Welcome to what is the 1084th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Tricia Derges, a licensed assistant physician and a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from District 140 of that body who was first elected to office in 2020, and we have a pretty good feeling will not be seeing a second term in office, given the headlines about her out of the Show-Me-State.
You see, only a month into her first term in office, Tricia Derges was indicted on 23 federal charges of fraud for selling stem cell treatments as a supposed “cure” for Covid-19 and other medical ailments, a growing pattern among Republican politicians who oddly have side-hustles as snake-oil salesmen. She’s not resigning, insists she has a good lawyer who’s going to get her off, but then again, she won’t shut up and has already admitted to illegally selling prescription drugs in the press, and blames her crimes on not being taught in medical school that they were such.
You may now pause to also consider the hypocrisy that her snake oil cure was STEM CELL TREATMENTS given Republican opposition to such things on “pro-life” grounds.
We should also note that upon reaching office, she filed four separate bills meant to affect medical licensing that would allow her to reclassify herself from being an assistant physician to a physician, because of course her entire political career was meant to be a grift in her own favor.
She has not resigned over a year later, and probably won’t, and given that her crimes occurred before she ever reached office, there is little her fellow Missouri Republicans can do but remove her from her committee posts and wait for her term to run out. But truly, she is an amoral huckster that fits the GOP brand these days.
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