Ramaswamy says his campaign produced Amy Acton attack ad, will spend $4M to air it
Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad targeting Amy Acton’s childhood trauma crosses every line of human decency. The ad circulated without disclosing who was behind it. His campaign initially dodged responsibility, then Vivek admitted it was his and plans to spend $4 million to promote it.
Court records confirm Acton’s stepfather was arrested & charged w/sexually abusing her when she was 12. He fled prosecution & remained a fugitive until he died in 2024. Her mother chose her rapist husband over her daughter and stayed married to him. Here, Vivek finally admitting the ad was his.
Ramaswamy?? The same Ramaswamy who made a fortune pumping and dumping an alzheimers drug he knew didnt work, using fake medical studies concocted by his mother ??? THAT Ramaswamy ????
Sorry mf, I wish Vivek the absolute worst.
$4M for this despicable Ad could have fed alot of the 6M people Donald cut off of SNAP!
A horrible family situation. Not only has Vivek/MAGA dredged up this tragedy to shamelessly attempt to disparage Acton, I see an element of elder exploitation in bringing out this old woman who has clung to a sick delusion for decades. Vivek/MAGA are truly the worst ppl.
The Republican Party has no “as low as you can go” point. They always will find a way to go lower
That man is straight up evil.
This is your pro life, Family Values, Christian Party. The Christian Church has acted like the devil ( Protecting Rapists and ALWAYS the Church sides with the Hate Groups, Nazis and Neo Nazis.) Why don't we call out the systemic racism in our churches ?
Vivek put out a ad targeting all child rape victims while trying to get the GOP rapist sympathizer vote by implying that all child accusers are liars and in turn, Amy Anton who was sexually abusing her as a child by her stepfather is a liar.
I've seen a lot of disgusting political commercials, and I am almost numb to the lies and gross misrepresentations at this point, but the Vivek Ramaswamy commercial with Amy Acton's mother is the worst thing I've ever seen.
I had to explain the backstory to a friend because they (without all the details) thought it was awful, but not horrific. After the backstory, they just stared at me for about 30 seconds before muttering 'holy shit'.
Absolutely unacceptable and needs to be universally condemned. But the GOP has no capacity for shame.
* long estranged, abusive birth mother from whom Amy and her siblings were removed by the state 
Yep. Vivek is one of the worst. No redeeming qualities in that creep.
What’s worse is how the his campaign doubled down. These people disgust me.
And Acton became even more relatable to so many people. Someone in Vivek's campaign hates him very very much.
Ramaswamy takes responsibility for his campaign’s craven ad with Amy Acton’s mother and still plans to spend millions promoting it: apnews.com/article/elec...
Just when you thought a MAGA Republican can’t any more degrading there’s always something else. With the economic conditions facing this country, Ramaswamy has no solutions just attacking his opponent with her sexual abuse trauma. Disgusting.
Yeah, abuse a woman in a campaign ad. I'm sure that will win you voters. If he will do this, how far will he go in the future? The choice is now so easy!
It isn't possible to be more despicable than this.
Ramaswamy is bragging about his ad. He likes it and thinks it’s great for him. He really doesn’t give one shit about serving Ohioans, that’s for sure. He’s the most selfish shitbird in the party, even republicans hate him. But they support him, that’s who they are.
1- Amy Acton needs to show the papers that show her and brothers' removal from their mother when she was 12. 2- Who is going to produce an ad showing as many as possible lies of Trump from 9/11 to now.
We are so deep in the gutter that it's not funny.
The premise of the commercial is “Amy Acton is so bad that I, her mother, abandoned her before she hit her teenage years.” That’s AT BEST.
I managed to see the ad before I read the backstory, and even then, wow, okay, they found a crazy person who believes that her kid was The Bad Seed.
It's so lethally poisonous that Cernovich bailed out fer chrissakes bsky.app/profile/shoe...
We weren't homeless we had a tent provided by my allegedly a pedophile boyfriend whom I jumped bail with.
What if the kid had bad vibes tho?
Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy is facing backlash for a campaign ad featuring Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother. Acton’s mother stood by and fled the state with her husband after he was arrested for raping Amy as a child.
@mika-brzezinski.bsky.social blasts Ramaswamy for platforming Acton's mother in the attack ad.
Mika just gave an eloquent rant about the moral depravity of US policy in Ukraine & in GOP politics & policy. She needs to add a rant about the moral depravity of the UAE, with whose leadership she partners for Know Your Value. UAE enables genocide in Sudan.
A hundred years ago, American Racism gave us the concept of the "Yellow-dog Democrat." Today's "Christianity as politics" has given us a modern analogue: the "Godless Republican." Someone who would vote for even the most ungodly and evil among us - as long as they're in the GOP.
Ramaswamy's ugly character reminds me much of Piggy Trump's character. Just another billionaire trying to steal an election with blatant lies and gross characterizations of his political opponent. Republicans, for the life of our democracy, must keep distance from these disgusting billionaires!
Thanks Micah for discussing Ohio. The ads and the lies are so hurtful. As I cry while I write this. This election can’t be over soon enough for all of us. Vote for individuals that care please Ohio. Vote Blue
Mika spitting facts! Love it!
Vivek Ramswamy spent most of Tuesday refusing to confirm or deny that he was behind a widely condemned ad starring the estranged mother of Democrat Amy Acton. He ended it by announcing that he made the ad and would now spend $4 million to air it.
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This is what I mean. This guy's whole deal has been slanderous AI television spots, but now it's cranked up to a degree even he won't even control. This turd learned from the worst of them when he was kicked out (!) of fucking DOGE, and now we're seeing it. Just a horrific maggot of a human being