Mehmet Oz, Doctor of Quackery, Trump 2.0 Apppointee Takes Credit for Work Done Years Earlier

Trump 2.0's Medicare and Medicaid administrator, Dr. Oz, took to X on Monday, 26 Jan 2026, to take credit for efforts against health care fraud in California — but was quickly shot down by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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two months after Trump 2.0 took office, with Mehmet Oz on the team, Hospice industry gets reprieve
as Trump 2.0 pauses oversight program

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on 29 Jan 2026,

the quack travels to L.A. seeking fraud, posted a video accusing Armenian criminal groups of carrying out widespread healthcare fraud

The video shows Oz standing in front of a sign for an Armenian bakery and says, "you notice that the lettering and language behind me is of that dialect and it also highlights the fact that this is an organized crime mafia deal."

The quack is pretending to be a criminal investigator !
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The video comes as the Trump administration has launched a national effort to highlight allegations of federal funding fraud in Democratic-led states including Minnesota, California and New York.

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on 29 Jan,2026

Newsom files a civil rights complaint against the doctor of quackery

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In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, Newsom called on the agency to investigate
"Dr. Oz's baseless and racist allegations against Armenian Americans in California."

"Such racially charged and false public statements by anyone involved in administering these critical federal healthcare programs seriously risks chilling participation in those programs by individuals targeted by the statements," Newsom's office wrote in the complaint.



imo, the quack, with Turkish heritage, picked on the wrong state / ethnic scapegoat,

Didn't the Quack know that Newsom just kicked Trump 2.0 azz twice in 2025 ?

• Court ruled Trump's deloyed of National Guard with out the request of Calif's Gov is unconstitutional,
  • Trump had to end the deployment
• Calif voters passed Prop 50 resoundingly, neuterring Trump/Gov Wheelies gerrymandering efforts in Texas

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Also, Armenian Americans have large political clout in Calif; and many of them are GOPers
who had voted for Trump 3 times.​

 

Just Like RFK Jr., Mehmet Oz Has Spent His Career Pushing Pseudoscience.

Oz has claimed that

• selenium supplements are “the holy grail of cancer prevention,” with no scientific evidence to back the claim.
• raspberry ketones are “the No. 1 miracle in a bottle to burn your fat.
• using strawberries and baking soda are effective to whiten teeth
• umckaloabo root extract is “incredibly effective at relieving cold symptoms,”
• astrological signs “may reveal a great deal about our health.”
• antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine could be an effective treatment.

Mehmet Oz reached a $5.25 million deal in a false advertising class action accusing him of overstating the benefits of dietary supplements promising weight loss.




How a quack TV doctor made it to Washington

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...vil-rights-complaint-dr-oz-video/88431268007/

Many Armenian families began settling in California over a century ago after fleeing from the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocide in the early 20th century, though some arrived decades earlier. MAny settled in Calif's San Joaquin valley, home of the most fertile farm land in the world.

Southern California is home to the largest Armenian population in the country. Oz's video has spurred a large backlash among California politicians and Armenian American community leaders.

"When a federal official like Dr. Oz traffics in racism and baseless claims that single out an entire community, it spreads fear and discrimination," California Assemblyman John Harabedian, a Pasadena Democrat who is the only Armenian currently in the state legislature, said in a statement to USA TODAY. "Californians of Armenian heritage and all our neighbors deserve leadership that defends civil rights and holds useless figures like Dr. Oz accountable for words that harm real people.”

State officials sought an investigation into potential violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VI, which protects people − regardless of race, color or national origin − from being excluded from federal benefits. Newsom’s press office earlier said it was taking the allegations seriously given “historic sensitivities” between Turkey and Armenia.

 

The California Armenian Legislative Caucus Foundation condemns Dr. Oz’s targeting of Armenian Americans


Assemblymember John Harabedian (Pasadena), chair of the California Armenian Legislative Caucus Foundation, said Oz’s remarks were both misleading and inflammatory.

“Dr. Oz knows a thing or two about fraud.

He’s made millions promoting magic pills and miracle cures, betraying the Americans who trusted him. The Trump Administration is stripping healthcare benefits from millions of Americans while Dr. Oz is cruising around Los Angeles demonizing the Armenian community. Healthcare fraud is a real problem, and it starts from the top.”​

 

The California Armenian Legislative Caucus Foundation condemns Dr. Oz’s targeting of Armenian Americans

Assemblymember John Harabedian (Pasadena), chair of the California Armenian Legislative Caucus Foundation, said Oz’s remarks were both misleading and inflammatory.

“Dr. Oz knows a thing or two about fraud. He’s made millions promoting magic pills and miracle cures, betraying the Americans who trusted him. The Trump Administration is stripping healthcare benefits from millions of Americans while Dr. Oz is cruising around Los Angeles demonizing the Armenian community. Healthcare fraud is a real problem, and it starts from the top.”

 

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Mehmet Oz’s anti-Armenian smear in LA fits a pattern, this was another blatant act of
convenient ethnic profiling by Trump 2.0, a reckless way to stigmatize an entire ethnic group

Instead of targeting individuals based on specific evidence, Oz, a Turkish American who holds dual citizenship,
put forward the worst kind of stereotype.

Oz’s comments are a textbook example of ethnic scapegoating and follow a disturbing pattern by the Trump 2.0, which
has made a habit of attacking immigrant, brown communities. When a government official tells the public that Armenian script
on a building is itself a sign of criminality, they are inviting harassment and discrimination against that community.
Put simply, this was yet another bigoted smear by a Trump 2.0 appointed official.

Perhaps this was a payback from the quack.

It was during Oz’s Senate race in Pennsylvania in 2022 when a highly organized and vocal campaign by Armenian Americans played
a pivotal role in his defeat. By turning a national election into a local referendum on accountability, genocide and foreign influence,
the Armenian American community helped to defeat Oz by a razor-thin margin.

 

Sen. Adam Schiff vows Senate oversight of targeting of community
he has represented in Congress for more than two decades

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at the World Economic Summit in Davaso, Switzerland last week, FoxNews Business anchor, Maria Bartiromo provided a platform
for the quack to pretend that he is an economist

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it was as embarrassing as

• Dr. Phil traveling to Aruba to investigate the disapperance of American teenager Natalie Halloway
• Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault
• Terry Bradshow hosting a TV talk show, that is not football-related
• My Pillow guy claiming to have proof that that was election fraud in 2020

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