Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommended that President Donald Trump nominate Dr. Casey Means as his surgeon general, the president said on May 8.
When asked why he nominated Means to the position, Trump told reporters at the White House that it was “because Bobby thought she was fantastic.”
He added later: “I don’t know her. I listened to the recommendation of Bobby.”
Means is a graduate of Stanford University Medical School. After dropping out of a surgeon residency, she founded Levels, an application designed to help Americans make better diet and lifestyle choices.
Trump, a day prior, said he was withdrawing his previous choice, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, who is shifting to become the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia....
