PENNSYLVANIA (LifeSiteNews) – Former President Donald Trump disappointed some of his most ardent supporters over the weekend by endorsing TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, despite his history of staking out left-wing positions on issues important to conservatives. “I have known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show,” Trump said on April 9. “He has lived with us through the screen and has always been popular, respected, and smart. He even said that I was in extraordinary health, which made me like him even more (although he also said I should lose a couple of pounds!).”
Trump claimed Oz “is Pro-Life, very strong on Crime, the Border, Election Fraud, our Great Military, and our Vets, Tax Cuts, and will always fight for and support our under-siege Second Amendment,” and that he “will be the one most able to win the General Election” because of his alleged appeal to women as well as voters in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, “where other candidates will just not be accepted.”
Trump’s endorsement reflects Oz’s conservative campaign rhetoric, but contrasts sharply against the host’s past public statements. As recently as 2019, he attacked abortion bans predicated on the presence of fetal heartbeats, on the grounds that “they’re electrical changes at six weeks, but the heart’s not beating,” as well as suggested that Roe v. Wade saved women from largely-mythical “coat hanger” abortions and framed his “personal” opposition to abortion as distinct from what the law should be.
In 2010, Oz emerged as a critical, early backer of “transitioning” gender-confused children, running an hour-long special about “transgender children” that promoted a fifteen-year-old girl who had undergone a double mastectomy at age fourteen and an eight-year-old boy being raised as a girl named “Josie.”
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