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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRubio calls Biden bank watchdog pick a 'communist'
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Friday claimed a Soviet-born Biden nominee whose family was nearly eviscerated by Josef Stalin was a communist unfit to serve in the federal government. In a Friday tweet, Rubio accused Saule Omarova, who Biden nominated to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and who has been a U.S. citizen since 2005, of being a communist.
Saule Omarova supports abolishing private bank accounts, using govt to bankrupt energy companies & creating a Soviet style National Investment Authority, tweeted Rubio, whose parents fled Cuba before the Fidel Castro seized control of the country in 1959.
She supports communist policies & a communist should not be our Comptroller of the Currency.
Omarova, a Cornell law professor born in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, served in the Treasury Department under former President George W. Bush. During her Thursday confirmation hearing, she described how she was raised by her grandmother, who was orphaned after her family was sent to Siberia amid Stalins purges of the professional class and ethnic minorities.
I grew up without knowing half of my family. My grandmother herself escaped death twice under the Stalin regime, Omarova said. This is what seared in my mind. That's who I am.
Omarova explained Thursday that her life in the oppressive Soviet Union reinforced to her the importance of academic and personal freedom.
Despite the brutal treatment her family faced under the Soviet regime, Republican lawmakers have accused Omarova of hiding communist sympathies and supporting a Soviet-style takeover of the U.S. financial system. Rubio's office did not respond to an email requesting comment, but his chief of staff, Michael Needham, insisted that Omarova "supports communist policies" in a tweet with no further explanation.
I dont know whether to call you professor or comrade,' Kennedy told Omarova during her Thursday confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/582355-rubio-smears-biden-bank-watchdog-pick-as-communist
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Rubio calls Biden bank watchdog pick a 'communist' (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Nov 2021
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underpants
(182,868 posts)1. That's them, out outrage each other. Hit talking points.
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)2. So say the Senators for oligarch and corporate welfare elites
That is rich indeed.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)3. It's Rubio who loves them "Russians"
rurallib
(62,441 posts)4. stealing ideas from dumb John Kennedy is about as low as it goes
Methinks Rubio is in serious trouble for reelection
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)5. Little Rubio can STFU.