Dear mainstream media: if and when @realDonaldTrump starts his #COVID19 victory lap ("I stared it down and beat it back!"), please remember what actually happened. When his own life was in danger, ... /1
... he ditched all the conspiracy bunk he told his cult to use (HCQ, azithromycin), and stuff he forced the FDA to approve for political purposes (convalescent plasma), and latched on to the best science advice he could find. /2
Fascinating, this. The scientist he sidelined, Dr. Anthony Fauci, had trashed Trump's dangerous hyping of HCQ, but consistently pointed to remdesivir and mAb's as holding the most promise, the first things tried by our frightened president. /3
Peter Navarro — Trump's racist trade advisor; the father of "China Virus"; the father of the hydroxychloroquine conspiracy movement — has been conspicuously quiet since Friday, and won't even take and report a COVID test for necessary contact tracing (see NYT tracing page). /5
So the con continues. HCQ was for suckers. Watch Trump say in the days ahead that he probably didn't even need those silly pills and shots the docs insisted on.

In Trump/Navarro/Atlas We Trust!

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