In October 2017, when answering a question about the decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship, he cited "a legacy of bad feeling about the rule of law" as a result of his family having been "viciously persecuted" by U.S. authorities in the 1950s.
2017年10月，在回答有关放弃美国国籍的决定的问题时，他引用了「法治不良情绪的遗留问题」，因为他的家庭在1950年代遭到美国当局的「恶意迫害」。