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Ramaswamy caught lying about a minor traffic accident ... claims his car was rammed intentionally

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by WarDamnGator, Oct 6, 2023.

  1. VAg8r1

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    Two of the three Trumps are persons of color. Donald the original is orange and Vivek is brown.
     
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  2. kygator

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    So the woman backing out of the parking space and flipping him off isn't the same one that hit his car?
     
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  3. rivergator

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    It's like an assassination! The driver should rot in prison!

    https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-ne...amaswamys-rental-car-while-leaving-deli-right
     
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  4. BossaGator

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    What a tool
     
  5. Sohogator

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    To be fair to him almost everyone he sees flips him off. He probably has waking nightmares about this.
     
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  6. kygator

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    Where is the actual quote from Ramaswamy? I don’t see where he said the driver fled the scene. She also clearly honked her horn and flipped him off. The police never said that she didn’t, despite what the OP claimed.
     
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  7. tampagtr

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  8. domgator

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    Weird because I saw an interview with him right after it happened and he said it wasn't a big deal because nobody was in his car but that the police were trying to locate the driver of the car because they did leave the scene. Sounds like libs trying to make a big deal out of a minor traffic incident.
     
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  9. rivergator

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    Police said she didn’t leave the scene right? And it’s folks on right wing media saying the driver should rot in prison.
     
  10. kygator

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    Yes, well those people are idiots.
     
  11. Sohogator

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    I see your confusion. He was speaking and lying as he is wont to do. You swallowed it.
     
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  12. PITBOSS

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    He is on X making those statements along with his campaign spokespersons.

    “Ramaswamy spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told The Associated Press that the campaign stands by its assessment that the driver was a protester. She also stood by her assessment that there were two people in the car that hit the campaign car.”

    Police say the woman told them she was not there protesting anything, had no idea whose vehicle she had hit, did not intentionally cause the crash and did not flee the scene. Police say there is no evidence to substantiate the claim that protesters intentionally hit Ramaswamy’s campaign vehicle and sped off.”

    “I’m confident of what happened. I was there,” McLaughlin said.

    Ramaswamy says angry protesters rammed his car in Iowa; police say no evidence crash was intentional
     
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  13. GatorFanCF

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    It's stupid and shame on Vivek for the comment. If you think it's "MAGA" you're sorely lacking in awareness. Just look up Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden (separately) "dodging" bullets while visiting our troops. Sadly, they mostly all suck.
     
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  14. gator_lawyer

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    Well, shit. This thread has me in an impossible position. Believe the police, who often lie, or believe the Republican politician who often lies. :emoji_confounded:
     
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  15. PITBOSS

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    yep, other than a lone police report and without bystander accounts outside of his campaign.
     
  16. GatorJMDZ

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    Except the woman who supposedly fled is the one who called the police and remained on scene until they arrived and issued her a citation.
     
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  17. mrhansduck

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    Let’s hope the cops there use body cams.
     
  18. WarDamnGator

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    oh man…. They’ve added to the story that Ramaswamy’s car was illegally parked at the time of the accident, but was moved to a legal space before police arrived and they didn’t tell police they moved it.

    “On Friday, the Grinnell College student news site reported that the Ramaswamy vehicle was illegally parked in a no-parking zone at the time of the accident and that it was moved to a legal parking space without telling police.”

    Iowa police: Protesters not involved in crash into Ramaswamy's vehicle
     
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  19. GatorJMDZ

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    I think it's pathological at this point. He's not Trump, he doesn't have a built in base that will believe anything that comes out of his mouth, no matter how obvious the lie.
     
  20. PITBOSS

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    Below is his his tweet.
    But agree, it’s a bit vexing. the police report says they didn’t intentionally do it and there isn’t much damage after “ramming” someone’s car. Plus I think we all agree maga embraces openly lying to their followers, play victim, and encouraging conspiracies for political gain. But on the other side, Vivek and his campaign are so emphatic about what they say happened. Why go to those lengths if it was totally innocent per police report.


    Maybe they are a anti-Vivek young couple who said obnoxious comments and drove off and accidentally hit his car. The campaign quickly & casually made claims without thinking and the accusation took off.


     
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