Guardian: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week

[DanTex]

The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”

He went on to say: “Is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

[Quixote1818]

1. Sounds like if you approach Trump with ANYTHING and say you will give him money he will plug it

Bloomberg should have someone peddle Coco Puffs as a cure for covid19 and see if he figures out he is being punked.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Why didn't Trump hawk Jim Baker's Silver Solution?

Jim would have shared net revenue with Trump, I'm sure.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

3. The background on these fake-religious bleach-as-a-Miracle Cure Florida hucksters

...woud definitely tick a lot of boxes for Trump.

He needs a miracle cure for his prospects in November. This Sacramental bleach promises to cure everything that's ailing him. (Extra bonus, it's a cure for cancer, too. He might get his Nobel Prize after all.)

There are 3 Republican conspiracy theory wingnuts pushing the bleach-drinking scheme.

Ar least one of them was a major birtherism blowhard when Trump was.

It's a swing state church/company selling the bleach "Sacrament."

How perfect, how beautiful, Trump must have thought in his tiny little brain, if HE personally could be The Hero who brings a Miracle Cure to the world's attention and to the rescue of the economy... AND a Republican-owned Florida company/faux church gets to make billions of dollars at the same time!

Everything about this particular bit of insanity is like it was made for him.

He couldn't stop himself from instantly jumping on board.