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Mehdi: "Did you not make 750,000 dollars?" Vivek Ramaswamy: "Not at the time I had applied for the [Soros] scholarship." Mehdi: "Yes you did Vivek. This is awkward for you because you did. I've got the tax returns in front of my face."

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[–] Hazdaz 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, actually asking some hard questions to Republican candidates? Let me guess, they are going to fire that reporter within a few weeks.

Imagine if our (usually) awful news media asked these kinds of questions to Trump nearly 8 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Nah. MSNBC won't fire him. You won't see Five-Head ever do another interview on the station ever again though.

[–] BertramDitore 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I totally understand the sentiment and would normally agree, but Mehdi Hasan is well known for this. He doesn’t take bullshit answers, he pushes relentlessly and always has the receipts on hand. Vivek either knew going in and thought he could stand his ground (few can), or didn’t know and should fire someone himself.

[–] Hazdaz 5 points 1 year ago

That's how ALL reporters should be. Instead, the vast majority of them give out one free pass after another to Republican candidates and yet hold Democrats to impossibly high standards.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

A Republican applying for Sorosbucks? Doesn't he know those belong to hard-working paid protestors?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I love this. I love how he doesn't accept the Gish Gallops. Completely railroads Vivek and his verbal diarrhea.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The guts it must take to fight against this bullshit in real time... mad respect.

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[–] satanmat 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Omg Vivek is so smug.

He's really learned form Trump about having it both ways on every issue.