Doing this to help the company and rich republicans. Always follow the money with this guy.

Anonymous wrote:He’s a buffoon going “all in” on all he’s got.

Plus he’s obsessed with the Carnegie “power of positive thinking” malarkey. Magical thinking.

Sorry, that is Norman Vincent Peale‘s self-help philosophy, not Carnegie. Carnegie is the how to win friends guru.

He’s a buffoon going “all in” on all he’s got.

Plus he’s obsessed with the Carnegie “power of positive thinking” malarkey. Magical thinking.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well now we know why Trump keeps pushing this. He has a stake in the company. He has an interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes the drug. Like they say, follow the money. Oh, and major republican donors and Wilbur Ross have major stakes in the company. Silly us, we thought he just suggested it because he wanted to save lives.

Nice try.

The desperation is embarrassing.

I wonder if the NYTimes will do a follow up outlining just how little Trump could profit off this drug.
Yeah, right.

And, it's my understanding that the company in which Trump owns stock doesn't even sell the drug in the US. Hasn't since 2013 and it is currently donating the drug in France.

“In mid-March, a cryptocurrency investor, a law school graduate and a self-described philosopher found each other on Twitter. They discussed their hopes that a little-known drug called hydroxychloroquine could help contain the accelerating coronavirus outbreak.

Two days later, two of them published a paper about the drug’s potential on Google Docs, falsely claiming the imprimatur of two major universities and the National Academy of Sciences.

What started as a Twitter discussion on March 11 among strangers led to a thinly sourced Google Doc published on March 13 that grabbed the attention of Silicon Valley elite and conservative media. Within days, the paper scored one of its authors a spot on on both Laura Ingraham’s and Tucker Carlson’s Fox News shows. The day after Carlson’s show, Trump made his first mention of hydroxychloroquine from the White House podium. After that, presidential allies like personal attorney Rudy Giuliani started trying to dig up any information they could find.

Now, Trump is vowing to distribute millions of doses of the drug to people through the country’s strategic national stockpile, even though there’s no conclusive research that the drug works for coronavirus.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/twitter-thread-launched-trump-coronavirus-drug-170557

Trump said anyone who wants a test, can get a test. So where are the tests?

It’s not just that Trump’s disclosures are not credible, it’s the side dealing and potential cronyism and profiteering.
Still I’m not convinced he is cashing in on an unproven drug for personal financial gain. He needs this to be a “cure” so he can restart the economy. He needs to be able to point to this pill and say, “ see it’s fixed. Problem solved. I’m the best. No one has ever done what I’ve done. People are saying I’ve done a tremendous job. Bigly.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well now we know why Trump keeps pushing this. He has a stake in the company. He has an interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes the drug. Like they say, follow the money. Oh, and major republican donors and Wilbur Ross have major stakes in the company. Silly us, we thought he just suggested it because he wanted to save lives.

Nice try.

The desperation is embarrassing.

Trump's disclosure? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe because of stories like this

https://abc7.com/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-hydroxychloroquine/6079864/

How many patients did he treat? Any side effects?

And I’m still going to trust Fauci’s opinion over an urgent care doctor’s anecdotal experiences.

You would trust Fauci’s opinion if he told you to jump into an erupting volcano as long as Trump was saying run away.

The thing is I trust Dr Fauci NOT to tell us to jump into an erupting volcano, while Trump WOULD if he thought he could make some $ from it. That is the whole freaking thing. I *trust* Dr Fauci to give good, sound information. I trust Trump to try to make a buck off whatever stupid fcking scheme pops into his idiot head.

This is where it matters how you've spoken and what sort of trust you've built up over years, or decades. Trump has done nothing to make us think he is a trustworthy conveyor of true information.

Wow. The tautology of it all.

It's not tautological to take a person's credibility into account when deciding how much weight to give their health recommendations. Trump presents as a used car salesman who will literally say anything to get that lemon off his lot. And if he can fck your wife while you're signing the paperwork, all the better.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe because of stories like this

https://abc7.com/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-hydroxychloroquine/6079864/

How many patients did he treat? Any side effects?

And I’m still going to trust Fauci’s opinion over an urgent care doctor’s anecdotal experiences.

You would trust Fauci’s opinion if he told you to jump into an erupting volcano as long as Trump was saying run away.

The thing is I trust Dr Fauci NOT to tell us to jump into an erupting volcano, while Trump WOULD if he thought he could make some $ from it. That is the whole freaking thing. I *trust* Dr Fauci to give good, sound information. I trust Trump to try to make a buck off whatever stupid fcking scheme pops into his idiot head.

This is where it matters how you've spoken and what sort of trust you've built up over years, or decades. Trump has done nothing to make us think he is a trustworthy conveyor of true information.

Wow. The tautology of it all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe because of stories like this

https://abc7.com/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-hydroxychloroquine/6079864/

How many patients did he treat? Any side effects?

And I’m still going to trust Fauci’s opinion over an urgent care doctor’s anecdotal experiences.

You would trust Fauci’s opinion if he told you to jump into an erupting volcano as long as Trump was saying run away.

The thing is I trust Dr Fauci NOT to tell us to jump into an erupting volcano, while Trump WOULD if he thought he could make some $ from it. That is the whole freaking thing. I *trust* Dr Fauci to give good, sound information. I trust Trump to try to make a buck off whatever stupid fcking scheme pops into his idiot head.

This is where it matters how you've spoken and what sort of trust you've built up over years, or decades. Trump has done nothing to make us think he is a trustworthy conveyor of true information.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe because of stories like this

https://abc7.com/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-hydroxychloroquine/6079864/

How many patients did he treat? Any side effects?

And I’m still going to trust Fauci’s opinion over an urgent care doctor’s anecdotal experiences.

You would trust Fauci’s opinion if he told you to jump into an erupting volcano as long as Trump was saying run away.

Given Trump’s history of lying...

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Anonymous wrote:Well now we know why Trump keeps pushing this. He has a stake in the company. He has an interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes the drug. Like they say, follow the money. Oh, and major republican donors and Wilbur Ross have major stakes in the company. Silly us, we thought he just suggested it because he wanted to save lives.

Nice try.

The desperation is embarrassing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe because of stories like this

https://abc7.com/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-hydroxychloroquine/6079864/

How many patients did he treat? Any side effects?

And I’m still going to trust Fauci’s opinion over an urgent care doctor’s anecdotal experiences.

You would trust Fauci’s opinion if he told you to jump into an erupting volcano as long as Trump was saying run away.

Anonymous wrote:Well now we know why Trump keeps pushing this. He has a stake in the company. He has an interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes the drug. Like they say, follow the money. Oh, and major republican donors and Wilbur Ross have major stakes in the company. Silly us, we thought he just suggested it because he wanted to save lives.

Nice try.