Ramaswamy plans to visit Ground Zero on Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
that suggested federal agents may have been aboard the planes that crashed that day.
The criticism comes as Ramaswamy is slated to visit Ground Zero Monday for the tragedy’s 22nd anniversary. “It spits in the face of the thousands of lives that we lost on that day and subsequently,” Hurd said of Ramaswamy’s comments at a campaign stop here.in August. “I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. It probably is zero for all I know, right?” Ramaswamy told reporter John Hendrickson.
During an interview with NBC News in Iowa on Saturday, Hurd said Ramaswamy is running to be “the chief gaslighter of America.” The former congressman said he hopes Ramaswamy visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum during his visit to New York City Monday.He said that even people on his team have lost family members to 9/11, adding,"That’s what Monday is about. And I’m ashamed that other politicians are trying to politicize this in their desperate attempts to find relevance.