladimir Putin, even as Russia pursues an aggressive foreign policy and intervenes in US domestic affairs.