{"id":1397758,"date":"2022-03-24T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397758"},"modified":"2022-03-24T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:15:23","slug":"biden-forces-dr-oz-herschel-walker-out-of-fitness-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-forces-dr-oz-herschel-walker-out-of-fitness-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Forces Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker Out of Fitness Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-forces-dr-oz-herschel-walker-out-of-fitness-council%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">P<\/span>resident<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/washington-secrets\/biden-dems-cratering-out-of-touch-condescending\"> Joe Biden<\/a> informed <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/republican-poll-foretells-danger-for-virginia-democratic-house-incumbents\">Republican<\/a> Senate candidates Dr. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/dr-oz-reverses-course-and-says-he-will-renounce-turkish-citizenship-if-elected-to-senate\">Mehmet Oz <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/mike-pompeo-endorses-herschel-walker-in-georgia-senate-race\">Herschel Walker<\/a> that they needed to resign from the President\u2019s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition or they would be removed. <\/p>\n<p>A White House official told <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/23\/politics\/biden-requests-resignations-mehmet-oz-and-herschel-walker\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> the two, appointed to the council by former <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/georgia-emerges-as-2022-test-of-trump-influence-over-gop\">President Donald Trump<\/a>, were in violation of the Biden administration&#8217;s policy of federal candidates serving on presidential boards and were informed Wednesday that they had until 6 p.m. to step down or be forced out. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon running for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, responded to the request in a video message on Twitter. While sharing a photo of the letter, Oz criticized Biden&#8217;s decision as being political and said the president would have to terminate him from the post. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/watch-dr-ozs-latest-attack-ad-suggests-opponent-chose-china-over-pennsylvania\">WATCH: DR. OZ&#8217;S LATEST ATTACK AD SUGGESTS OPPONENT &#8216;CHOSE CHINA OVER PENNSYLVANIA&#8217;<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s sad that he would politicize such an important issue like health. The doctor he should ask to resign is Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, for a multitude of obvious reasons,\u201d Oz said in the caption of a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrOz\/status\/1506785095541264389\">tweet<\/a>. &#8220;I have no intention of resigning. If President Biden wants to politicize health, he will have to fire me. You would think record gas prices, a 40-year inflation high, and the situation in Ukraine would be his highest priorities at the moment.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Walker, a former NFL running back and Heisman Trophy winner running a Senate campaign in Georgia, had not released a statement at the time of publishing. <\/p>\n<p>The White House announced Wednesday that celebrity chef Jose Andres and WNBA star Elena Delle Donne of the Washington Mystics will now co-chair the council. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Completely honored by this appointment, especially to co-chair this committee alongside someone as generous, kind, and talented as Chef Jose Andres,&#8221; Delle Donne <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/De11eDonne\/status\/1506755162878234626\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;Thank you POTUS! I look forward to building awareness around the best ways to take care of our minds and bodies.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the Biden administration <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/national-security\/biden-tells-former-trump-officials-to-resign-military-academy-boards\">pushed out<\/a> other people appointed by Trump from their positions on military service academy boards, including former White House officials Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden informed Republican Senate candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker that they needed to resign from the President\u2019s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}