The Trump campaign communications director confirmed that an effort to recruit doctors to publicly support the president is underway.
of the coalition include the FreedomWorks Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council and Tea Party Patriots.
“Anybody who joins one of our coalitions is vetted,” Murtaugh said Monday. “And so quite obviously, all of our coalitions espouse policies and say things that are, of course, exactly simpatico with what the president believes. ... The president has been outspoken about the fact that he wants to get the country back open as soon as possible.”
“I find it totally irresponsible to have physicians who are touting some information that’s not anchored in evidence and not anchored in science,” El-Sadr said. “What often creates confusion is the many voices that are out there, and many of those voices do have a political interest, which is the hugely dangerous situation we are at now.”“Our job at the campaign is to reflect President Trump’s point of view,” Murtaugh said. “We are his campaign. There is no difference between us and him.
“Those are the types of guys that we should want to get out on TV and radio to help push out the message,” Schlapp said on the call.Schlapp’s husband agreed the president is getting criticized for not appearing to follow the advice of public health experts. Matt Schlapp is chairman of the, which hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference attended by conservative luminaries.
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