We may have already given out an award for the most sycophantic column by a Newsmax writer in the wake of Donald Trump’s assassination attempt, another Newsmax columnist was a close second. That would be George Mentz, who began a July 16 column this way:
Unbelievable ! Eight or more bullets fired in assassination plot hailing down upon President Trump who is the leader in the presidential race for 2024 for his re-election. Trump was hit by at least one sniper bullet, but in an obvious miracle, Donald Trump is now OK.
Survivor Trump rose up from the pile of agents, and against the wishes of the Secret Service, Trump pumped his fist yelling Fight! Fight ! and the crowd literally went absolutely berserk ! Sadly, several people were critically injured and one died.
President Trump was elected in a landslide in 2016 defeating Hillary Clinton after the New York Times said that Trump had almost a zero chance of winning. Since then, President Trump has been attacked with fake dossiers, fake photo evidence, bogus charges, and even fake impeachments using debunked hearsay evidence.
Actually, Trump lost the popular vote, so there’s no way his win could be called a “landslide.” And a jury found Trump guilty of 34 charges, so those clearly weren’t “bogus.”
Mentz then took a stab at reframing things to make Trump look good by comparison with other presidents:
We all know that no president is perfect, but Trump was the USA’s first recent president who did not drink or smoke. Further, if you search the Internet, there are untold numbers of allegations about other U.S. presidents such as Obama, Bush, Clinton and others who may have committed of all sorts of crimes or offenses such as: sexual assault (rape), drunk driving, illegal drugs, gay sex, racist comments, corruption, under age molestation, wiretapping, illegitimate children, and just about every crime imaginable.
While accusations do not make truth, Obama’s White House doctor even recommended that Obama moderate his use of alcohol and tobacco which seems to be a traditional diagnosis of alcoholism and addiction.
Funny that Mentz repeats unsubstantiated claims about other presidents after whining that accusations against Trump are “fake” and “bogus.” Further, “Obama’s White House doctor” did not say that Obama should “moderate his use of alcohol and tobacco which seems to be a traditional diagnosis of alcoholism and addiction” — in a 2014 report, he said that Obama is tobacco-free and drinks alcohol “in moderation.” This doctor, by the way, is Ronny Jackson — currently a Republican congressman — who has been accused of drinking alcohol while on duty and bullying and sexually harassing his subordinates.
But Mentz’s column is headlined “21 Reasons Trump Will Go Down as the Greatest Leader of the Free World,” and aside from the usual right-wing propaganda, he has to manufacture a few claims to fill out his list:
3. Trump is a Family Man – Trump has 5 children and 5 grandchildren.
4. Immigrant Family – Trump is the only President in history who’s mother was an immigrant who’s first language was NOT English.
[…]7. Trump spent 5 Years at New York Military Academy and graduate from Wharton Business School with an economics degree, and has always respected the military.
[…]9. Trump Polling with a Majority Approval This Week – Before the Assassination Attempt
10. Hardest Working President – It is well known that Mr. Trump slept less and worked harder than any President in recent history.
And then there is this claim:
19. No Peace Officers Died on Jan 6th – Most anti-Trump folks still think police died on January 6th and blame Trump. However, this is a Fraud and Proven False by NPR News. No police died on Jan 6th but sadly, several unarmed women who were protesting were killed on that J6 and those deaths were covered up.
Mentz is not going to mention Brian Sicknick, who died of a stroke a day after the Capitol riot; a medical examiner found that “All that transpired played a role in his condition.” But Mertz is not about to let the facts get in the way of his love for Trump:
It is time for the media to stop spreading fake stories and fraud such as: the Russian Dossier, the fake Charlottesville comments, fake evidence used to get FISA Watergate Style wiretaps on Trump’s Campaign, the staged photo evidence of classified documents were also tampered wtih, the fraudulent declarations by 50+ top Intel officers to interfere with elections, calling Trump’s “Protective COVID Travel Ban” racist when it later killed over a million Americans.
In fact, Trump’s travel bans were ineffective in stopping the spread of COVID.
This was followed by an anti-media rant:
It is time for media to condemn fraud. Otherwise, local district attorneys and states’ attorney general will begin filing lawsuits and class actions against media for defrauding the public. Everyone now can see the clear legal damages and national security risks that these massive frauds and hate-based-rhetoric have caused.
As the son of a WWII Combat Veteran and Holocaust liberator, any media personality who compares Trump to Hitler is seen as a total fraud who incites violence, hate and terrorism. This weekend, Billionaire Elon Musk “fully endorsed Trump” and Billioinaire Bill Ackman also endorsed Trump.
Right-wingers love to compare President Obama to Hitler and other Nazis, and we’re not aware of Mertz criticizing that.
Mertz’s bio, by the way, is quite the adventure. It begins by introducing him as “Commissioner George Mentz JD MBA CILS CWM®,” adding that he is “the first in the USA to rank as a Top 50 Influencer & Thought Leader in: Management, PM, HR, FinTech, Wealth Management, and B2B according to Onalytica.com and Thinkers360.com. George Mentz JD MBA CILS is a CWM Chartered Wealth Manager ®, global speaker – educator, tax-economist, international lawyer and CEO of the GAFM Global Academy of Finance & Management ®.” His Global Academy of Finance & Management and the related American Academy of Financial Management are diploma and certification mills that “awarded certifications to applicants who had never taken a course specifically for the award and, in some cases, had not taken a test to prove they knew the topic at hand.” He also claims to have “published 100+ books and audio books” but it tuns out that he’s really just “a prolific author of self-help Illuminati books,” which include titles like “The Illuminati Secret Laws of Money,” “The Illuminati Handbook,” “50 Laws of Power of the Illuminati,” and “100 Secrets and Habits of the Illuminati for Life Success.” He also points out that he is “serving as the titular Seigneur of the Fief Blondel which is one of the oldest legally recognized fiefdoms in the UK Crown Dependencies.” Mertz seems like a guy who loves to acquire titles to make himself seem important.