President Trump has pulled his nomination of Janette Nesheiwat to be U.S. surgeon common and has as a substitute chosen persistent illness entrepreneur Casey Means, a doctor with shut ties to the “Make American Healthy Again,” or MAHA, motion, as his new choose to fill the position.
Nesheiwat’s credentials got here into query final month when CBS Information reported that information confirmed she had graduated from the American College of the Caribbean College of Medication, and never the College of Arkansas College of Medication, as had been mentioned when her nomination was introduced.
The doctor and former Fox Information contributor additionally obtained on the mistaken facet of influential Trump supporters together with MAGA influencer Laura Loomer.
The Senate Committee on Well being, Schooling, Labor and Pensions was scheduled to carry a listening to Thursday on Nesheiwat’s affirmation.
Means, a graduate of Stanford Medical College, is the sister of Calley Means, a detailed ally to Well being and Human Companies (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a particular authorities worker at HHS. They’re each high-profile proponents of Kennedy’s MAHA agenda.
“I am pleased to announce that Dr. Casey Means, will be nominated as our next Surgeon General of the United States of America. Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans,” Trump wrote on Fact Social.
“Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” he added. “Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History. Congratulations to Casey!”
Trump wrote Nesheiwat would work in “another capacity at HHS.”
Casey Means is the co-founder of Ranges, a well being know-how firm that focuses on monitoring well being info by way of units like steady glucose displays.
In a submit on the social platform X, Calley Means wrote of his sister’s nomination, “I am so proud of her and know she will help the President and @SecKennedy change the world.”
He additionally reposted Casey Means’s interview with Joe Rogan during which she spoke in regards to the prevalence of circumstances like autism, diabetes, Alzheimer’s illness and cancers amongst People.
In that interview, she claimed these circumstances have been all attributable to “metabolic dysfunction,” saying the reply was “obvious.”