Here we go again.
Media lying about what President Trump said.
They lied about him saying that White supremacists and nazis were “very fine people” – as anyone who bothers to read the transcripts knows.
They lied about him calling COVID-19 a hoax – as anyone who read his actual statement knows.
They have lied about a truckload of other things he supposedly said.
And now they are lying about him saying that people should inject themselves with disinfectant.
Here are just two of the countless “news” reports from various media venues:
The president came in for near-universal condemnation Friday after his suggestion, with health officials and even some close allies rushing to warn that the public should not listen to him and should not ingest or inject disinfectant, bleach or any other household chemical.
An unusually high number of New Yorkers contacted city health authorities over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners in the 18 hours that followed President Trump’s bogus claim that injecting such products could cure coronavirus, the Daily News has learned.
During Thursday night’s coronavirus briefing at the White House, Trump suggested doctors may be able to cure coronavirus by injecting disinfectants like bleach directly into the lungs of their patients.
But Trump did not suggest that they ingest or inject disinfectant, bleach or any other household chemical.
And Trump did not make a claim, bogus or otherwise that injecting such products could cure coronavirus.
For the third time now – this is getting tiresome – Trump, responding to Under Secretary for Science and Technology Bill Bryan, said the following (please pay special attention to the part I’ve put in bold print):
“So, I’m going to ask Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing when we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it.
“And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute.
“And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.
“So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.”
As you can plainly see, Trump did nothing but ask if this could be done. He did not suggest that it could be done, he did not claim that it could be done, he asked if it could be done. Nothing more.
So the “unusually high number of New Yorkers” contacting city health authorities about ingesting bleach or other household cleaners” wasn’t because Trump suggested or claimed this could be done, it was because media lied to them that he did.
Add this to the “media lies about what Trump says” pile. But you’ll have to give it a good toss, because that pile is very, very high…and getting higher all the time.
Remind me again: do these “journalists” really still wonder why fewer and fewer people trust them?
I’d like to see someone who ingested bleach sue the media outlets that lied about what Trump said.
Also, were in the middle of a pandemic that is another reason calls are up to poison control this year over last year.
I can’t help but think of something Ann Coulter said in 2016.
The more people see of him, the more they like him. The usual pattern is: Trump says something perfectly sensible, the media lie about it, then voters find out the truth and like him more and the media less.
Ann Coulter 2016