Vivek Ramaswamy calls CNN’s Kaitlan Collins a ‘petulant teenager’ after clash over 9/11 claims

Vivek Ramaswamy calls CNN’s Kaitlan Collins a ‘petulant teenager’ after clash over 9/11 claims

Vivek Ramaswamy, the 2024 GOP presidential candidate, called CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins a “petulant teenager” in a Tuesday post on social media.

The comment was in response to a Monday interview.

“Hilarious interview with CNN last night,” Ramaswamy wrote in his post. “Felt like I was talking to a petulant teenager.”

On Monday, Collins asked Ramaswamy about an article in The Atlantic in which Ramaswamy questioned how many police or federal agents were on the planes that hit the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

He said he was misquoted.

“What I said is on Jan. 6, I do believe that there were many federal agents in the field, and we deserve to know who they are,” Ramaswamy said on CNN’s “The Source,” per The Hill. “On 9/11, what I’ve said is that the government lied — and this is incontrovertible evidence, Kaitlan — the government lied about Saudi Arabia’s involvement.”

Collins, an Alabama native, said she felt Ramaswamy was pushing false claims.

Collins in 2017 became CNN’s youngest-ever chief White House correspondent at age 29. She replaced Jim Acosta as chief White House correspondent in 2021.

Collins served as co-anchor on “CNN This Morning” with Don Lemon and Poppy Harlow prior to taking the reins of the primetime program The Source.

Collins is from Prattville and graduated from the University of Alabama in 2014.

Check out the full report at The Hill.