Did Trump Really Take Hydroxychloroquine?

[douglas9]

The evidence that the president was lying was strong. His lips were moving, for one thing. But perhaps this time he was telling the truth.

President Donald Trump began his week with a staggering admission. Seemingly off the cuff, he announced that he was taking the drug hydroxychloroquine.

What followed was a public debate strange even by present standards. Was the president telling the truth, or was he lying, in a sly provocation, to annoy reporters who have fetishized his recurring promotion of the drug?

The evidence that the president was lying was strong. His lips were moving, for one thing. For another, he was vague and even self-contradictory about how long he’d been taking the drug and why. A statement issued later by his doctor was meant to serve as a confirmation, but never explicitly asserted that he had prescribed the drug for the president. And Trump is famously squeamish about ingesting foreign substances. A man who says he’s never allowed an intoxicant to pass his lips doesn’t seem like the sort of person who would submit his body as a test tube in a one-off nonclinical trial of a controversial drug.

A strong case for the skeptics!

And yet I have come to take the president at his word. Trump has a jumbo-size tolerance for risk. As a businessman, he was a high-wire act, swinging from one bankruptcy and defaulted loan to the next with scarcely a glance at the abyss yawning below him. His diet of taco bowls and Quarter Pounders and gobbets of ketchup washed away in rivers of Diet Coke is what you’d expect from an orphan boy with a bit of pocket money. He refuses any exercise more salubrious than stepping into and out of a golf cart. Maskless in the White House, he inhales unfiltered the vapors of the yes-men who surround him. With unsettling regularity, the man tempts fate, his own and ours.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/trump-accidentally-tells-the-truth/612055/

[exboyfil]

1. Lets test it

Do a meet and greet with coronavirus patients in an ICU.

[zentrum]

2. No, he didn't take it. Yes

....he was lying.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. What a stupid reason.

tRump is not going to put himself at risk. He will risk others: example, the ailing veterans at VA hospitals. He does not consider his diet a risk. In his horrible mind he has been doing it all his life. And, after all, he can churn out doctors who will say he is a fine specimen, healthy as a twenty year old, 6’3”, and weighs only a smidge over 200 pounds. The man is a consistent liar. It is how he makes a living; snaring the gullible.

[NCDem47]

4. Of course not.

When he was talking about it, you could tell he was making it up. He was so non specific and vague. All that “couple of weeks ago” and “in a few days.”

[Harker]

5. He's been blurring the lines between fantasy and reality

all his life. For himself and others.

He probably can't even differentiate a lie from the truth anymore. It's either acceptable or it's "fake news."

[Bayard]

6. No

Just trying to sell it.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. His bullshiter

instincts kicked in a saw a way to enhance his Imagine as well as make a buck.

Do not forget,Trump is a Coke Head and this crap would drop him in his tracks.

[live love laugh]

8. At this point IDGAF nt