Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week

[CousinIT]

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!”

He went on to say: “Is there a way we can do something, by an 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.”

Trump did not specify where the idea of using disinfectant as a possible remedy for Covid-19 came from, and the source for his notion remains obscure. But the Guardian has learned that peddlers of chlorine dioxide – industrial bleach – have been making direct approaches to the White House in recent days.

[Faux pas]

1. They

have no souls.

[question everything]

2. This is the same material that ani-vaxxers give as enema to their autistic children

These poor children should be taken away from them.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Oh my God

That's sick

[maveric]

3. I know Mark Grenon. Went to school with him.

He’s always been a scheming scumbag.

[Blue Owl]

5. WTF are they thinking???

[BGBD]

6. Easy to see coming

I "joked" in a thread yesterday that Trump was going to be selling miracle mineral solution on his campaign site soon and in less than 24 hours Mark Grenon and the Genesis II church pop up as the source of this great idea.

If you don't know who these people are, you need to. Listen to the Behind the Bastards podcast and the episode "The Church of Drinkin' Bleach."

[Snackshack]

12. Thanks.

For the podcast tip!

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Twenty . Fifth . Amendment

He's a fucking loon.




(No offense to Canada intended.)

[question everything]

8. Do you really think that any of these so-called cabinet memers

who start their day by bowing and telling him how great he is will do anything?




And... The Loon is Minnesota state Bird

[Stinky The Clown]

10. I see a less than zero chance his veep and cabinet would turn on him.

Does Minnesota have its own dollars?

LOL

[Maraya1969]

9. Link to an NBC news article about the bleachers

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/moms-go-undercover-fight-fake-autism-cures-private-facebook-groups-n1007871

[CousinIT]

11. These people are insane. That's from 2019 though. I think Trump got the idea from his 'advisor'

..who is evidently peddling the stuff:

Since the start of the pandemic, Genesis II has been marketing MMS as a cure to coronavirus. It advises users, including children, to mix three to six drops of bleach in water and drink it.

In his weekly televised radio show, posted online on Sunday, Grenon read out the letter he wrote to Trump. He said it began: “Dear Mr President, I am praying you read this letter and intervene.”

Grenon said that 30 of his supporters have also written in the past few days to Trump at the White House urging him to take action to protect Genesis II in its bleach-peddling activities which they claim can cure coronavirus.

On Friday, hours after Trump talked about disinfectant on live TV, Grenon went further in a post on his Facebook page. He claimed that MMS had actually been sent to the White House. He wrote: “Trump has got the MMS and all the info!!! Things are happening folks! Lord help others to see the Truth!”

Paradoxically, Trump’s outburst about the possible value of an “injection” of disinfectant into the lungs of Covid-19 sufferers came just days after a leading agency within the president’s own administration took action to shut down the peddling of bleach as a coronavirus cure around the US.