For those interested in something more than soundbites and slander, you might check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Obr5HIKK4Y
it's a 2-hour interview with Vivek Ramaswamy by Shawn Ryan.
Lots of interesting questions and responses here. Ryan actually lets Vivek talk without interrupting him.
But you also have to look at the source of this faux outrage. The author, Sam Nunberg, has had a remarkably stormy history with Trump, who seems to have cornered the market on dramatic personnel changes. If you'll recall, he was an early member of Trump's election team, but wound up getting fired several times and ultimately endorsed Ted Cruz, saying that Trump, IIRC, "lacked the temperment to be President".
Now he's in Newsweek, and finally gives his game away at the end of the piece: "
"In fact, according to people who know Ramaswamy, the goal of his campaign seems to be to block Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' path to the nomination by running as a MAGA-adjacent candidate.
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Serving as Donald Trump's political fullback and hiding unflattering information from voters may not be a crime, but it is part of a disturbing pattern with Ramaswamy, which goes something like this: Generate media buzz, pull out right before the crash, and leave a rubble behind for others to clean up. In this case, the ones who will have to clean up his mess are Republican primary voters."
None of which exonerates Ramaswamy, but this reads like more of the (increasingly insufferable) DeSantis cheer squad taking potshots at Trump than a genuine critique of Ramaswamy.
The way this piece and similar dross looks to me is that the GOPe has gone beyond anger, and has entered a state of despair. It's clear to anyone with a pulse that barring health issues Trump is going to be the nominee, so the "Trump Can't Win" crowd have moved on from trying to build DeSantis up to tearing Trump, and anyone adjacent down. They were never that far away from that, but now there's not even a figleaf.