Trump selects doctor who promoted unproven covid treatment to helm U.S. cancer initiative - The Washington Post

Harvey Risch, an epidemiologist respected for his cancer research, promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic, despite a lack of evidence it worked against covid...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/17/trump-risch-cancer-covid

U.S. settles scientist's whistleblower complaint about Trump COVID-19 response | Reuters

 … Bright said he was ousted from BARDA in part because he resisted efforts to push the drug hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19, something advocated by Trump himself...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-settles-scientists-whistleblower-complaint-about-trump-covid-19-response-2021-08-09/

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Trump bypassed state officials to distribute hydroxychloroquine to pharmacies - The Washington Post

...The White House decision to set aside the mandatory safety controls put in place by the Food and Drug Administration fueled one of the most disputed initiatives in the administration's response to the pandemic: the distribution of millions of ineffective, potentially dangerous pills from a federally controlled cache of drugs called the Strategic National Stockpile...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/31/trump-hydroxychloroquine-stockpile-pharmacies/

Stella Immanuel’s theories about the relationship between demons, illness and sex have a long history

President Donald Trump has a new favorite doctor. On July 27, the president and his son Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted a viral video featuring Dr. Stella Immanuel, in which the Houston pediatrician rejected the effectiveness of wearing face masks for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat the disease. Journalists quickly dug into Immanuel’s background and found that she’s also claimed that having sex with demons can cause illnesses like cysts and endometriosis. ....
https://theconversation.com/stella-immanuels-theories-about-the-relationship-between-demons-illness-and-sex-have-a-long-history-143587

Caught Lying About Baseball Invite, President Calls Twitter Criticism “Illegal” and Endorses Demon-Sperm Doctor - Slate

It's this week's Trump Vincibility Watch, and the vincibility is still highly robust.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/trump-vincibility-watch-yankees-twitter-corruption-demon-sperm.html

Trump's bad bet on hydroxychloroquine leaves U.S. sitting on millions of worthless pills

Four months after Donald Trump first began pushing the idea that his “common sense” said that hydroxychloroquine was a “game changer” in treating COVID-19, the whole waste of time, effort, and lives has come to a sorry end with the FDA pulling the emergency authorization for use of the malaria drug as a coronavirus treatment. Trump repeatedly flogged the drug in daily coronavirus task force meetings (back when Trump wasn’t dismissing the pandemic completely) with the catch phrase “What do you have to lose?” Trump even claimed that he was actually taking the drug himself, in a manner never approved by the FDA, to prevent catching COVID-19.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/6/18/1954065/-Trump-s-bad-bet-on-hydroxychloroquine-leaves-U-S-sitting-on-millions-of-worthless-pills

Trump Misleads on Hydroxychloroquine, Again - FactCheck.org

In revealing that he's taking the drug to prevent COVID-19, the president distorted the facts. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trump-misleads-on-hydroxychloroquine-again/

Drug promoted by Trump as coronavirus ‘game changer’ increasingly linked to deaths - The Washington Post

As the president continues to pitch hydroxychloroquine, several medical experts have called for the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its emergency use authorization.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/drug-promoted-by-trump-as-coronavirus-game-changer-increasingly-linked-to-deaths/2020/05/15/85d024fe-96bd-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html

Schumer calls on VA to explain use of unproven drug on vets

The Senate’s top Democrat on Sunday called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to explain why it allowed the use of an unproven drug on veterans for the coronavirus, saying patients may have been put at unnecessary risk. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said the VA needs to provide Congress more information about a recent bulk order for $208,000 worth of hydroxychloroquine. President Donald Trump has heavily promoted the malaria drug, without evidence, as a treatment for COVID-19.
https://apnews.com/a2830445e55c6ea324e9a23e4c38f7c3

Top vaccine expert says he was fired for resisting Trump on hydroxychloroquine

A senior US government doctor who worked on the search for a coronavirus vaccine has claimed he was fired after resisting Donald Trump’s push to use the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.  Rick Bright was this week ousted as director of the US health department’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or Barda, and as the deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/rick-bright-trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus

Study of Hydroxychloroquine, Trump-Promoted Coronavirus Drug, Finds More Deaths

A government-funded analysis found hydroxychloroquine did not keep sick veterans alive or even off ventilators and was tied to more deaths.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/study-of-hydroxychloroquine-trump-promoted-coronavirus-drug-finds-more-deaths

This Expert Will Cure Your Excitement for Hydroxychloroquine – Mother Jones

For weeks, President Trump has touted the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as an effective treatment for COVID-19, which has killed nearly 36,000 Americans and infected more than 680,000. On Tuesday this week, the president referred to HCQ, typically used to treat patients with auto-immune disorders like lupus, as “pretty amazing…I haven’t heard a bad story.” In fact, the president hasn’t ruled out an HCQ regiment for himself. During an April 5 press conference, he said, “I may take it. And I’ll have to ask my doctors about that, but I may take it.” The medical community is more circumspect.....
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/04/this-expert-will-cure-your-excitement-for-hydroxychloroquine/

In a Texas nursing home, Republicans are experimenting on dementia patients to support Trump

Starting with just the second self-praise session / coronavirus rally replacement he staged on national television, Donald Trump has touted the drug chloroquine as wonder cure for COVID-19. Over and over, despite being aware that his claims were unproven, despite being aware that people had died from taking the drug, despite being warned that his hucksterism was resulting in a shortage for people who needed the drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and, oh yeah, malaria, Trump has insisted he has a “hunch” that chloroquine and the closely related hydroxychloroquine are a “game changer” in the fight against COVID-19.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/4/11/1936426/-In-a-Texas-nursing-home-Republicans-are-experimenting-on-dementia-patients-to-support-Trump

Trump’s Faulty Malaria-Coronavirus Connection - FactCheck.org

Falsely citing “studies,” President Donald Trump has suggested that there are few novel coronavirus cases in “malaria countries” because of the use of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. But no such studies exist, and the drug is not widely used for malaria in much of the world. ...
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/trumps-faulty-malaria-coronavirus-connection/

Novartis Responds to Social Media Criticism of Trump Administration Promoting Hydroxychloroquine

The pharmaceutical company Novartis responded to criticism leveled against it on social media on Monday about the drug hydroxychloroquine and the reason the president has touted it. Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company that is a major manufacturer of the drug told Newsweek the criticism was "without merit."
https://www.newsweek.com/michael-cohen-donald-trump-novartis-twitter-covid-19-1496291

Patients with autoimmune diseases running out of hydroxychloroquine

Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial drug that is also commonly used to treat a wide range of autoimmune ailments, including lupus and conditions such as juvenile dermatomyositis. But now supplies are running low across the country for patients such as Gleason who rely on the drug. As President Donald Trump has repeatedly and aggressively touted the drug as a potential cure for the novel coronavirus, hydroxychloroquine has been flying off the shelves at pharmacies. ....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/07/patients-with-autoimmune-diseases-running-out-of-hydroxychloroquine.html

Career health officials ‘warned’ not to contradict Trump on his favorite unproven COVID-19 drug: report – Raw Story

President Donald Trump keeps pushing the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, even though health experts have repeatedly warned him that there is not enough evidence to make a definitive call on its benefits for the disease. Even though Dr. Anthony Fauci has been outspoken in his skepticism of using hydroxychloroquine, Politico reports that other career health officials behind the scenes have “been warned not to publicly speak out and potentially contradict Trump,” even as they’ve raised concerns about “the risk to some Americans’ heart health and other complications” from taking the drug.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/career-health-officials-warned-not-to-contradict-trump-on-his-favorite-unproven-covid-19-drug-report/

Trump ‘personally’ pressured CDC, FDA, NIH to allow untested malaria drugs to be used to treat coronavirus: report – Raw Story

President Donald Trump personally intervened in the medical approval process, calling top officials from three of the nation’s leading federal government medical agencies to pressure them to allow drugs untested for use in treating the novel coronavirus to be used for that purpose. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-personally-pressured-cdc-fda-nih-to-allow-untested-malaria-drugs-to-be-used-to-treat-coronavirus-report/

Peter Navarro Attacked Fauci in Heated Situation Room Debate Over Science of Trump-Touted Drug, Report Says

Donald Trump’s top trade adviser Peter Navarro got into a heated debate over the weekend in the White House’s Situation Room after the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, questioned his science over the use of the yet-unproven malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. Navarro, who is not officially part of the federal task force to fight the pandemic, used a stack of documents as a prop to push the drug’s potential, which Fauci argued was not real scientific data.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/navarro-attacked-fauci-in-heated-situation-room-debate-over-trump-touting-hydroxychloroquine-report-says