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Trump, ever the salesman, is peddling dangerous cures for coronavirus

--No seriously he’s doing a great job--

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Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 7:36 AM ET, Fri April 24, 2020

(CNN) Roll up for Donald Trump's old West traveling medicine show.

He's marketed steaks and real estate, board games and vodka, but nothing the incorrigible salesman has tried to hawk measures up to his latest routine as he speculated on a possible new cure for Covid-19.
'Fact check: Trump dangerously suggests sunlight and ingesting disinfectants could help cure coronavirus"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/politics/fact-check-coronavirus-briefing-april-23/index.html

For most of his life as a pitchman, Trump has only had his own reputation on the line. But now, in the middle of a generational health crisis, lives are at stake.

In an eye-popping moment, Trump doubled down on his claim that sunlight and the festering humidity of high summer could purge the virus in his latest grab for a game-changer therapy.

Then, he asked aides on camera whether zapping patients with light or injecting disinfectant into the lungs to clean sick patients from inside could cure them of the disease.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-disinfectant-sunlight-science/index.html