Trump’s Endorsement of Dr. Oz Should Surprise No One Who Gets Trump – Opinion

Let’s begin with a couple of premises. Donald Trump is extremely careful about his endorsements. These endorsements are not about his political views but rather whether or not he thinks a possible endorsement will win. The most crucial qualification is undoubtedly the one that matters above all else: Donald Trump’s loyalty

Don’t misunderstand. You are correct.,A potential candidate for the presidency should support other candidates that he believes will support his or her policy and beliefs. This is obvious. However, loyalty to most politicians and Donald Trump’s loyalty are two very different things. Donald demands “complete and total” loyalty, without deviation, without question. Read more ThisThe reality of the moment.

Now, to the “disturbance in the Force,” at hand. As RedState reported Saturday evening, Trump raised eyebrows across the political spectrum with his “complete and total” endorsement of Dr. Mehmet Oz, just weeks before the contested Republican primary in Pennsylvania. Trump made the following statement in long statementPartially:

It is about winning elections to prevent the Radical Left maniacs destroying our country. By electing Dr. Mehmet Oz, the well-known and brilliant American Senator for America, the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania can save America.

Dr. Oz has been a friend of mine for many years. His life has been shared with us on the television screen. He is respected and popular and smart.

Trump went on to say he believes Oz will “be the one most able to win the general election,” and would perform well in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It is interesting to note that David McCormick was the former Under Secretary for U.S. Treasury. By a slim margin, for sure, but to declare “most able to win,” not so much. And who doesn’t know that the five words in politics Donald Trump most hates are “He did it without Trump.”

While this op-ed is less about Oz and more about Trump and his followers, the famous TV doc — some might say quack — most recently flip-flopped on abortion, suggesting in late 2021 he was “at peace” with the Supreme Court not overturning Roe v. Wade. Yahoo News noted that he had made the same mistake in a 2018 interview.

Oz recognized efforts to reverse the trend Roe as a misleading and possibly conspiratorial crusade. Not only was Oz supportive of abortion rights, he seemed puzzled that people would spend time fighting abortion rights—going so far as to say that, as a physician, he was “really worried” about the anti-abortion movement and that eliminating Roe would have negative effects on women’s health. [No mention about the health of dead, unborn children.]

Oz put on his “doctor hat”:

It’s, as a doctor—just putting my doctor hat on—it’s a big-time concern. It’s because I attended medical school in Philadelphia and saw many women with coat hanger events. This is referring to really horrific events that took place when women were younger. Roe V. Wade. Many were also harmed for their entire lives.

The bottom line is: Any honest conservativeHowever, Dr. Oz does not qualify as Nothing is conservative.

Perhaps we should check in with the geniuses of “The View” for their take last November, when Oz announced he would seek political office as a Republican. In a word, they were “baffled.” “He’s gone over to the dark side,” Joy Behar marveled. “Was he killed? What happened to him?!”

Nonetheless, in Donald’s eyes, Dr. Oz is “brilliant” and “well known” on TV, so there’s that.

So, let’s get back to that loyalty thing, for a minute. How many cabinet members and administration officials did Trump laud as “brilliant” and “the best” when he hired them, only to throw them as far under the bus as he could, and drop the dreaded “loser” label on them the nanosecond he unceremoniously showed them the door, often for slightest “betrayal”? (Rhetorical question.)

The most recent example is Alabama Republican Representative Mo Brooks. Brooks, the first member of Congress on January 6 to vote against certifying the 2020 presidential election, had his Trump endorsement withdrawn as he pursues the Republican nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Richard Shelby. Brooks’ sin? He told Trump — and said, publicly — there was no legal pathway to boot Biden from office and “reinstate” (another term misapplied) Trump as president.

The Trump intrigue does not stop.

A Sunday article entitled Was Donald Trump really just trying to build bridges with his base in the Dr. Oz Endorsement scandal?, my colleague Duke weighed in on what impact Trump’s endorsement of Oz might have on MAGA Country and its unwavering support of The Donald. While much of the current grousing is fierce — Duke is not among the grousers — including the following tweet from my old friend Kurt Schlichter, I believe Trump could endorse Ronald McDonald for Congress and not lose a voter. Remember Trump’s “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters” claim? Me, too.

And, yes, Trump’s claim was purposely hyperbolic to make a valid point: loyalty. Yet violate that loyalty by the slightest of transgressions, and you become a “loser” — if not a dreaded “RINO.” Both terms are used to dismiss “transgressors” and everything they say. It is funny to me, a Constitutional Conservative that has been called a RINO or worse.

Finally, I was also going to use as an example Trump’s recent “complete and total” endorsement of Sarah Palin to fill the seat left vacant by the death of longtime incumbent Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, but I figured I’ve already caused enough trouble. Now the question is: Who?

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