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9:15Now PlayingDonald Trump has found a new kindred spirit in the form of a pastor/doctor who says the kinds of things that Trump and other Republicans love to hear. The doctor, Stella Immanuel, said in a viral video that has now been removed that masks are not necessary because hydroxychloroquine can cure Covid-19. Studies say the exact opposite, but that's actually one of the least troubling things that Dr. Immanuel has said in recent years. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
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Donald Trump has a new favorite doctor to turn to when it comes to getting information about coronavirus and COVID-19. And that doctor unfortunately is dr. Stella Immanuel. Now recently, dr. Immanuel, and a group of several other doctors, uh, put together by the tea party Patriots, which is a corporate funded organization, uh, tea party Patriots got these doctors together, took them to Washington, DC, to the steps of the U S Supreme court, where these doctors gave little speeches about why everything that we think we're doing for our safety is totally wrong. For example, dr. Immanuel got up there and she told us that one, you don't have to wear masks. Nope, don't do anything. Don't worry about wearing the mask because we have a cure for COVID-19 and that cure just happened to be Donald Trump's favorite drug hydroxychloroquine. That is the drug that Donald Trump has been promoting for months with absolutely no science to back up his claims because here's the thing ever since Trump started promoting it, ever since the pandemic began, uh, people have been looking into it because we've been throwing everything at this virus to see what we could find to beat it.
Trump's has hydroxychloroquine is the way to go. Well, there have been plenty of studies on it. A lot of the studies say that it's actually not effective whatsoever. The FDA themselves say it's not effective. Do not take it for this. And many of the studies have actually had to be halted halfway through because most of the people, uh, that they were studying, not most, but too many of the people that were in the clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine, uh, drop dead.
Okay. So they stopped.
They were running out of people to test it on. Cause everybody was dying. That's what hydroxychloroquine can do if you take it when you don't actually need it. And so dr. Stella Immanuel gets up there on the steps of the Supreme court. Nobody paid attention to it while it was happening. But then the video was posted online, got tens of millions of views on Monday alone, retweeted by Donald Trump, jr. Who then got suspended for 12 hours from Twitter for retweeting that retweeted by the president himself,
Doctor,
Your Stella Immanuel has made her way into Donald Trump's heart by doing a little more than promoting the, a dubious treatment that Trump himself has been promoting for months. But Trump needs to, uh, maybe, maybe sit back a little and think about the person he's, retweaking the person that he's holding up and saying, see, she says it, and she's a medical professional. Now let's back up on that claim just a minute here. Dr. Stella Immanuel is licensed to go practice medicine here in the United States. She did not. However, get her medical degree from the United States.
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