Posted on 04/07/2020 9:18:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fox host Laura Ingraham and two of her regular medical guests—cardiologist Ramin Oskoui and infectious disease specialist Stephen Smith—reportedly met privately with U.S. President Donald Trump and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn last Friday to persuade him to endorse the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus, according to The Washington Post.
Ingraham has been promoting the drug as a potential treatment to coronavirus on her Fox News show and has referred to the two aforementioned doctors as her "medicine cabinet." During the meeting, Smith said he showed Trump documents and "a detailed presentation" about hydroxychloroquine's benefits "based on his own experiences and studies" and its uses in hospitals.
White House officials who spoke anonymously with The Post to candidly comment on the meeting said it "appeared to be an effort to press Trump to ratchet up his public support for the drug." Trump reportedly "listened intently" and left "seemingly determined" to push for its wider use.
Trump has repeatedly mentioned hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus from early on in his daily epidemic briefings to as recently as this weekend when he said, "What do you have to lose? Take it. I really think they should take it. But it's their choice. And it's their doctor's choice or the doctors in the hospital. But hydroxychloroquine. Try it, if you'd like."
During his Sunday briefing, Trump even prevented Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the infectious disease expert on his coronavirus task force, from answering CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond's question about whether he agreed with the president's belief in the drug.
Before Dr. Fauci could respond, Trump said, "You know how many times he's answered that question? Maybe 15 times."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Now here’s a the insinuation inside the Newsweek article:
MSN reports that the largest manufacturers of hydroxychloroquine, Novartis, once paid Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen over $1 million “for healthcare policy insight following Trump’s election in 2016.” Both Oskoui and the FDA declined to comment on The Post’s report.
“Yet unproven treatment’? Cuz almost every report we see is proving that is does work-
Yep, they can’t resist putting in a dig against Trump, even in the face of saving lives.
Yeah....all the twitter lib bots are tweeting that one out.
[[[As Dr. Smith stated tonight, if its “unsafe” why has it been used for RA and Lupus patients for decades?]]]
This is partisan insanity mixed with big pharma shills that are depending on a billion dollar payoff for a vaccine and high dollar treatments.
Look for these two doctors to be destroyed now over this.
Trump should go out there and say, “Don’t take this drug.” Then it would be readily available to everyone and touted as an effective treatment.
Novartis paid Trump lawyer Michael Cohen $1.2 million for advice on Obamacare – work he was unable to do
LOL...this has already gone through the Mueller tentacles....Cohen was fired - from trying to make $$ as a consultant for Novartis.
If there wouldn’ve been anything there, it would’ve already been exposed.
Another leftist nothingburger.
“White House officials who spoke anonymously with The Post”
“anonymously” is the key word. We are supposed to believe in something that cannot be verified? Nonsense!! Sounds like evolution—yes that one by Darwin.
DR Faust (yes he’s made a deal with the devil Gates) doesn’t like being shown wrong in public. Maybe he should be called Lil Napoleon.
He insists on having a control group. H—— every one who has died because they have not been given the medication is about as big of a control group a person can get!
The man has NO common sense! Or he is crooked.
President Trump knows Dr. Fauci will never agree that there's any treatment for Coronavirus. Fauci wants America in lockdown, because he is part of the Leftist fifth column.
just another evil stream media hit piece willing to murder thousands if it’ll help “get Trump” ...
How many lives have been saved from that drug combination now? The media would rather have dead bodies than this drug save them. They are sicker than the Chinese govt.
Yet unproven treatmeny?
What treatment is proven!?..none ...that the point .. ever thing they try in unproven right now.. so why hold the one drug that seem to have promise back from use
Fauci has zero ok authority over the approval of drugs. Zero. It’s not his job, not his department. He’s somehow placed himself as some kind of ultimate authority over what drugs should be used, or not, for what purposes.
And Trump lets him get away with this usurpation.
Repeat: Fauci has NO authority over what drugs are approved, or used. No more than I do.
God bless him and some folks at Fox...
Fake News.
Of course I might miss out on the all expense paid trip through ICU and that wild ride on a ventilator.
After all, I'm currently experiencing the social distancing intervention and it came with no research pedigree. We can't be sure it works, maybe it is and maybe it isn't. It's side effects have worked wonders with my IRAs, put friends out of work, disrupted countless businesses....
And...? Many doctors in the field and others have reported it is working in a lot of patients when coupled with zinc. Actual doctors treating patients. Easy to look up and verify. But not for Newsweek - it’s all propaganda, all the time.
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