Jon Ossoff
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Georgia speaking at his Athens campaign rally and posting the passage on his verified account.
Statement summary
Ossoff calls for lab inspections, bioterrorism preparedness, congressional legislation and an international AI treaty, and argues that Trump's conflicts make him unable to lead that response.
“A capable president would move swiftly to secure and reassure the American people, rush inspectors into frontier labs, fortify the nation against bioterrorism, demand legislation from Congress, and lead the world toward an AI treaty. But President Trump is compromised.”
Video of Jon Ossoff’s September 13 Athens rally speech on his verified YouTube channel. At 33:21–34:31, Ossoff cites Trump-family business interests as the basis for his conflict-of-interest allegation, proposes lab inspections, bioterrorism preparedness, legislation and an international AI treaty, and urges congressional investigation and testimony. The allegations are attributed to Ossoff.
Why we used this label
Ossoff criticizes the president's failure to protect the public and calls for federal inspections, preparedness, legislation and an international treaty. His support for those remedies is a criticism of the present approach.