You don't need to take a "shot" at a politician when that politician himself has done everything he can to create a public health catastrophe, including this politicization of HCQ. Pushing simplistic baseless claims undermines slower rational decision making. It's similar to "don't think of the elephant" - rather than giving every possibility a similar prior, it creates an undeserved focus on one particular approach which ends up hampering the decision making process with noisy overshoots in both directions, swamping the legitimate signal.