Fraud Endorses Quack (Perfect headline from Rolling Stone)
Mehmet Oz spent years on television making questionable claims while promoting his own brand. Donald Trump liked what he saw.
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Fraud Endorses Quack
Donald Trump endorsed former TV huckster and current Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz.
9:01 AM · Apr 10, 2022
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-endorsement-mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-senate-1335478/
Former reality TV star and former president Donald Trump endorsed former TV huckster Dr. Mehmet Oz in a statement on Saturday. Oz is running as a Republican for a Pennsylvania Senate seat.
“I have known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show,” Trump said in the statement, adding, “He has lived with us through the screen and has always been popular, respected and smart.” Trump also praised Oz’s popularity with women. Women “are drawn to Dr. Oz for his advice and counsel,” said Trump, who has been credibly accused of assault by multiple women and bragged on tape about serially groping women.
Oz and Trump have a history. During the 2016 race, Oz invited Trump to his show where the then-candidate shared a letter about his health signed by Dr. Howard Bornstein, a gastroenterologist who later admitted that Trump “dictated that whole letter” to him. “I didn’t write that letter. I just made it up as I went along,” Bornstein said. Trump never released his full medical records. And a few weeks after Trump entered office, Bornstein said that Trump’s bodyguard and a Trump Organization lawyer “raided” the doctor’s office, leaving with Trump’s records.
But Oz accepted at face value the letter Trump showed him and later said on the Today show that the information he saw “indicate[d] that [Trump] is healthy enough to be president.”
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