republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy had an awkward moment msnbc on Wednesday night, when he seemed unable or unwilling to explain his own past criticisms of donald trump.
Host Mehdi Hasan asked Ramaswamy of a tweet calling out Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021: “downright abhorrent” which he wrote a week after supporters of the then-president attacked the United States Capitol in an attempt to block the certification of the electoral vote he made Joe Biden the next president.
Hasan asked Ramaswamy to explain what Trump did that day that he found “frankly abhorrent.”
He didn’t answer, despite being asked repeatedly.
“You are avoiding my question,” Hasan asked after the first attempt failed. “What did donald trump Was that, in your opinion, ‘downright abhorrent’?
“No, I’m not avoiding your question,” Ramaswamy said, and then he avoided the question.
“Unless you’re afraid of him, why don’t you say what he did was ‘downright abhorrent’?” Hasan asked. “It is a simple question. They are your words. It’s on the screen.”
Ramaswamy has been careful when talking about Trump, often praising him and promising pardon he is chosen. He has also said that he would offer a place to the former president in his own administration should he win the presidency in 2024.
Trump has reciprocated by offering praise to Ramaswamy.
“Anyone who says I’m the best president in a generation… I’ve got to like a guy like that.” told Glenn Beck last monthand said Ramaswamy “would be very good” as a possible running mate.
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