The dead giveaway in Donald Trump’s hydroxychloroquine confession

| 1:03 am EDT May 19, 2020
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Either Donald Trump is idiotically taking hydroxychloroquine for no good reason, or he’s falsely claiming he’s taking a potentially fatal drug because he wants to con others into doing the same. Take your pick; either one is more than a bit disturbing. But when Trump was “confessing” to abusing hydroxychloroquine today, there was a detail that most observers overlooked.

While Donald Trump was making the assertion that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine to protect himself against potential coronavirus infection, he also claimed that numerous frontline medical workers are doing the same. This is definitely false; ask any frontline medical worker and they’ll tell you as much. It’s also an oddly specific false claim, and not the kind that an unimaginative Trump would come up with on his own.

It’s pretty clear that someone else has convinced Donald Trump to either take hydroxychloroquine or to pretend to be taking hydroxychloroquine, and that this person pushed Trump into it by feeding him the lie about frontline medical professionals taking it. Whether Trump is taking the drug or not, someone in his orbit is pulling his strings on this – and that person needs to be identified and criminally investigated for it.