I was upset when POTUS did his stream of consciousness thing re UV light therapy and ended up somehow talking about bleach.
The media absolutely ignored their own reporting inside the press conference, where a reporter asked if he meant injecting people with disinfectant. POTUS said no, he was talking about areas and surfaces.
They then posted on social media, got people really riled up, make it a story.
AP/Daily Mail then created a story about how this “disinfectant issue” is part of Trump’s anti-science agenda.
Snopes.com got right on it and posted an article “Did Trump really say to inject yourself with bleach?” They rated it as true. They did mention Trump’s clarification, but says it wasn’t clear.
Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats repeated the talking point, giving it legitimacy.
They now have an ad for the 2020 election, whereas before, Pelosi’s ice cream video would have been a winner for POTUS.
Trump did himself no favors when he later said he was being sarcastic about suggesting injecting it into people. This was an unforced error on his part, because now the media are saying “If he didn’t say it in the presser, why is he saying he said it, even as a joke?”
He made his re-election in 2020 even tougher.
It is time to get them all off the stage and back to work opening up the country.
The media absolutely ignored their own reporting inside the press conference, where a reporter asked if he meant injecting people with disinfectant. POTUS said no, he was talking about areas and surfaces.
That was John Karl, the 3rd rater, making stuff up. It was Karl who proposed folks drink bleach