case in point, this tweet from a doctor who once had the rare honor of taking care of the former president. here s what now-congressman ronny jackson posted about omicron. here comes the mev, the midterm election variant, exclamation mark. they need a reason to push unsolicited nationwide mail-in ballots. democrats will do anything to cheat during an election but we are not going to let them. that s where we are tonight. joining us, andy slavitt, author of preventable, the inside story of how leadership, failures, politics, and selfishness doomed of the u.s. coronavirus response. i have always thought, andy, that doctors are just incredibly intelligent, smart people. this guy he s either an idiot or just incredibly machiavellian because now, he needs to get elected to represent his district supposedly represent them. i don t know exactly what he s doing. um, but he s just now making just this complete conspiracy theory. he s a doctor. i mean, he he s supposed to
south africa and as you mentioned, as well, it s now in maybe 20 countries around the world. i think all the evidence points to the fact that this is a very transmissible virus and one we need to take seriously. again, if you want the information, stay tuned. we re going get it to you. the experts are going to weigh in here tonight. with all of that, with the world on edge wondering what omicron will mean, i can t believe the lies and misinformation are spreading faster than the variant. here is exhibit a. congressman ronny jackson, remember, he was let me remind you he s a doctor for the former white house physician for the former guy, he is tweeting this. this is what he tweeted. here come the mev, the midterm election variant. they need a reason to push unsolicited nationwide mail in ballots. democrats will do anything to cheat during an election but we re not going to let them. again, a doctor trying to turn this variant into just another opportunity to push the big lie
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displacing the delta variant in south africa and as you mentioned, as well, it s now in maybe 20 countries around the world. i think all the evidence points to the fact that this is a very chan transmissible virus and one we need to take seriously. if you want the information, stay tuned. the experts will weigh in tonight. with all of that, with the world on edge wondering what omicron will mean, i can t believe the lies and misinformation are spreading faster than the variant. here is exhibit a. congressman ronny jackson, remember, he was let me remind you he s a doctor for the former white house physician for the former guy, he is tweeting this. this is what he tweeted. here come the mev, the midterm election variant. they need a reason to push unsolicited nationwide mail in ballots. democrats will do anything to cheat during an election but we re not going to let them. again, a doctor trying to turn
here comes the mev, midterm election variant. and what jackson is accusing democrats of here is manifesting this variant to try and help them in the midterm elections. he is an actual doctor and i am sure you ve seen that tweet. yeah. i think, you know, ronny used to be an actual doctor. such a disappointment. you know, you would think that we would really benefit from having more medical doctors in congress during the time of a pandemic but not when you re spreading disinformation. most of us take the hip kratic oath when we graduate from medical school and part of the oath has us pledge to share information. but what ronny is doing is sharing disinformation and we also pledge to do no harm. and his disinformation does a lot of harm and it reminds me of sort of the original sin of the last administration s pandemic response, which was to to cause parts of the american public to doubt the severity of the pandemic.