Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama appear in a new campaign video that Joe Biden has released. While the video purports to be live, it has an absurd amount of jump cuts, which comically indicate that it took several tries to get Biden’s performance perfect.
However, putting that aside, the video made it quite evident how desperate Joe Biden is, attempting to save his collapsing campaign by repeating long-disproved charges about Trump.
In the video, Biden asserts, “This is the person who doesn’t care about science and reason.” “Recall that Donald Trump advised us to inject ourselves with bleach during the epidemic. He assured me that doing so would not cause any concern.”
This assertion has a major flaw in that it was never true.
The following interaction from the White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing in April 2020 is when the bogus allegation first surfaced. After discussing several COVID-19 therapies, including UV light treatments, during the briefing, Trump said, “And then I see the disinfection, where it knocks it out in a minute.” For one minute. Is it possible for us to perform a similar procedure, such as an inside injection or a near-cleaning? Because, as you can see, it enters the lungs and severely damages them. Thus, it would be worthwhile to investigate that. Consequently, you will need to consult medical professionals. Nonetheless, it seems intriguing to me.
It’s clear from this that he was investigating the viability of utilizing disinfectants inside rather than promoting the ingestion or injection of bleach. He underlined the need for medical supervision and advised against trying to recreate these steps on one’s own.
Thus, where did Trump’s bogus report that advised people to inject themselves with bleach originate? “The president addressed the concept of cleansers, like bleach and isopropyl alcohol you indicated,” a reporter questioned Bill Bryan, the acting undersecretary of science and technology for the Department of Homeland Security, later in the same briefing. Is there any circumstance that cannot be implanted in an individual?
Trump said, “It wouldn’t be through injection.” We’re discussing essentially sanitizing and cleansing an area. It may or may not be effective. However, if it’s on a stationary item, it undoubtedly has a significant impact.
Thus, it was a reporter, not Trump, who made the connection between injections and bleach. Actually, it was Trump who gave the reporter the correction.
Biden, flanked by Obama and Pelosi, again peddles the debunked lie that "Trump told us to inject ourselves with bleach." pic.twitter.com/tJKLIzAwmD
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 23, 2024
Naturally, the bogus article made headlines in a number of media publications, indicating that the mainstream media didn’t give a damn. Furthermore, a number of media fact-checkers repeated this falsehood, which naturally made it simpler for Joe Biden to continue stating the incorrect assertion during the campaign. Instead of doing a fact-check on the Trump charge, Snopes chose only a portion of the quotation to call it “accurate attribution.” “Trump did certainly conjecture that an injection of the type may have a therapeutic impact,” according to NBC News’ own fact check. When CNN arrived at the conclusion that Biden “overstated some of the facts,” it may have gone the closest to acknowledging that Biden’s claims that Trump had instructed individuals to inject bleach were untrue.
The only fact check I could locate that explicitly stated that Trump had never advocated for people to inject themselves with bleach in order to combat COVID-19 was an August 2021 Newsweek fact check that categorically classified the allegation as false.
Put another way, Biden has nothing to run on, so he is pulling up old falsehoods.
Author: Blake Ambrose
