The full story of how this ad got made is obvious now. 1. Vivek's team produced the ad. 2. Campaigners refused to greenlight it. 3. Vivek 'leaks' the sympathetic right-wing media. 4. Media publishes it for him. 5. He boosts it to circumvent FEC rules. This explains everything: "Who made it?" Vivek and his team. "Did it run?"It never ran on TV. "Why does it look like a real ad?" Was meant to be one. "Where's the FEC disclaimer?" It didn't need one. "How did it leak?" Deliberately to RW media. "Why did they do it like this?" Someone very loudly decried it as being below the belt and a bad look, and Vivek (being the 170 IQ elite human capital that he is) realized he could get the message out, smear his opponent, keep his name off the ad, and (most importantly) save money by simply leaking it to imbeciles like Megyn Kelly. His problem, like every midwit who thinks they're a genius, was going full bore ahead without ever stopping to think "maybe I'm wrong and this is a bad idea." 30 seconds on Twitter and anyone even slightly critical of Vivek starts searching her early life history, reads public stories about her abusive upbringing, and pulls up the public court records. Vivek Ramaswamy hired a woman to smear her own daughter. A woman so vile, she slept with a man after knowing he had raped not only her daughter, but his own as well. A woman who probably helped him escape custody after a grand jury indicted him for incestuous rape of a child so he could die of natural causes in her loving arms.