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The problem wasn't that Trump encouraged trying it, but that he clearly exaggerated what we knew about its effects and continued to do so for a long time even after having been confronted about it.

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Trumps history of exaggeration goes before and anyone sane accounts for it.

I can personally discount everything he says, that doesn't make it any less legitimate to say that the President of the United States shouldn't hold press conferences in which he over-hypes the proven effectiveness of certain drugs during a pandemic.

Otherwise anyone can just claim anything whenever they want without any proof whatsoever.

One must live in the world as it is, not as we wish it would be. Thus we need to consider actions, words and results separately.

Independent of whether that is actually right, where did I consider them to be connected in this discussion? I'm not even inferring a political motive, I'm just stating that it is a dumb thing to say.

So everyone, including frightened elderly people, is supposed to have a prior that the president is a liar and should be ignored, and thus it is acceptable for Trump to say what he wants? That's a frankly bizarre approach.

It’s almost funny that the best that Trump supporters can come up with these days is “but everyone knows he has no clue and lies a lot”.

It's like they think we don't remember hearing about how he was the only honest, incorruptible candidate in the field because he was self-funded and "said what he thought," rather than "talking like a politician." Or how his competence as a businessman and hard-as-nails negotiator was worth more than any amount of political expertise.

We don't even hear about four-dimensional chess or "draining the swamp" anymore.

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