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Pompeo Raises ‘National Security Concerns’ About Trump-Backed Dr. Oz
DAILYCALLER.COM ^ | 5/6/2022 | SEBASTIAN HUGHES

Posted on 05/06/2022 10:35:37 AM PDT by bitt

FFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke Friday on the “national security concerns” he had about Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz.

“[Dr. Oz] engaged in the Turkish political process. That raises, in my mind, lots of judgments about his priorities,” Pompeo said in a phone call to reporters. (RELATED: Dr. Oz’s Work For Turkish Airlines May Violate Federal Lobbying Law, Advocacy Group Claims)

Oz maintains Turkish citizenship and cast a ballot in the country’s 2018 presidential election, ABC News reported. He had previously said he has “never been politically involved in Turkey in any capacity.”

Pompeo, who is backing David McCormick, former U.S. under secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs and CEO of Bridgewater Associates, said his reservations with Oz were “separate and apart from politics.”

“These are pathetic and xenophobic attacks on Dr. Oz by David McCormick, who should be ashamed of himself. Now that he lost President Trump’s endorsement, he’s resorted to sad and desperate attacks that are no different than the tropes used against Catholics and Jews,” Brittany Yanick, an Oz campaign spokesperson, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.

“Dr. Oz has already said when elected to the Senate he would renounce his citizenship. There is no security issue whatsoever, and David McCormick knows that Dr. Oz has maintained his dual citizenship to make it easier to help care for his mother who has Alzheimer’s and lives there,” she said.

Mike Pompeo, on a call with reporters organized by the McCormick campaign, cited ABC News’ reporting: “[Dr. Oz] engaged in the Turkish political process. That raises, in my mind, lots of judgments about his priorities.”

— Lucien Bruggeman (@lcbruggeman) May 6, 2022

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: droz; nationalsecurity; pompeo; trumppickoz; trumpsguyoz
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1 posted on 05/06/2022 10:35:37 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/06/2022 10:35:50 AM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: bitt

Good Call.


3 posted on 05/06/2022 10:36:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bitt
Dr. Oz has already said when elected to the Senate he would renounce his citizenship.

So he's going to keep that Turkish citizen unless he gets elected? Doesn't exactly inspire confidence....

4 posted on 05/06/2022 10:37:53 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin (Sounds like a lot of malarkey to bewhat is this )
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To: bitt

Oz can piss up a rope.


5 posted on 05/06/2022 10:38:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Yep, why wait?


6 posted on 05/06/2022 10:39:01 AM PDT by Pollard (Don't ask if there's a conspiracy. If you're not in one, you need to start one. CA Fitts)
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To: bitt

A Turkish muslim who lives in NJ is not what PA needs to represent them in the Senate.

Pompeo did nothing to clean up the national security concerns that the CIA poses when he was Director.

Same with the State Dept. when he was SOS.


7 posted on 05/06/2022 10:39:11 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Mrs. Oz’s family’s company:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/asplundh-tree-experts-co-pays-largest-civil-settlement-agreement-ever-levied-ice


8 posted on 05/06/2022 10:41:13 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Paladin2

Good call for China Dave? I am for Barnette.


9 posted on 05/06/2022 10:42:24 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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Pompeo is running? Worst kept secret ever.


10 posted on 05/06/2022 10:42:24 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Why would he hurt his future prospects?


11 posted on 05/06/2022 10:42:59 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: bitt

Dr. Turkey is an Oz-ball, that’s for sure.


12 posted on 05/06/2022 10:43:02 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: bitt

My concern is whether “Mehmet” is a nickname for “Mohammed”.


13 posted on 05/06/2022 10:44:32 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: EEGator

Thanks, did not know about that.


14 posted on 05/06/2022 10:44:40 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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“no different than the tropes used against Catholics and Jews,”

I love this: Vote for the Turkish Muslim, or you’re an anti-Semite.


15 posted on 05/06/2022 10:45:24 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: proust

Pompeo is wising Trump up...Will he listen?? I think so.


16 posted on 05/06/2022 10:45:33 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: lightman

Pretty sure it’s the Turkish equivalent.


17 posted on 05/06/2022 10:45:50 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bitt

Mike Pompeo and the Globalists IMHO.

McCormick supposed Jeb Bush for POTUS in 2016 so his allegiance stands out loud and clear.

For the record I am voting Kathy Barnette but am not carrying water for David McCormick like those throwing the slime on Dr. Oz.


18 posted on 05/06/2022 10:46:54 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Sacajaweau

Pompeo is trying to elect Uniparty McCormick.


19 posted on 05/06/2022 10:47:10 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Pompeo is a good guy. You're just shooting your mouth off.

Please tell us what he was supposed to do...and HOW he was supposed to do it....and who he was supposed to do it to.

20 posted on 05/06/2022 10:48:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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