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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Good Call.
So he's going to keep that Turkish citizen unless he gets elected? Doesn't exactly inspire confidence....
Oz can piss up a rope.
Yep, why wait?
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.
Mrs. Oz’s family’s company:
Good call for China Dave? I am for Barnette.
Pompeo is running? Worst kept secret ever.
Why would he hurt his future prospects?
Dr. Turkey is an Oz-ball, that’s for sure.
My concern is whether “Mehmet” is a nickname for “Mohammed”.
Thanks, did not know about that.
“no different than the tropes used against Catholics and Jews,”
I love this: Vote for the Turkish Muslim, or you’re an anti-Semite.
Pompeo is wising Trump up...Will he listen?? I think so.
Pretty sure it’s the Turkish equivalent.
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.
Pompeo is trying to elect Uniparty McCormick.
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.
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