29. suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID
Another falsehood. From
https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=415836.0 :
Did President Trump really talk about injecting bleach as a treatment for Covid-19, as many media people claim? It's easily fact-checked, because the transcript of the relevant, April 23rd press conference is available online, https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference-transcript-april-23 . It was a long press conference, with multiple speakers from Trump's White House Corona Virus Task Force.
Starting around 29:46, Trump did talk about using UV light inside the body as a disinfectant. As far-fetched as that may sound, he was probably alluding to this device developed by Cedars-Sinai and licensed to Aytu BioScience for production, https://apnews.com/press-release/accesswire/b44f4531071e6204023f7b8e16f59d4b which can bring UV light inside patients' lungs. Note that this product announcement was made public three days before the April 23 press conference with Trump and Corona Virus Task Force members.
At about 34:05, a reporter - not Trump - made the first mention of bleach in the conference. Trump's response made clear they were talking about cleaning and disinfecting surfaces, not about injections.75. botched the COVID vaccine rollout,
In the real world, Trump funded and/or otherwise assisted the development of at least 8 potential Covid vaccines, 4 of which eventually received Emergency Use Authorization (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax, the latter two during LIEden's Presidency). In the real world, Trump contracted in July and August 2020, conditionally, the purchases of hundreds of millions of doses of several vaccine candidates, the condition being the receipt of FDA authorization. In the real world, Trump organized, as needed, vaccine production, fill-and-finish of the vaccines, and distribution logistics into the possession of the states, who then controlled administration of the vaccines.
https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=412701.079. claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear,
Lying by omission. Trump said, using his usual colorful language, that the epidemic would die down due to a combination of recovery immunity and vaccines ... which, guess what, has largely happened since late 2021 and early 2022. A text without context is a pretext, in this case, to lie.
97. pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID
Stupidly false, for at least three reasons.
First, HCQ and ivermectin are medicines, both, IIRC, being on the UN's list of essential medicines.
Second, there were early indications that both had some effectiveness against Covid.
Third, Trump funded the development and testing of multiple possible treatments for Covid, ranging from monoclonal antibodies (mab) to plasma from people who recovered from Covid, to antivirals such as remdesivir/Veklury.
119. suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public
In the real world, the remdesivir Trump received was approved for use against Covid by the FDA and was, then, available to the public. The mab treatment from Regeneron was, in October 2020, available to the public on a "compassionate use" basis, and a couple of months later received Emergency Use Authorization.