Trump is boosting another miracle COVID-19 ‘cure,’ this one brought to him by the My Pillow guy – By Hunter (Daily Kos) / Aug 17 2020
Well, it’s happening again: It appears that Donald Trump, one of the most mushbrained people in America, is latching on to a new “miracle cure” for the deadly COVID-19 pandemic with no evidence of its effectiveness. Like the last time around, it appears he chose this particular miracle cure after it was talked up by Grifters With Access to His Office, which is how all federal government business is now run.
Specifically, the My Pillow guy. Trump is hitching his wagon to a new miracle cure touted by the right-wing Fox-famous Tucker-Carlson-sponsoring My Pillow guy. It’s 2020, there’s a worldwide pandemic, Trump is taking medical advice from the My Pillow guy, and we’re all going to die.
According to Axios’ Jonathan Swan, My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell has been talking up a new “dietary supplement” extracted from the toxic plant oleander after buying a financial stake in the company that makes it. (Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is also boosting the product in yet another reminder that ex-surgeons can dive into crackpotism as eagerly as anyone else.) My Pillow Guy arranged a meeting between himself, Carson, Trump, and the CEO of the company involved to advocate for the maybe-drug, maybe-supplement as a potential COVID-19 cure.
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