Trumpland: Inside the Church of Bleach Drinkers

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A scammy father-son duo have been peddling the dangerous substance as a “cure” for COVID-19 and other ills under the guise of religious freedom.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-church-of-bleach-drinkers

So, remember when President Donald J. Trump insanely told the United States that injecting yourself with bleach might be a cure for the coronavirus? It turns out that there’s a whole slew of wackos who have been promoting bleach drinking—disguised under the name of “miracle mineral solution”—for a range of health problems long before #45 took office and let more than 400,000 Americans die from COVID on his watch.

Daily Beast reporters Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng walk us through the truly terrifying world of extremist bleach enthusiasts—who, surprise surprise, have found a following among the QAnon crowd—on the latest episode of their Fever Dreams podcast. That includes a scammy father-son duo who tried to form a church of bleach so they could claim it was their religious right to sell their chlorine dioxide snake oil. The feds didn’t buy it and now they’ve been indicted (after a brief stint on the lam in South America) in the biggest takedown yet of these dangerous bleach peddlers.

Anti-'stay-at-home' protestor drinks water from a bottle of bleach labelled 'COVID CURE'. AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES