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Trump claims he was ‘sarcastically’ pitching disinfectant as COVID-19 cure |
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President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he was only testing the media when he suggested injecting people with disinfectant to fight off the coronavirus.
“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” he said early Friday afternoon, just as the coronavirus death toll in the U.S. surpassed 50,000.
Trump did not appear to be joking when he pondered the idea at Thursday’s press briefing.
“I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute,” Trump said at the time, once again pushing unproven treatments for COVID-19. “Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? … It would be interesting to check that.”
Trump made those remarks after senior Department of Homeland Security official Bill Bryan said experiments showed the coronavirus didn’t fare well in sunlight, heat or humidity.“
Suppose you can bring the light inside the body,” Trump pondered aloud on Thursday.
But Trump insisted Friday that he was talking about using disinfectant on hands, not inside the body. |
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| | Democrat sexual assault survivors have expressed anger at the choice of voting for a Joe Biden -- a man facing one assault allegation -- or Donald Trump, who has faced upward of 60. |
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Of the most-discussed vice presidential picks for Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is the one most likely to unify the Democratic Party and win over supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to a new poll. |
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Extremists are promoting anti-government violence on Facebook during the coronavirus pandemic, and the social media giant appears to be doing little about it. |
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