Former Republican presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was booed more than once at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. on Friday, first just for even mentioning Donald Trump, who is speaking at the event on Saturday.
Ramaswamy, who has long claimed to be libertarian if not part of the Libertarian Party, has become even more of a Trump supporter since losing in the Republican primary than he was during it – a primary in which he and presumptive nominee Trump largely avoided criticizing one another.
When speaking to the convention crowd on Friday evening, Ramaswamy brought up Trump as he was asking whether the gathered attendees would rather be happy with getting a very small percent of the vote than having any influence on a Trump administration — and the booing began just at the mention of Trump’s name.
Ramaswamy was booed a second time when he said the only way to “save this country” is with a “libertarian-nationalist alliance.”
He did win back some cheers later in his remarks when he called for shutting down the FBI, the ATF, the CDC, the TSA, the FTC, and the Department of Education, as well as for firing “75% of the federal bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. and send them home packing.”