US President Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy.
\n\nPresident Donald Trump has weighed in on the uproar over an Ohio campaign ad, even as he insisted he knows nothing about it. The ad comes from Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican running for governor, and it features the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton.
\n\nA reporter raised the issue with Trump outside the White House on Wednesday. At first, the president did not seem to know what the reporter was talking about and asked where it was happening. After the reporter explained, Trump said he had heard that Acton’s mother “went against her,” but did not see what that had to do with Ramaswamy.
\n\nThe reporter then told him Acton had been sexually abused as a child by her mother’s husband, and asked if the ad was appropriate. Trump replied that if the ad were about a Republican, the press would “let it go,” and said that is why the question was being asked.
\n\nHe repeated that he knows nothing about it. Still, he offered his own view of the family dispute. Trump said he hears the mother “went very rogue” on her daughter and does not have much respect for…
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