According to newly obtained financial records, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was already a millionaire when he accepted a Soros scholarship to pay for law school.
Ramaswamy accepted the $90,000 award from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2011.
Paul Soros is the deceased older brother of billionaire globalist George Soros.
From the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans:
VIVEK RAMASWAMY is the founder and CEO of Roivant Sciences.
Vivek was born in Cincinnati to Indian parents. In high school he was class valedictorian, a nationally ranked junior tennis player and an accomplished pianist.
Vivek graduated from Harvard College in 2007, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a major in biology. Later he entered Yale Law School.
While at Harvard, a precis of his senior thesis, on the ethical questions raised by creating human-animal chimeras was published in the Boston Globe and The New York Times. He was chairman of the Harvard Political Union and served as one of three undergraduates chosen for an advisory board for the selection of the current president of Harvard. During his senior year, Vivek co-founded StudentBusinesses.com, a technology startup company which connected entrepreneurs with professional resources via the internet, and he led the company to its acquisition in 2009.
After Harvard college, Vivek worked for three years in life sciences investing in New York before pursuing his law degree.
Fox News reports:
When Ramaswamy accepted the award in 2011, he was a first-year law student at Yale and had been working for several years as an investment analyst at the hedge fund QVT Financial.
In 2011, the same year he accepted the award, Ramaswamy reported $2,252,209 in total income, according to his tax returns, which he released in June. He reported a total of $1,173,690 in income in the three years prior.
“Vivek won a generic scholarship that hundreds of students win to attend graduate school,” his campaign’s spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, told Fox News Digital. “It was funded by a relative of George Soros who is long dead.”
“Vivek would have been a fool to turn down that scholarship – Anyone who would have shouldn’t get anywhere near the White House doing trade deals,” she continued. “In fact, there’s only one candidate that will be on stage Wednesday night whom George Soros has said he wants to win this primary – and it’s not Vivek.”
Ramaswamy previously said he “didn’t have the money” while attending law school in his 20s.
“There was a separate scholarship that I won at the age of 24, 25, when I was going to law school in my mid-20s, in my early 20s, when I didn’t have the money, it was a merit scholarship that hundreds of kids win that was partially funded not by George Soros, but by Paul Soros a relative, his brother,” Ramaswamy told Jack Posobiec.
“And to be perfectly honest with you, I would have had to be a fool to turn down that scholarship at the age of 24,” he added.
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