When Dr. John Ammon heard that America’s Frontline Doctors’ (AFLD) founder was sentenced to prison for participating in the Capitol rally on Jan. 6, he was disgusted.
“It's mind-boggling and I hope she wins a $50 million lawsuit against the government one day,” said Ammon, an anesthesiologist who was trained at Stanford University. “It’s a criminalized Justice Department. They are weaponized. They've been weaponized since, not Trump's administration, but the one before and now, and it's gotten much worse with the current crop of people that are representing the U.S. presidency.”
Dr. Simone Melissa Gold was arrested in Beverly Hills on Jan. 18, 2021, and charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct after she walked into the U.S. Capitol in a crowd of people holding a megaphone because she wanted to warn people about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“On January 6, 2021, a member of the news media posted a video to Twitter entitled “Statuary Hall being slowly cleared out,” at 2:58 p.m.,” U.S. Department of Justice charging documents state. “In the video, a man bearing resemblance to John Strand can be seen with a recording device. The man was recording a woman, consistent in appearance with Gold, giving a speech to a small gathering of people.”
Gold, who founded AFLD two years ago, opposed pandemic lockdowns, masks, and the COVID vaccine but promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine. Like Gold, Ammon is anti-COVID-19 vaccine.
“This is not a vaccine, it's a gene therapy,” Ammon told the Southern California Record. “Simone Gold was very forceful. She did what she believed. She's scientifically on very safe ground and I'm quite confident that she was always on the right track. She’s a leader. I did very much the same thing in Arizona with Obamacare because I felt it was a terrible step into socialism and it was going to compromise healthcare.”
On June 16, Gold was sentenced to 60 days in jail, one year of supervised release, a $9,500 fine, and $500 restitution, but Ammon thinks two months in prison is a waste.
“She cares about the welfare of patients and I'm in complete agreement with her about alternate COVID therapies like Ivermectin,” he added. “Simone is a very valued citizen, in terms of the practice of medicine, in terms of the advocacy for patient care and in terms of what's right. Have her do some public service for homeless patients, not prison time.”