ANCA values five high-ranking pro-Armenian figures in Trump’s government: Aram Hamparian

Tulsi Gabbard, as a Democratic member of the U.S. House, had an A-plus rating from the ANCA, and that’s hard to earn, ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian told Alpha News.

“You have to earn that rating partially by actually traveling to Artsakh. She’s one of a handful, just a small number of U.S. legislators who actually went and visited Artsakh on the ground, reported back to her colleagues about the challenges faced by the Armenians there.

Now we have Vivek Ramaswamy, who from the very first days of his candidacy, I think even predating his candidacy, was extremely vocal in support of Armenia, and especially, and this is a really important point, in pointing out the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy.

He looked at a lot of U.S. intervention abroad and saw that the justification for this intervention, even when it was very violent and very destructive, was some notion of we’re aligning with democracies against tyrannies, and he pointed out the Armenian case and said, if it is in fact that we’re on the side of democracies, why are we arming Azerbaijan? Why are we aligning with Azerbaijan? Why are we enabling the genocide that they committed against the people of Artsakh, and in turn abandoning the people of Artsakh? And he made a really sharp point on that issue. He did it on Tucker Carlson. He did it on Piers Morgan.

Number three is RFK Jr. His family has been supportive of Armenian issues going back basically two or three generations, going back to the 1950s and 60s.

The family has been solidly supportive of the Armenians, you know, up in Watertown and eastern Massachusetts, but also in Rhode Island and elsewhere. He has staked out very strong pro-Armenian positions.

The fourth is the incoming Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who also has an A-plus rating. So, he will enter the seventh floor of the U.S. Department of State, I think, as the most pro-Armenian designee, nominee in the history of our country.

The fifth is a family member of President Trump, Massad Boulos, who is a Maronite with roots in Lebanon, who is related, he’s the father-in-law of the President’s daughter.

And he made a very special effort during the campaign to speak to Middle Eastern constituencies. That includes Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, Chaldean Americans, and Armenian Americans. And then a whole range of others.

People who, I think, looked at U.S. foreign policy, found it wanting in many ways. In fact, many groups that were outraged. And he said that it need not be that way,” Hamparian said.