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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Laura Loomer Sets to Work on New MAGA Civil War Over Trump Pick
President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general is taking fire from all sides. Days after it was revealed that Janette Nesheiwat earned her M.D. from the American University of the Caribbean—and not the University of Arkansas, as she had long claimed—MAGA conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer has called for Trump to pick a new, anti-vaxxer nominee. Nesheiwat, who served as the medical director of a for-profit chain of urgent-care centers in New York, joined Fox News as a medical contributor during the COVID-19 pandemic and has given on-air interviews for other networks. Her Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for Thursday. 'I know @realDonald Trump likes people who go on TV for some weird reason I will never understand (I still love him), but we can't have a pro-COVID vaccine nepo appointee who is currently embroiled in a medical malpractice case and who didn't go to medical school in the US as the US Surgeon General.' Loomer wrote in a post on X. 'She is now being accused of lying about her credentials.' The post came just days after the 31-year-old 9/11 truther celebrated the ouster of Nesheiwat's brother-in-law, Trump's former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and took credit for the firing. The president has also fired Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh, who was head of U.S. Cyber Command, after Loomer launched a loyalty purge last month. Later Monday morning, Loomer noted in a follow-up post that Nesheiwat's social media bio on the site X no longer said 'nominee for US surgeon general.' 'Interesting,' Loomer wrote. 'Perhaps she is out!' The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment. During her TV interviews, Nesheiwat was often introduced as a double board-certified physician in family and emergency medicine. She has often said her father's tragic death from a freak shooting accident when she was 13 inspired her to go into medicine. But according to Anthony Clark, the independent journalist who broke the story about her medical degree and credentials, she was only board certified in family medicine, not emergency medicine. Nesheiwat herself has described urgent care as different from emergency medicine in that urgent-care doctors only treat non-life-threatening medical problems. After her nomination for surgeon general, she quietly removed her specialization in 'ER medicine' from her website, Clark reported, and sometime after CBS reported on her medical degree on April 29, she changed her LinkedIn profile to reflect her real alma mater. But it's the part of her biography that's true—the fact that she worked on the front lines treating thousands of patients in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic—that Loomer really takes issue with. During the pandemic, Nesheiwat described vaccine hesitancy as a 'global health threat' and encouraged viewers to get vaccinated. 'She used her access to Fox News to promote the dangerous Covid vaccine, which is now killing millions of people,' Loomer wrote. A 2022 study of the side effects of the 8 billion COVID-19 jabs administered worldwide found that just 55 people had died after being vaccinated. Of those deaths, 38 were found to have possibly been related to vaccine side effects, and even then, more research was needed to determine whether there was a causal relationship, according to the National Library of Medicine. Loomer then repeated the conspiracy theory that vaccines cause autism and accused Nesheiwat of 'not being ideologically aligned with Donald Trump or his admin's health initiatives.' She wrote: 'By her own logic, President Donald Trump and [Health and Human Services Secretary] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS because they are challenging the safety of childhood vaccines,' which yes, fair point. Since taking the helm at HHS, Kennedy—a longtime crusader against vaccines—has appointed a vaccine skeptic to investigate the debunked link between vaccination and autism, forced out the nation's top vaccine regulator, and promoted unhinged conspiracy theories about the MMR vaccine containing 'fetus debris.' 'I genuinely wish we had a different nominee that was more aligned with personal liberties,' Loomer wrote.
Time of India
06-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
MAGA divided again: Trump's surgeon general nominee Janette Nesheiwat faces backlash led by Laura Loomer
Laura Loomer has reignited internal MAGA tensions by publicly opposing President Trump's pick for US Surgeon General, Dr Janette Nesheiwat , and vowing a new 'civil war' within the movement. Loomer's criticism centres on questions about Nesheiwat's credentials, her pro-vaccine stance during the COVID-19 pandemic and her perceived lack of loyalty to the 'America First' first attacked Nesheiwat on X, insisting 'we really need a new nominee for US Surgeon General' because Nesheiwat 'didn't go to medical school in the US' and is 'embroiled in a medical malpractice case' . Reporting by CBS News confirmed that Nesheiwat earned her MD at the American University of the Caribbean, not at the University of Arkansas as previously claimed, and is board-certified solely in family medicine, not emergency medicine . Loomer seized on this to accuse Nesheiwat of misrepresentation, arguing that a nominee with such discrepancies cannot be trusted with national health policy .Beyond credentials, Loomer attacked Nesheiwat's past on-air advocacy for COVID-19 vaccines. In 2021, Nesheiwat described vaccine hesitancy as a 'global health threat' on Fox News, urging widespread uptake to curb the pandemic . Loomer countered that vaccines are a matter of 'personal freedom and liberty,' decrying any 'jab mandate' and invoking the debunked claim linking vaccines to autism—a point directly contradicted by scientific consensus and multiple studies finding serious adverse events to be exceedingly rare .Hours after Loomer's initial posts, Nesheiwat's X bio quietly dropped the 'nominee for US Surgeon General' tag, prompting Loomer to crow, 'Interesting. Perhaps she's out!' . Despite this, the Senate Health Committee confirmed the hearing remains scheduled for Thursday, with no formal indication of withdrawal .This campaign marks the latest in a series of Loomer-led skirmishes that have shaken Trump's inner circle. In April, she celebrated the removal of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz after accusing him of failing MAGA loyalty tests—a bout of 'Signalgate' that pitted hard-liners against more pragmatic figures . She similarly targeted Gen Timothy Haugh, former head of US Cyber Command, and several National Security Council aides, branding them insufficiently 'pure' .Another instance of Loomer breaking the MAGA ranks was last year, over Trump's Senior AI Advisor, Sriram Krishnan, which divided tech-oriented libertarians and ultra-nationalists over immigration reform and 'globalist' influence in the administration . That confrontation, dubbed the first MAGA civil war , revealed deep ideological fissures that persist in Loomer's latest push against of Nesheiwat emphasise her front-line pandemic experience in New York City, where she treated thousands of patients and contributed to public-health outreach . They argue that her scientific background and media savviness make her well-suited to articulate health policy, especially given her expertise in family medicine . Opponents, led by Loomer, insist that any association with mainstream health messaging or vaccine advocacy renders a nominee unacceptable.
