Vivek Ramaswamy says he won't spend any money to help Trump campaign: report

Vivek Ramaswamy gave a ringing endorsement to former President Donald Trump, now the presumptive nominee, when he dropped out of the presidential contest. But it appears there is a hard limit on that support.

According to The Daily Beast, when Ramaswamy — businessman who staked his campaign on eliminating "wokeness" and downsizing the federal government — was asked on Fox News whether he would donate to the Trump election effort, he appeared to shut the door on that possibility.

“You’re a very successful businessman—a biotech entrepreneur — and you’ve made hundreds of millions of dollars. We’re told that Donald Trump has asked Elon Musk for some support. I don’t know if that’s true or not. Elon Musk made it clear that he’s not giving to either Joe Biden or Donald Trump,” said anchor Neil Cavuto. “I’m just wondering, if he were to go to you and say, ‘All right, can you loan my campaign some money?’ What would you say?”

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Ramaswamy replied, “So look, Donald Trump is not in need of anybody else’s help or anything else. He’s in the pole position to do this well.”

When Cavuto pointed out that Trump's campaign was in fact flat broke, Ramaswamy said, “The beauty of this is you have grassroots supporters. That’s actually been the character of the America First movement. It isn’t a movement of just big check writers, as it is for much of the Democratic Party and the establishment wing of the Republican Party. Say no to the politics of yesterday. Say no to the puppetry. The beauty of that America First movement, including what propelled Donald Trump and the America First movement forward, was a bottom-up uprising.”

All of this comes at a moment when not only is the Trump campaign and its PACs facing financial difficulties, but the army of groups that sprung up to help investigate election conspiracy theories have plowed through their funds as well.