Under the heading of "If your time is short," the Poynter Institute's PolitiFact website kindly summarized: "The briefing transcript shows that Trump did not say people should inject themselves with bleach or alcohol to treat the coronavirus. He was asking officials on the White House coronavirus task force whether they could be used in potential cures."
A New York Daily News story pointed to a spike in callers to the city's poison control hotline "Over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners in the 18 hours that followed President Trump's bogus claim that injecting such products could cure coronavirus."
The callers "Feared" that Mr. Trump's words somehow prompted household cleaners to jump down their throats? What the city dubbed its "Case management" actually meant responding to callers saying, "Yuck, yuck, I drank Lysol because Trump suggested it." Not only were there no poisoning cases.
Pranksters didn't get the idea from Mr. Trump but from the press's version of what Mr. Trump said.
That's not Donald Trump but reporters have had four years to get used to his blurting out offhand, half-formed thoughts that even his fans don't take seriously.
What Mr. Trump said about Capt. Humayun Khan, a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, was foolish, but it wasn't that.
The usual fact-checking sites found Mr. Trump's statement to be accurate.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disinfecting-journalistic-ethics-11588719176?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
A New York Daily News story pointed to a spike in callers to the city's poison control hotline "Over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners in the 18 hours that followed President Trump's bogus claim that injecting such products could cure coronavirus."
The callers "Feared" that Mr. Trump's words somehow prompted household cleaners to jump down their throats? What the city dubbed its "Case management" actually meant responding to callers saying, "Yuck, yuck, I drank Lysol because Trump suggested it." Not only were there no poisoning cases.
Pranksters didn't get the idea from Mr. Trump but from the press's version of what Mr. Trump said.
That's not Donald Trump but reporters have had four years to get used to his blurting out offhand, half-formed thoughts that even his fans don't take seriously.
What Mr. Trump said about Capt. Humayun Khan, a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, was foolish, but it wasn't that.
The usual fact-checking sites found Mr. Trump's statement to be accurate.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disinfecting-journalistic-ethics-11588719176?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
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