Dr. Simone Gold finally accused by California Medical Board
The AFLDS front woman's Insurrection involvement called "unprofessional conduct" by the CMB over two years later
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Dr. Simone Gold, the embattled founder of the pro-Trump America’s Frontline Doctors, is finally being held accountable by the California Medical Board for her January 6th involvement.
The now-Council for National Policy member has been a central player in the MAGA public health disinformation strategy and has enjoyed two years of lobbying efforts from the likes of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons to protect her - and their political movement - from accountability. Despite the deadly effects of her disinformation, she has been allowed to continue engaging in extremism both before and after prison as a cast member on Mike Flynn’s ReAwaken America tour.
Existing issues including a whistleblower case at the CMB help to explain why it took this long for former Beverly Hills resident Gold to be called out. Despite AFLDS’s stalking and ambushing of CMB President Kristina Lawson while Gold was awaiting sentencing, Gold’s California license was only temporarily suspended during her brief incarceration last summer. Per her J6 plea deal, the radicalized physician-attorney was not to commit crimes prior to her sentencing date. It is worth questioning if sending minions to stalk/ambush Lawson for a propaganda film depicting her as a Nazi arguably broke that plea agreement. Gold was granted a medical license in Ron DeSantis’s fascist Florida after relocating. Her AFLDS colleague and fellow former UCLA employee, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, serves as the state’s surgeon general.
While AFLDS is embedded in Governor Ron DeSantis’s Florida, the Koch Network is fighting multiple lawsuits back in California over AB2098 - the physician license accountability bill Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law last year. It’s ongoing victimization in the face of the massive actual harm they have caused.
This is the second high-profile AFLDS member to face license accountability, following Dr. Ryan Cole’s letter from the Washington Medical Commission. AFLDS is involved in both an internal lawsuit over Gold’s embezzling of their dirty money and a hydroxychloroquine wrongful death case out of Nevada. A lower-ranking member of AFLDS who did not have the lobbying support Gold has relied on for the past two years lost her medical licenses in Florida and North Carolina, as MedPage Today reported. Simone Gold is not the only known physician insurrectionist but is the most central player in the MAGA disinformation pipeline.
Gold’s spiral into extremist politics and the deadly effects of her lies have been a horrifying train wreck to watch in slow motion. The action from the California Medical Board is appreciated and extremely overdue. We must now do a post-mortem on the systemic issues that allowed Gold to take such a dangerous path and stay on it so long. We must hold the individuals and institutions who abetted her - through either direct aid or knowing blind eyes - accountable for her public health and political destruction.