https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/24/politics/fact-check-trump-disinfectant-sarcastic/index.html
President Donald Trump lied Friday when he said he was being "sarcastic" when he asked medical experts on Thursday to look into the possibility of injecting disinfectant as a treatment for the coronavirus.
Doctors and the company that makes Lysol and Dettol warned
that injecting or ingesting disinfectants is dangerous. But when Trump
was asked about the comments during a bill signing on Friday, he said,
"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see
what would happen."
He
then suggested he was talking about disinfectants that can safely be
rubbed on people's hands. And then he returned to the sarcasm
explanation, saying it was "a very sarcastic question to the reporters
in the room about disinfectant on the inside."
A
reporter noted that he had asked his medical experts to look into it.
Trump responded: "No, no, no, no -- to look into whether or not sun and
disinfectant on the hands, but whether or not sun can help us."
Facts First: Trump
was not being "sarcastic" on Thursday when he raised the possibility of
injecting disinfectant. There was simply no indication that he was
being anything less than serious. He was also wrong Friday when he
denied he had asked the medical experts to "check" the idea of
disinfectant injections; he was looking at them at the time. And he did
not mention hands during his Thursday remarks.
Every time you bring up Trump I check the news and discover that Biden or one of his cronies just did something really stupid like threaten to run over a reporter for asking a question he didn't likle.
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