Trump: People who passed away while using hydroxychloroquine ‘were ready to die’
In a meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump strongly defended his decision to take hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic against coronavirus, despite any scientific evidence — and claimed the people who died while taking it were going to die anyway.
Many “great studies” back up the use of hydroxychloroquine, said Trump. He contrasted this with the “phony VA study” that cast doubt on its use.
In fact, there are multiple large studies revealing hydroxychloroquine is worthless for treating infected patients, although a study into whether it can be used prophylactically, as Trump is doing, is ongoing. And as Trump’s own VA secretary quickly pointed out, the VA didn’t actually study anything — what he is referring to is a meta-analysis of cases within the VA system.
Trump went on to add that hydroxychloroquine is “used by thousands and thosuands of front-line workers” and that “it doesn’t harm you.” As for the people who died of heart complications after taking it, Trump said, they “were ready to die” anyway.
Trump calls study on HCQ treatment for vets with Covid “a phony study put out by the VA”
“(T)hey gave it … to people that were ready to die … everybody was old” and had “bad problems with hearts,” diabetes
POTUS say researchers were “obviously not friends of my administration”— Maegan Vazquez (@maeganvaz) May 19, 2020
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A historian details Trump’s surprising and peculiar relationship with America’s Puritan legacy
Whatever one feels about it, the ‘Trump phenomenon’ is often described as the US version of a populist trend that has impacted on many areas of contemporary global politics. However, despite the global political similarities, Donald Trump’s success is also rooted in a peculiarly American experience, since a very large and influential part of his support base lies among Christians of the so-called ‘evangelical right’.
The presidential inauguration, in 2017, featured six religious leaders, more than any other inauguration in history. Since then many evangelical leaders have (controversially) claimed that God has placed Trump in the White House, despite his character flaws, because he is the man who will get God’s work done at this – in their view – critical point in US and world history. As a result, the influence of evangelical Christians on American politics has never been more pronounced. From the appointment of Supreme Court judges to US relations with Israel, from support for ‘The Wall’ to abortion legislation, the power of this extraordinary lobby is seen in the changing politics and policies of the nation. A veritable culture war appears to be occurring over the future direction of the USA; a battle for the ‘soul of America’.
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White House decided to violate social distancing guidelines for journalists because it ‘looks better’: reporters
President Donald Trump held a press briefing in the White House Rose Garden on Friday — and according to an official statement from the White House Correspondents Association, the event was inconsistent with the administration’s own social distancing guidelines.
WHCA President Jonathan Karl explained: “Today, the White House press office positioned seating for the president’s Rose Garden’ ‘news conference’ in a way that violated the federal government’s guidelines on social distancing and needlessly put reporters’ health at risk.”
WHCA statement on today’s press conference—at which Trump took no questions—where seats were initially placed far apart but were moved closer together before the event started. The press office told WHCA that decision was made because "it looks better.” pic.twitter.com/KEXbHxfLh5
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Trump supporters desperately grasp at a new ‘gotcha’ to discredit a national social justice uprising
Unable to defend the extrajudicial killing of black people by the police or the viciousness of police assaults on peaceful protesters, conservatives are grasping desperately at a new gotcha to discredit the recent national uprisings: Liberals are a bunch of hypocrites. This time, however, it's got a coronavirus twist, as progressives are being accused of hypocrisy for supporting the protests while allegedly opposing all other social gatherings in the name of "public health."
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