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Trump looking at poster before suggesting shining light and injecting bleach as coronavirus cures Politics

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u/cascadecanyon 16d ago

I remember this article from that time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

“The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem 15d ago

Oh my god, of all the useful things Trump could have read (and probably refused to most of the time) he reads a letter from Mark fucking Grenon. Fyi he and his family later got indicted for selling this poison.

'Archbishop' of Florida church selling bleach 'miracle cure' arrested with son.

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u/sonofaresiii 15d ago

He probably read, or at least was given, tons of good information. What he wanted was a quick miracle cure, which is why he cared about that letter.

It's not like that's the one he randomly happened to read.

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u/AcadianMan 15d ago

It sucks that there aren’t any updates on this.