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Trump's behavior does not justify the media attempting to tell me what to think by misrepresenting nearly everything with deliberate spin. This isn't about white knighting, this is about holding the media accountable for it's total lack of objectivity. The media should not be choosing sides or telling people what to think.

In fact Trump merely tweeted that HCQ was promising - what was far more dangerous was the spin from the media and subsequent rush to show that HCQ was dangerous/ineffective.

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But he didn't just tweet that it was promising and drop it. He said it many times, and then made the claim that he himself was taking it on live TV and then further doubled down on that claim. He spun it himself.

Um. No. The press took the bait .

But that doesn't match the "In fact Trump merely tweeted that HCQ was promising" of the person I was responding to.

Is it media spinning a simple fact, or some sort of presidential war with the media that uses bait and ploys?

It's a petty game that both sides are engaging in, but one side is a singular person who is currently the "Leader of the free world". It's bizarre to me that people shrug off his behavior as if it's ok for him to be so petty and childish while wielding such immense power.

>https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1241367239...

"...have a real chance of if being a game changer"

There is absolutely nothing incorrect about this post. And what's worse, while the media (and left leaning doctors) were amplifying papers like the OP, they ignored the positive studies and set back the entire pandemic effort by turning public opinion against a promising drug.

It is a dereliction of social duty for the media to act in such a dangerously partisan manner. They owe society better for the power that they are allowed to wield.

That's dishonest to link a single tweet and act as though that's all the claims he's ever made about it. Here's a single press conference[1], which isn't nearly the extent of it, and doesn't include his claims he's taking it himself, but does include a "What do you have to lose?" argument.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/trump-hydroxychloroquine...

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