Minnesota doctor embattled with state board over COVID treatment gets Johnson backing for governor | Just The News

October 10, 2022

Dr. Scott Jensen, the Minnesota physician who has faced several state medical board investigations — including for prescribing Ivermectin for COVID-19 patients — has gotten a key endorsement in his gubernatorial bid from Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson.

The Jensen campaign said Tuesday in announcing the endorsement that Johnson has been a leading figure investigating the business dealings of President Biden’s son Hunter Biden as well as “fighting for health freedom and holding the establishment accountable.”

Johnson has called Jensen a “health freedom hero” and is encouraging Minnesotans to get behind the doctor’s gubernatorial run, the campaign said.

Jensen told Just the News in January that he has faced five licensing investigations in 17 months and that the most recent one regarding information about his Ivermectin patients was “crossing a line” by invading their medical privacy.

Jensen said at the time he thought the board inquiries were political and that constant disputes spurred him to run as a Republican candidate for governor.

“I think what’s happening is the Board of Medical Practice has been weaponized for political purposes by people who don’t agree with my positions politically,” he said.

The winner of the GOP’s Aug. 8 primary will face Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Gov. Tim Walz, who is running unopposed within his party in his bid for a second term.

Waltz has a significant fundraising advantage over his GOP rivals.

He had roughly $1 million in first quarter contributions and $4.1 million on hand, according to local TV station Fox 9.

The news outlet said the amount in his campaign bank account is three times as much money as his seven Republican challengers have combined.

Jensen led the GOP field in first quarter fundraising with $774,393 on hand and $256,391 in contributions.

He is also a former state senator and in February won the statewide GOP caucus night straw poll. Jensen is the only GOP gubernatorial primary candidate to name a running mate, former NFL offensive lineman Matt Birk, according to Fox 9.

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Pulitzer winner Seymour Hersh claims US Navy behind Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion | New York Post

By Great Bloggers | February 13, 2023

WASHINGTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has alleged US Navy divers laid bombs that destroyed the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea last September, drawing a denial from the Pentagon Wednesday.

Hersh, who scooped journalism’s top award more than five decades ago for exposing the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US troops in 1968, cited an unnamed source in reporting on Substack that Americans planted remotely triggered explosives that wrecked three of the four pipelines built to carry natural gas from Russia to Europe.

Hersh, 85, went on to claim that the Navy conducted the operation under the cover of a NATO maritime exercise, BALTOPS 22.

In a short statement, Pentagon spokesman Marine Corps Lt. Col. Garron J. Garn told The Post “the United States was not involved in the Nord Stream explosion,” reiterating the Defense Department’s response to the same question in October.

Swedish officials suspected the blasts were the result of “gross sabotage,” and some Western officials were quick to blame the attacks on Moscow as it blocked gas supplies to Europe in response to sanctions over last year’s invasion of Ukraine.

“These are deliberate actions, not an accident,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at the time. “The situation is as serious as it gets.”

Pulitzer winner Seymour Hersh claims US Navy behind Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion | New York Post