Vivek Ramaswamy Calls Kamala Harris Big Tech ‘Puppet’ After Google Monopoly Ruling

Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed doubts about Kamala Harris’ ability to rein in corporate abuses while praising Donald Trump’s handling of Google following Monday’s antitrust ruling.

“I think that’s going to be President Trump and J.D. Vance’s strongest argument against Kamala Harris,” Ramaswamy said. “She’s just the latest puppet to come along.”

Newsweek reached out to the Harris campaign for a response to Ramaswamy’s comments.

The pharmaceutical entrepreneur, who briefly ran for the Republican Party nomination, made the comments in an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News Tuesday morning.

The pair discussed the characteristics of both candidates and the landmark ruling against Google issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

On Monday, a court ruled that the tech giant violated U.S. antitrust law by monopolizing the search and advertising market.

In his ruling, Justice Amit Mehta wrote: “Google is a monopoly and acts like a monopoly to maintain its monopoly.”

The case was first filed in October 2020, when the Justice Department accused Google of spending billions of dollars a year to strike deals with Apple, Samsung and others to make it the default search engine on their devices.

Laura Ingram called Trump a “Google killer,” noting that the case began in the final weeks of his administration, and called the company “Silicon Valley’s evil death star.”

Ramaswamy said this marks a “major evolution in the Republican Party,” which is now dealing with “backdoor deep state ties to Big Tech.”

“There is a common thread here, which is that we are not running against individual candidates,” Ramaswamy added. “We are running against the machine.”

He further claimed that Silicon Valley backed Kamala Harris because she had no clearly defined policy positions and that the companies can buy a “call option” on donor support, allowing them to influence the candidate once he takes office.

Last week, a group of more than 200 investors and technology leaders, including Mark Cuban and Vinod Khosla, pledged their support for the vice president’s campaign.

On its website, Venture Capitalists for Kamala, the group wrote: “At this pivotal moment, we stand united in our support for Vice President Kamala Harris.”

“What they’re doing now is putting a down payment on a puppet they can control,” Ramaswamy said. “They know President Trump is not like that.”

He cited the public endorsement of Reid Hoffman, co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn.

On Saturday, New York Times published an editorial by Hoffman in which the entrepreneur argued that her “knowledge of the needs of the technology industry and her ability to innovate and protect the public interest make her a 21st century leader.”

“He’s made it clear what policies he wants her to pass,” Ramaswamy said. “The fact that he’s making that public and yet giving money suggests that they’re not really supporting her policies, but their policies that they hope to actually shape.”

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