Trump Pulls Surgeon General Nominee After Laura Loomer Calls for Fox Alum’s Head
Laura Loomer walks as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump visits the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
President Donald Trump resolved to withdraw his nomination of former Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat to serve as his surgeon general on Wednesday after far-right activist Laura Loomer called for just that in a series of social media attacks earlier this week.
“The White House is said to be pulling its nomination of Janette Nesheiwat as Surgeon General, per sources,” reported Bloomberg’s Josh Wingrove and Madison Muller on Wednesday afternoon.
In a social media post on Sunday afternoon, Loomer blasted Nesheiwat, whom she identified as “the sister-in-law of former National Security Council Advisor Michael Waltz,” and argued that a malpractice suit against the then-nominee, “promotion of DEI-focused initiatives implemented through City M.D., and her advocacy for the China Virus ‘vaccine’ as recently as November 2024 (despite evidence that it causes severe health risks and doesn’t prevent the spread of COVID) render her unfit for the role of United States Surgeon General.”
In a subsequent post, Loomer wrote the following:
We really need a new nominee for US Surgeon General.
I know @realDonaldTrump 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. She is now being accused of lying about her medical credentials.
In a screenshot below, @DoctorJanette said “Vaccine hesitancy is a Global health threat.”
She used her access to Fox News to promote the dangerous Covid vaccine, which is now killing millions of people. She tried to shame people who didn’t take the vaccine by calling them global health threats.
Vaccines are a matter of PERSONAL HEALTH FREEDOM. “Vaccine hesitancy” is a matter of PERSONAL FREEDOM AND LIBERTY!
It is not a Global Health Threat.
MY BODY MY CHOICE!
I genuinely wish we had a different nominee that was more aligned with personal liberties.
Vaccines Cause Autism. Even Donald Trump knows this. That’s why he has directed his new admin and his HHS secretary @RobertKennedyJr to INVESTIGATE the link between vaccines and autism.
@DoctorJanette thinks “vaccine hesitancy” is a GLOBAL HEALTH THREAT.
By her own logic, President Donald Trump and @RobertKennedyJr
are GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS because they are challenging the safety of childhood vaccines.@DoctorJanette is not ideologically aligned with Donald Trump or his admin’s health initiatives. The DOD is now giving back pay to armed service members who were let go because they didn’t take the COVID JAB. They are now rightfully receiving back pay reparations for wrongful termination over their refusal to take an experimental DNA modifier. According to @DoctorJanette, these service members are GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS.
How can she be confirmed in front of the US Senate on Thursday?
She can’t. We need a new nominee for US Surgeon General!
On Monday, Loomer speculated that she may have succeeded in her aim, observing that “As of this morning, @DoctorJanette Dr. Janette Nesheiwat no longer has “nominee for US Surgeon General” in her X bio. It was there before. Perhaps she’s out! Her Senate confirmation hearing was supposed to take place this Thursday.”
While it is unclear whether or not Loomer’s advocacy influenced Trump’s decision, the president purged much of his national security team last month after Loomer — who has hawked 9/11 conspiracy theories, celebrated the drowning deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, and called herself a white nationalist — showed up in the Oval Office and called for heads to roll.
