Posted on 05/23/2020 7:11:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump began his week with a staggering admission. Seemingly off the cuff, he announced that he was taking the drug hydroxychloroquine.
What followed was a public debate strange even by present standards. Was the president telling the truth, or was he lying, in a sly provocation, to annoy reporters who have fetishized his recurring promotion of the drug?
The evidence that the president was lying was strong. His lips were moving, for one thing. For another, he was vague and even self-contradictory about how long he’d been taking the drug and why. A statement issued later by his doctor was meant to serve as a confirmation, but never explicitly asserted that he had prescribed the drug for the president. And Trump is famously squeamish about ingesting foreign substances. A man who says he’s never allowed an intoxicant to pass his lips doesn’t seem like the sort of person who would submit his body as a test tube in a one-off nonclinical trial of a controversial drug.
A strong case for the skeptics!
And yet I have come to take the president at his word. Trump has a jumbo-size tolerance for risk. As a businessman, he was a high-wire act, swinging from one bankruptcy and defaulted loan to the next with scarcely a glance at the abyss yawning below him.
His diet of taco bowls and Quarter Pounders and gobbets of ketchup washed away in rivers of Diet Coke is what you’d expect from an orphan boy with a bit of pocket money. He refuses any exercise more salubrious than stepping into and out of a golf cart. Maskless in the White House, he inhales unfiltered the vapors of the yes-men who surround him. With unsettling regularity, the man tempts fate, his own and ours.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Any particular reason to believe he didn’t? He said he will be stopping it in a couple of days so he probably took it for two weeks following the Navy valet being diagnosed with Covid.
I didn’t realize Andrew Ferguson was a Never-Trumper.
Back in the day, he used to be a pretty good conservative journalist.
I take it the author has Trump Derangement Syndrome. The Atlantic is just Johnny come lately to the liberal media. The article talks less about the drug and more about bankruptcy, Diet Coke, and lack of exercise.
Trump, always the master troll, keeps the morons wrapped around the axle like no other.
The leftist press is despicable. The Kenyan Usurper was never treated with anything near this level of disrespect by anyone.
Sounds like Andrew Ferguson needs some “alone time”.
The president lives in his brain rent free.
Pointless conjecture by a Trunp hater. Waste of time.
You must always think first....... Barack Obama is black.
All else flows from that statement
And that folks, is how he became a BILLIONAIRE.
It’s obvious that he didn’t take the drug.
He would be dead if he had. /s
Ferguson is channeling his inner 2nd Grade Mean Girl. Some thick snark he’s spewing into the mirror here. Egads.
And this crap sandwich passes for analysis and opinion????
The Atlantic is just Johnny come lately to the liberal”
Huh? They have been among the worst of the left wing rags for many years.
Something The Atlantic never asked about 0bama...
Back in the day, [Ferguson] used to be a pretty good conservative journalist.
I recall that, too. Maybe he's not straight, and they compromised him to make him see the dark.
Or the American Spectator wasn't paying enough, and he needed a new gig.
Either way, he just writes like an old drunk now.
] After the close of The Weekly Standard, David Brooks called Ferguson “the greatest political writer of my generation.
No indication at any of his work locations that he has ever been a conservative
What a non-sensical piece of anti-Trump bile.
Where is the News? The media is 95% opinions.
An entire story spun out of nothing!
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