President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to be the next Surgeon General of the United States; see President Trump Nominates New Surgeon General. The Surgeon General’s role is mainly that of national cheerleader on health issues, in addition to commanding the 6,000-member Commissioned Corps or the US Public Health Service. While Nesheiwat has ample credentials to serve as Surgeon General — she is a board-certified physician in family medicine, and her experience as a FoxNews medical contributor shows she can handle herself in the spotlight — her performance during the COVID scare calls into question her independence from the medical establishment and her faithfulness to basic constitutional principles.
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Nesheiwat is a pro-abort. She’s not merely a “let the states sort it out” like Trump, and like me; for the most part, she is a pro-abort who spreads pro-abort propaganda.
During COVID, she uncritically repeated all the bad advice we were given long after it was obvious it was wrong.
She seemed fixated on targeting Florida’s response, which turned out to be the most successful response to COVID by a major state.
Here she goes after a national hero, Florida’s Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo.
She praised social media platforms for censoring COVID information.
The chef’s kiss is this post by Dr. Peter Hotez. Hotez believed everything that turned out to be wrong about the COVID response and was a major advocate of vaccinating everyone.
Hotez thinks HHS Secretary-nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., deals in “misinformation.” Either he is playing some sort of three-cushion bank shot and hoping that his praise will scuttle Nesheiwat, or he’s legitimately supporting her because he thinks she can fight Kennedy’s agenda on the public health side.
Either Nesheiwat mouthed the public health messages she did during COVID without believing them because she feared for her job, or she believed what she was saying. She’s either deficient in character or intelligence. Either way, there are many more eminently qualified doctors to be Surgeon General, even if their sister is not married to Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Waltz.
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If Trump does not withdraw her nomination, the Senate must reject her.