Trump endorses Dr. Oz in key Senate race

[JoeOtterbein]

Politico

The celebrity TV doctor aggressively pursued Trump’s backing in the Pennsylvania primary.

By HOLLY OTTERBEIN and NATALIE ALLISON

04/09/2022 06:44 PM EDT

Updated: 04/09/2022 08:10 PM EDT

Dr. Mehmet Oz has won the race for Donald Trump’s coveted endorsement in Pennsylvania’s Senate GOP primary.

In a key contest in the battle for the Senate majority this fall, the former president announced Saturday that he is backing Oz, praising the celebrity television doctor in a statement as “Pro-Life, very strong on Crime, the Border, Election Fraud, our Great Military, and our Vets, Tax Cuts, and will always fight for and support our under-siege Second Amendment.”

POLITICO previously reported that he had been leaning toward Oz, according to three people familiar with Trump’s thinking, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Trump recently met with both Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick in Mar-a-Lago and talked with multiple people about the GOP primary.

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[dalton99a]

1. That's it. Dr. Oz wins

[JoeOtterbein]

3. Then in November...

...John Fetterman is our next Senator from PA!

[Polybius]

8. Not if his primary opponents don't stop picking on him

They're feening on a story from 10 years ago.

[Walleye]

9. One thing worries me about Fetterman. If he says he's a socialist. That's how we lose elections

[JoeOtterbein]

16. That is a lie. Fetterman has NEVER said he is a socialist. Here is a quote from Elizabeth Warren:

Politico

“I saw the PAC ad that is currently running in Pennsylvania. It is wrong and it is disgusting. And if Conor Lamb wants to stand up as a Democrat, then he needs to disavow that ad today,” Warren said in an interview on Wednesday.

[Rebl2]

11. Oz

practices quackery. I will never understand Oprah ever backing people like oz, or fake dr phil.

[dflprincess]

13. What I don't get about him is that he apparently wasn't always a quack

He was a skilled heart surgeon & a professor at the Columbia University medical school.

I guess the quick buck selling snake oil was just too hard to pass up.

[Rebl2]

20. You are

exactly right. Had to come up with a gimmick to get on tv, so being a quack was the ticket I guess.

[riversedge]

2. No news in this announcement.

[underpants]

4. Well give it to Trump to be short....or that's all the time he spent on this.

Since, short, pandering and self promoting little bit of word garbage.

“Pro-Life, very strong on Crime, the Border, Election Fraud, our Great Military, and our Vets, Tax Cuts, and will always fight for and support our under-siege Second Amendment.”

[bottomofthehill]

5. Forgot the part about him being a duel citizen

So when he is active in the next attempted coup, he has a place to escape to.

[walkingman]

6. OZ...Phil...Oprah...Trump....an assorted group of ne'er do wells.

[dchill]

7. What a feather for one's dunce cap.

Either way you go.

[Efilroft Sul]

10. "Pay no attention to the orange man behind the curtain!"

[dflprincess]

12. One fraud endorsing another

or birds of a feather.

[Blue Owl]

14. Tell me again, what happens to everything tRump touches?

[keithbvadu2]

15. Oz is a Muslim who refuses to give up his Turkish (dual) citizenship.

Oz is a Muslim who refuses to give up his Turkish (dual) citizenship.

He cannot qualify for some top security clearances so he could not fully serve his supposed constituents.

[JoeOtterbein]

17. Being Muslim or Turkish is not a problem for me....

...Being a Republicant is!

[Totally Tunsie]

18. Members of Congress are not required to have security clearances.

https://rollcall.com/2021/01/12/when-it-comes-to-security-clearances-rules-for-others-dont-apply-to-congress/

Unlike officials at federal agencies, lawmakers do not have security clearances per se, experts said. Rather, members of Congress are by tradition deemed inherently trustworthy by dint of the offices they hold, although they are subject to punishment under the House ethics code for revealing classified information. The maximum penalty, which would require a two-thirds vote by the House, is expulsion.

https://news.clearancejobs.com/2012/05/16/do-members-of-congress-have-security-clearances/

With increased congressional oversight of sensitive national security issues – and more scrutiny on both the issues and need for access – the congressional security clearance procedures have come under scrutiny in recent years. An August 2011 CRS report proposed mandating security clearances for all members of congress. Despite several proposals and wrangling on both the legislative and executive sides (due to accusations of leaked information coming from both branches), requirements for members of congress or elected officials to obtain security clearances have never been passed.[/div

[jmowreader]

19. The debate should be entertaining

All the questions to either Fetterman or Lamb will be about policy positions; all the questions to America's Quack will be about his fucked-up medical stances. "Dr. Oz, do you still support the use of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 after the very long trail of bodies it's left behind it? What about green coffee extract and raspberry ketones?"