Two months ago we got a good laugh out of Trump re-tweeting a quack doctor, Stella Immanuel, promoting hydroxychloroquine as a miracle cure for Covid-19. Just as he has for months. Something so whacked that the normally hands off twitter felt a need to do some cleanup on both his and his son’s account.
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Of course this type of misinformation (including her and the President’s disinformation about masks and social distancing) is no laughing matter and has cost lives. But this is something Trump has been so insistent on that Trump has pushed for the FCC to allow government censorship of these platforms that have pushed back against his science free whims of fancy. Trump even went as far as denying a Republican renomination to the FCC just over a month ago because he was seen as hostile towards Trump’s efforts to gain more control over them.
The White House withdrawal of O’Reilly’s nomination comes after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai separately on Monday announced the agency would open public comment on an NTIA petition (PDF) for a rulemaking under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which governs legal liability about content on the internet.
That relates to an executive order issued in May by President Trump directing the Commerce Department to petition the FCC, asking for regulations on moderation practices for social media.
Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has said on Twitter about the petition that “the FCC shouldn’t be the President’s speech police.”
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Trump of course decided rather than getting the treatment he has been urging other Covid-19 patients to demand from their doctors because they “have nothing to lose” to try a cocktail of some of the most aggressive conventional treatments normally reserved for the sickest of patients. Whether this is because Trump is sicker than the White House has let on or whether Trump is insisting on potentially dangerous aggressive treatments he shouldn’t be getting is anyone’s guess. We can only hope someone knows what they are doing.
Someone who of course believes Trump’s doctors do not know what they are doing is the aforementioned Dr. Stella Immanuel who evidently believes Trump was actually taking hydroxychloroquine as he claimed last May.
A doctor notorious for claiming hydroxychloroquine is a "cure" for COVID-19 has denounced White House doctors for not giving President Donald Trump the drug to treat his infection.
Dr. Stella Immanuel, who gained fame in July after Trump retweeted a video showing her touting the malaria drug, expressed outrage in a series of tweets on Friday, condemning the medical decisions of "bozo doctors" who surrounded the president after he tested positive for COVID-19.
"Instead of giving the president of the United States a known safe drug," Immanuel tweeted. "They gave him some experimental antibody stupidness. This is so dumb. Please potus family you guys wake up. Give him HCQ, Zpack & zinc asap."
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She prescribes for the President the age old remedy of punching his doctor in the face.
But she offers hope for the rest of the White House staff offering them her expert medical services.
This all seems silly. Except it is the President who brought her to the public’s attention as he promoted far right groups “resisting” masks and social distancing. In her case it was her involvement in a right-wing astroturf group of fringe medical doctors called America’s Frontline Doctors to counter the sober recommendations of the vast majority of the medical community at a press conference by “Tea Party Patriots.”
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America deserves better. And the President when his back is against the wall obviously has different expectations for himself than he does for the rest of us.