It turns out Vivek Ramaswamy was so concerned about a couple of items on his Wikipedia page that he paid an editor to remove them before he ran for president.

One being a connection to the Soros family and the other, his participation in Ohio’s COVID-19 response:

Longshot presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has accused his prospective Republican rivals of parroting him, but Ramaswamy himself has made an intentional effort to conceal his own biography, even paying a Wikipedia editor to remove potentially politically damaging details about his past from his page.

Ramaswamy’s Wikipedia page includes the warning, “this article has multiple issues,” with a note that it “contains paid contributions” and “may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia’s content policies, particularly neutral point of view.”

The source of these concerns are changes made by an editor with the screen name “Jhofferman,” who has disclosed that he was paid by Ramaswamy to make alterations to the page.

According to the article’s version history, the editor removed lines about Ramaswamy’s receipt of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2011. Paul Soros was the older brother of billionaire funder of leftist causes George Soros, who was the biggest individual political donor in the United States during the 2022 election cycle. Also removed from the page on February 9, 2023 was Ramaswamy’s role on the state of Ohio’s Covid-19 Response Team. The editor recorded that Ramaswamy’s Covid-era work was removed from the article by the candidate’s own explicit request, while his Soros fellowship was deemed “extraneous material” by the editor.

The editor’s conflict of interest was debated by Wikipedia users and editors after the alterations were made; the reference to Ramaswamy’s fellowship was later added back to the page, although his tenure on the Ohio Covid Team remains absent.

Ramaswamy announced his candidacy for the White House a little less than two weeks after the changes to his page were made.

Mediaite writes that the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship didn’t come with any progressive activism, but clearly Ramaswamy wanted to make sure it didn’t hurt his chances to be the Republican candidate for president. You can bet that ship has sailed.

Even if this is benign and he has not an inkling of progressivism in his bones, no one is going to believe him when he tries to explain this away. I think this is going to be the concern of most Republicans now:

I never thought Ramaswamy had much of a chance to win in the first place, but whatever slight chance that was has just gotten even smaller.