Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff continues to take advantage of Fox News to create viral moments instantly on the campaign trail.
With just a few days to go before the Jan. 5 election against Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), Ossoff was again approached Thursday by Fox News journalist Peter Doocy during a live Fox broadcast.
Although Ossoff used Wednesday’s impromptu interview to lure Fox News viewers and slap Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who is running a separate Georgia race, this time in the Senate, from At the age of 33, he pushed back the conservative narrative that he was on the lookout for the Chinese Communist Party.
Noting that Ossoff modified his financial disclosure in July to list the additional payments his investigative film company received (which included a $ 1,000 payment from a Hong Kong television channel), Doocy pressured Ossoff why the transaction was not included in the initial disclosure.
“Why did you wait until after primary to reveal that your business was doing business with the Hong Kong company that was linked to the Chinese government?” Doocy asked, echoing Perdue’s accusation that Ossoff was “paid for by the Chinese communist government through a media company.”
Meanwhile, Ossoff noted that “the whole substance of Senator Perdue’s campaign” against him is that a Hong Kong television channel licensed a documentary about his company’s ISIS war criminals. He then highlighted Perdue’s business history, which featured wealthy executives outsourcing jobs in China and helping build factories in China.
Doocy returned to the amended financial information, asking Ossoff why he waited until after elementary to update his forms. The young Democratic candidate, however, answered the question because Perdue is trying to “make a big deal.”
The Fox reporter went another route with his question, citing the recent revelation that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was informed by the FBI in 2015 that an alleged Chinese spy had accessed it. The congressman severed ties with the woman after the FBI briefing and has not been charged with misdemeanors.
“We recently saw the Chinese government try to raid a young Democratic lawmaker Eric Swalwell. Are you worried that by making a payment to a well-known young Democrat, someone linked to China or the Chinese through another company might try to influence you? ”.
“Come on, man! You’re a serious reporter, “Ossoff said. “Do you really think a Hong Kong TV channel broadcasting an investigation my company produced into ISIS war crimes in Iraq is what you’re implicating or what David Perdue is implicating?”
After Doocy wondered aloud if Ossoff did not believe the Chinese government was trying to influence young politicians, the Democratic candidate returned the question to Perdue.
“Chinese intelligence operations in the United States are a serious threat to our national security,” he said. “And that’s why it’s so worrying that we have a senator like David Perdue.”
“Senator David Perdue boasted of swearing how he spent most of his career outsourcing American jobs in China,” he concluded. “It operated factories in Shenzhen Province, China, in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party and should explain this in the record.”