Donald Trump goes off the deep end about man who died from ingesting chloroquine

[RandySF]

Back before Donald Trump started telling us to inject ourselves with disinfectant in order to fight the coronavirus, he spent a long time falsely portraying a drug called hydroxychloroquine as a risk-free coronavirus treatment. Clinical trials have since shown that coronavirus patients who take hydroxychloroquine are actually more likely to die, and now Trump has suddenly stopped mentioning the drug.

One of the low points in Donald Trump’s hydroxychloroquine debacle was when an Arizona couple heard Trump’s advice and decided to ingest a variant they found in their fish tank chemical supply, called chloroquine phosphate. The husband died, and the wife ended up in the ICU. Now Trump has decided that this whole thing is somehow a conspiracy theory against him.

On Thursday night Trump retweeted an article from a far right propaganda site which made the incredible (and baseless) suggestion that the wife may have been using the whole thing as an excuse to murder her husband. There are almost no words for how awful this is; the woman lost her husband while trying to follow Trump’s corrupt advice, and now Trump is implying that she’s a murderer.

Of course Donald Trump is pushing these kinds of narratives because he knows he’s criminally negligent for having falsely claimed that hydroxychloroquine was risk free, when in fact the powerful drug is well known for having potentially fatal side effects. If Trump loses the election, he’ll face an endless cycle of legal liability for this. He and his apologists seem to be trying to get out ahead of it with disinformation.




https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/ingesting-chloroquine-donald-trump-goes-off-the-deep-end-about-man-died/28157/

[struggle4progress]

1. Yeah? Well, I heard someone was using this whole thing as an excuse to murder thousands of Americans

[barbtries]

4. that's the conspiracy theory

i'm inclined to subscribe to. his twisted mind always looking for some plausible deniability - a virus is the perfect excuse since it's real. the corruption and incompetence informing his actions seem more malevolent than mere ignorance somehow.

[captain queeg]

2. I didn't see the actual quote, not that I doubt it

Everything is about him. Always.

[Celerity]

3. Police say death of Arizona man is not being investigated as a homicide

A Mesa Police spokesman refuted reports circulating in conservative media outlets, calling them "inaccurate."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/police-say-death-arizona-man-not-being-investigated-homicide-n1195591

PHOENIX — Police said Wednesday that the death of an Arizona man who consumed a form of chloroquine phosphate in March is not being investigated as a homicide at this time. Gary Lenius, a resident of Mesa, died on March 22 after he, along with his wife Wanda, consumed a version of chloroquine phosphate intended to treat fish for parasites.

“This investigation is not being treated as a homicide. The death of Gary Lenius has not been ruled a homicide at this time,” Mesa Police Department spokesman Jason Flam told NBC News. Flam said the department's homicide unit is involved because it "investigates all reported deaths within the City of Mesa” — from deaths related to car accidents to the elderly in hospice.

“It’s still an active, ongoing investigation,” he said. On Tuesday, the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative outlet, published an article reporting that a “homicide investigation” into Wanda Lenius was underway. Flam called that report, which has circulated widely in other conservative outlets, “inaccurate.”

Wanda Lenius told NBC News in an interview in late March that she had the non-prescribed chloroquine phosphate at her home for the koi fish that the couple once owned. She said they both each mixed one teaspoon of the non-prescribed chloroquine phosphate with soda. Gary Lenius died at the hospital, and Wanda Lenius remained in critical condition at the hospital for multiple days.

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[spanone]

5. trump killed the man. Plain & Simple.