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Analysis: Shared Link — Townhall Article Defending Dr. Oz

This post is a bare URL share of a Kurt Schlichter column titled "Stop the Dr. Oz Hate and Get With the Program," which defends Trump's endorsed Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz against conservative critics. The post contains no original commentary.

Authorship

Posted at 11:43 AM ET (Trump likely at Bedminster, NJ in late August 2022). Business-hours posting of a curated media link with no commentary is consistent with aide/Scavino activity — a routine content-sharing operation rather than an emotionally driven personal post.

Psychological Context

Within the longitudinal context, Trump is under significant stress from the Mar-a-Lago search fallout. This post represents a brief pivot to campaign maintenance — defending an endorsed candidate whose struggling campaign reflects on Trump's kingmaker brand. Sharing a "rally the troops" article defending Oz serves narcissistic supply maintenance: reinforcing that Trump's endorsement choices are correct and critics should fall in line.

Rhetorical Function

The article title itself ("get with the program") functions as an in-group loyalty demand — a characteristic pattern where dissent from Trump's choices is framed as disloyalty to the broader cause.