The previous White Home physician who raved about Donald Trump’s “excellent” well being to a skeptical public is now claiming that the disturbing new COVID-19 variant omicron is nothing however a midterm election ploy by the Democrats.
Dr. Ronny Jackson, now a Republican MAGA congressman from Texas, scoffed on the variant the World Well being Group has deemed “highly transmissible” and “concerning.”
“Here comes the … Midterm Election Variant!” Jackson quipped in a tweet Saturday, calling it nothing greater than a trick to “push unsolicited nationwide mail-in ballots.”
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medication and surgical procedure at George Washington College, lashed Jackson on CNN Sunday for dangerously spreading outrageous misinformation about COVID-19.
He blamed individuals like Jackson as the rationale 50 million individuals have but to be vaccinated in America, and other people proceed to die.
The persevering with COVID toll is because of “people like Ronny Jackson, people who doubt the severity of this pandemic, people who have doubted the consequences of not getting vaccinated, people who have doubted the efficacy of masks,” Reiner instructed Jim Acosta.
“So now as a new potentially dangerous variant is identified, you see this anti-science coming from a former doctor. I call him ‘former doctor’ because that’s how he behaves.”
Acosta known as Jackson an “embarrassment.”
Misinformation from Jackson isn’t an enormous shock. He gushed about Trump’s “excellent” health after the then-president’s bodily in 2018, regardless of Trump’s additional kilos, well-known high-fat food regimen and golf-cart golf for his solely train. There have been additionally considerations about his mental acuity
Jackson additionally listed Trump’s top at 6-foot-3 and weight at stunning 239 kilos, although many weren’t shopping for it, particularly for the reason that stats put Trump just below the brink for overweight.
Requested how he may reconcile Trump’s well being habits and look with a willpower that his well being is “excellent,” the fervent Trump supporter chalked it up to “genetics.” That’s “the way God made him,” mentioned Jackson.
Try Acosta and Reiner’s feedback about Jackson within the CNN video clip above.
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