Today in Yerevan, Armenian Foreign Minister @AraratMirzoyan and I announced a bilateral framework agreement on the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) and signed a Strategic Partnership Charter and MOU on Critical Minerals, furthering the goals established during @POTUS’s historic peace summit between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We also discussed the peace process and Armenia’s upcoming elections.
Countries mentioned in the Bible:
Armenia 🇦🇲
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Romania 🇷🇴
Croatia 🇭🇷
Cyprus 🇨🇾
Egypt 🇪🇬
Spain 🇪🇸
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
France 🇫🇷
Greece 🇬🇷
India 🇮🇳
Iran 🇮🇷
Iraq 🇮🇶
Israel 🇮🇱
Italy 🇮🇹
Jordan 🇯🇴
Lebanon 🇱🇧
Libya 🇱🇾
North Macedonia 🇲🇰
Malta 🇲🇹
Palestine 🇵🇸
Syria 🇸🇾
Sudan 🇸🇩
South Sudan 🇸🇸
Türkiye 🇹🇷
Note: Israel and Palestine are the most mentioned places in the Bible. Saudi Arabia, including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, UAE. Croatia, including Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ethiopia, including Eritrea, Djibouti, Yemen. India, including part of the former Pakistan. France mentioned in the Deuterocanonical Books.
Dr. Oz’s demonization of Armenian Americans and targeting of their small businesses is racist and must end. Attacking fraud does not require bigoted attacks on an entire community.
California’s Armenian American community is an indispensable part of the fabric of our Golden state. After representing the largest community of Armenian Americans anywhere in the country in the House for more than two decades, I have seen firsthand the many countless contributions Armenian Americans have made to our country. I condemn this reckless demonization of an entire community by Dr. Oz, which has already seen businesses suffer through bigoted attacks on their operations.
I welcome any serious effort to combat waste, fraud and abuse — and there is plenty to be found amidst the billions being thrown at ICE and CBP right now. But instead of tackling the challenges Americans are actually facing, including access to affordable health care, or addressing fraud in a constructive and serious fashion, Dr. Oz is baselessly targeting an entire community with indiscriminate and unsubstantiated claims. He is painting his accusations with a brush laden with racist historical tropes and stereotypes, making it clear there is no limit to this Administration’s appetite for distortion of the facts in service of a hateful agenda. We all support rooting out fraud — but the rule of law requires that it be based on evidence, not language, culture, or ethnicity. These attacks must end.
In the coming weeks, I will work with my federal and state partners to conduct oversight and an independent review of this illegal racial profiling of Californians, and I will continue to stand with them against these attacks. I will not tolerate Dr. Oz or any other member of the Administration targeting our communities or taking steps to prevent or limit access to health care for Californians.
My office is filing a civil rights complaint seeking an investigation into Dr. Oz's baseless and racist allegations against Armenian Americans in California.
DISGUSTING: A local Armenian American bakery tells @ABC7 its business dropped 30% after Dr. Mehmet Oz falsely tied it to the Armenian mob.
Real people get hurt when powerful people spread garbage!
Kinda dopey to point to a business sign that reads “fresh lavash” (Armenian bread) and claim said business is part of a “mafia-gang deal” with no evidence.
I’m familiar with that establishment. It’s an Armenian bakery…not a fake hospice.
Oz of all people should know where to find the fraudsters. 😉
Our office is reviewing reports that Dr. Mehmet Oz targeted the Armenian American community in Southern California recently — making racially charged claims of fraud outside Armenian-owned businesses, including a popular bakery.
Given the historic sensitivities involved, we are taking these allegations seriously.
Any and all acts of hate have no place in California.
🚨 Terrifying scenes from Iran
More videos are slowly coming out of Iran, thanks to Starlink, as the internet shutdown continues.
The country is a war zone.
من اولین فراخوان خود را امروز با شما در میان میگذارم و از شما دعوت میکنم که این پنجشنبه و جمعه، ۱۸ و ۱۹ دیماه، همزمان سر ساعت ۸ شب، همگی چه در خیابانها یا حتی از منازل خودتان شروع به سردادن شعار کنید. درنتیجه بازخورد این حرکت، من فراخوانهای بعدی را به شما اعلام خواهم کرد.