Fake President exploits dying child for political gain.
Charlie Gard is going to die. That is a certainty. He has the worst sort of MDDS, the encephalitic RRM2B variant, and that is invariably lethal. Worse, he has already suffered irreversible brain damage, any treatment, and there is no treatment, would leave him hopelessly brain damaged.
There is a doctor in New York who is conducting experimental treatments for this condition, and Charlie's desperate parents have tried and failed to convince the courts that they should be allowed to take him to the us for treatment. They failed to convince the courts because, as the decision states, even the doctor agrees that there is no chance of success.
"he is so severely affected by encephalopathy that any attempt at therapy would be futile."
The doctor would of course agree to treat anyway, bit it seems primarily for the research data obtained.
The court decision is here: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gosh-v-yates-and-gard-20170411-1.pdf
This is what Trump has chosen to use this week to promote his Fake Presidency. It is well chosen. As usual the naive will line up to be used and abused by the religious right and by their allies, including of course our home grown fascists and their demented leader.
It will probably work to deflect away from the catastrophic week Fake President just had, which however also managed to deflect away from the horrible richcare bill still stuck in the bowels of the Senate.
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