On Thursday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) questioned Saule Omarova, President Biden’s nominee to be comptroller of currency, at a Senate hearing over her affiliation with a group called The Young Communists, and told her, “I don’t mean any disrespect; I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”
Kennedy asked Omarova, “You used to be a member of a group called The Young Communists, didn’t you?”
“Senator, are you referring to my membership in the youth communist organization while I was growing up in the Soviet Union?” Omarova responded.
“I just wanted to ask you that question,” Kennedy stated. “There was a group called The Young Communists, and you were a member, is that right?”
“I’m not exactly sure which group you are referring to,” Omarova replied.
“Well, the formal name of it is the Leninist Communist Young Union of the Russian Federation, and it’s also known as the Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation, and it’s commonly referred to as The Young Communists. Were you a member?” Kennedy asked.
Omarova answered, “Senator, I was born and grew up in the Soviet Union.”
“Yes, ma’am, but were you a member of that organization?” Kennedy persisted.
“Everybody in that country was a member of the Komsomol, which was the Communist Youth organization,” she replied, admitting that she did, in fact, know about the group.
After Omarova admitted that she was a member of the group and had never resigned, Kennedy launched into an attack on Omarova’s past far-left statements.
“I’ve spent a lot of time on your record, and here’s what I found,” Kennedy said. “This is America, you can believe what you want, but we can’t just let anybody be comptroller of the currency.”
“You wrote your thesis in college at Moscow State University; the title was, ‘Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and The Theory of Revolution in The Capital.’ But you won’t send Senator Toomey a copy,” Kennedy continued. “You studied at university, at Moscow State University, scientific communism, which is the science regarding the working class struggle and the socialist agenda. In 2019, not 30 years ago, in a Canadian documentary, you called the financial services industry ‘a quintessential ass**** industry.’ You wrote a paper called ‘Systemically Significant Prices’ calling for the federal government to set wages, food, gas prices.”
“In 2020, you wrote a paper called ‘The People’s Ledger,’ where you said we need to abolish bank accounts and make everybody set up an account at the Fed where the federal government will have access to your data,” Kennedy said. “In 2020, you wrote another paper called ‘The Climate Case for a national Investment Authority,’ where you said what we need to do to the oil and gas industry is have the federal government bankrupt them so we can tackle climate change. In 2019, you joined the Facebook group, a Marxist Facebook group, to discuss socialist and anti-capitalist views.”
“Now, that’s what I see from your record, and you have the right to believe every one of these things. You do; this is America,” Kennedy concluded, adding, “But I don’t mean any disrespect; I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”
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