Vivek Ramaswamy says his mother was defamed first by the Democrats. Who is Dr Geetha Ramaswamy?

Dr Geetha Ramaswamy at Vivek Ramaswamy's graduation. In the wake of a major controversy over roping in the estranged mother of the rival candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy said on Monday that he did not start this fight. He is ending this after he found himself in it and it wad his mother who got defamed first by the Democrats, Ramaswamy said. “I’ll tell you the advice I was raised in: You never start a fight, but if you find yourself in one, you finish it, and you have to stand for what is right and what is true,” Ramaswamy said. “They’ve attacked me. They’ve defamed my mother to media silence. It’s unbelievable. And yet, at the same time, they’ll trot out anything to attack a Republican.”Who is Vivek Ramaswamy's mother? How was she defamed?Ramaswamy's rival Amy Acton issued a press release on August 12, calling Ramaswamy a 'billionaire scammer' who used his mother to manipulate clinical trials in "pump and dump" scheme. Ramaswamy's mother is Dr Geetha Ramaswamy who worked at Ramaswamy's pharma company. In 2014, Ramaswamy founded Axovant, a pharma company. The Democrats alleged that he used the company to "buy the rights to an inauspicious Alzheimer's drug" thar had repeatedly failed clin...