UPDATE: Newsmax on Sunday announced the company will not be implementing a vaccine mandate.
Newsmax host and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Cortes tweeted that he will not be complying with any vaccine mandates.
I will not comply w/ any organization’s attempt to enforce Biden’s capricious & unscientific Medical Apartheid mandate.
I will not be forced into the injection, nor will I disclose my vaccination status.
No one should be pressured to choose between medical privacy & their job.
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) November 6, 2021
“I will not comply w/ any organization’s attempt to enforce Biden’s capricious & unscientific Medical Apartheid mandate,” Cortes wrote. “I will not be forced into the injection, nor will I disclose my vaccination status.”
The host added that “no one should be pressured to choose between medical privacy and their job.
Do Not Comply pic.twitter.com/SA3IwPho3D
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) November 6, 2021
Many staff members and reporters at the network have been very outspoken critics of mandates.
Employees at the network have until Jan. 4, 2022 to be fully vaccinated, or else they will be required to take a weekly COVID test.
