Dr. Mehmet Oz Asked To Resign From President’s Council, Brings Up Dr. Fauci Again

Anthony Fauci, MD, doesn’t serve on the President’s Council on Sports activities, Health & Diet. However Mehmet Oz, MD, nonetheless introduced up Fauci in response to the Biden Administration asking each him and Herschel Walker to resign from the Council.

Each Oz, who beforehand had hosted The Dr. Oz Present, and Walker, who was a star working again in school and the NFL, had grow to be Council members through the Trump Administration, being appointed by then-U.S. President Donald Trump. Now, each Oz and Walker are working for U.S. Senate seats as Republican Senate candidates in Pennsylvania and Georgia, respectively. According to Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez reporting for CNN, a White Home official indicated that the Biden administration has a coverage that doesn’t permit these working for federal workplace to serve on Presidential boards. That apparently prompted the Biden Administration to ask Oz and Walker on March 23 to resign:

As you possibly can see, Oz talked about Covid in his tweet although he was sked to resign from the President’s Council on Sports activities, Health, and Diet and never the President’s Council on Covid, Covid, and Covid. He didn’t point out Fauci, the Director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments (NIAID), in these tweets, although a few of his earlier tweets have been reasonably Fauci-centric, as I lined for Forbes on February 28. Heck, on Valentine’s Day, Oz tweeted, “Roses are purple, violets are blue, Dr. Fauci lied to you. Completely satisfied Valentine’s Day to everybody besides Fauci!”

If at 5:39 pm on March 23, you had been questioning when Oz would possibly point out Fauci once more then watch for it, watch for it, you solely needed to wait lower than three hours for it:

Bingo, Oz shifted the subject again to Fauci once more, insisting that “The physician [Biden] ought to ask to resign is Dr. Fauci, for a large number of apparent causes.” His subsequent tweet on the thread indicated that “If President Biden need to politicize well being, he must fireplace me”:

As you possibly can see within the tweet above and within the following tweet, some on the Twittersphere responded to Oz’s declare of “politicizing well being” with an open the Hatch response:

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Hatch Act is a federal regulation that was handed in 1939. As the U.S. Office of Special Counsel website describes, this regulation “limits sure political actions of federal staff, in addition to some state, D.C., and native authorities staff who work in reference to federally funded packages.” ​The intention of this regulation is to maintain partisanship out of federal authorities packages as a lot as potential. It tries to “to guard federal staff from political coercion within the office, and to make sure that federal staff are superior based mostly on benefit and never based mostly on political affiliation.​​​​” In different phrases, the Hatch Act is an try to maintain politics out of federal authorities packages.

Oz subsequently responded on March 26 to those Hatch references with one other tweet:

This time he claimed in his connected letter that the Hatch Act didn’t apply to him as a result of he was a “’Much less restricted’ Particular Authorities Worker.” As soon as once more he talked about Fauci, claiming that Fauci has repeatedly violated the Hatch Act, although Fauci has not run for political workplace. The one instance that Oz supplied was that Fauci was “disparaging President Trump and praising candidate Biden simply 4 days earlier than the 2020 Presidential election.” He additionally asserted that “I’ll take into account myself a Council member except in any other case famous.”

Nicely, the list of members on the Council’s website now not contains both Oz or Walker. The White Home has already introduced that they’ve appointed Washington Mystics basketball star Elena Delle Donne and José Andrés, a chef and proprietor of the ThinkFoodGroup restaurant collective, to be co-chairs of the President’s Council. Thus the Council may have two new members, presumably to exchange Oz and Walker.

Flroida lawyer Ron Filipkowski tweeted out what seemed to be a replica of the letter despatched by a member of the Biden Administration to Oz on March 23;

Though it hasn’t been verified whether or not this was a replica of the particular letter that Oz acquired, the second to final line did say “Ought to we not obtain your resignation, your place with the Council will likely be terminated efficient 6:00 pm tonight.” That doesn’t fairly sound like “hey, you possibly can maintain contemplating your self to be a Council member.”

So, will this be a George Costanza-like scenario? Will Oz do what Costanza did in that episode of the TV present Seinfeld, when Costanza continued to indicate up at Rick Barr Properties, although he now not labored there? Will Oz attend the following Council assembly and say, “OK, what are we speaking about in immediately’s assembly,” and can the co-Chairs reply, “umm what are you doing right here?”