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Touring Van Nuys, Oz casually told reporters, “There’s roughly $3.5 billion of fraud taking place here in Los Angeles, in hospice and home care. It’s run, quite a bit of it, by the Russian Armenian mafia, you notice the lettering and language behind me.” Oz then gestured to the Armenian-language signage behind him, including one advertising a family bakery.

Armenian Americans pressed hard for Oz to address the Armenian genocide question on the campaign trail. All they got were meaningless statements from Oz saying that he “opposed genocide” and that “the evils of World War I should be commemorated.” These are the kinds of euphemisms and verbal gymnastics the Turkish government has long used to deflect attention from its crimes.

Oz was also pressured to explain his questionable ties to Turkey and why he served in the Turkish military and voted in the 2018 Turkish presidential election but not the 2018 American elections. Oz also met and dined with Turkey’s autocratic leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on multiple occasions and has never fully answered questions about his relationship with that regime.

When someone has actively participated in the denial of historical atrocities against a people and now acts as a gatekeeper of law and order against that same group, questions of retaliation arise.