Joe Biden built his 2020 campaign on the lie that former President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.”
Now, as president, and as his re-election prospects dim because of his dismal performance, Biden is recycling another lie: That Trump told people to drink bleach during the early stages of the pandemic.
Biden, whose history of near-reflexive lying dates back over his entire political career, posted a social media video on Sunday discussing the Affordable Care Act, the legislation that created Obamacare.
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Former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flank Biden
Trump, Biden said, “doesn’t care about science and reason. Remember: During the pandemic, Donald Trump told us to inject ourselves with bleach. He said there’s nothing to worry about if you do that.”
It wasn’t the only time Biden recently pushed this fib.
At a fundraiser in Houston on Thursday, he reportedly told the crowd, “Remember when he said inject bleach? I think he must’ve done it.”
But, of course, none of that is true.
Even the left-wing “fact-checkers” at PolitiFact declared Biden’s comment “mostly false” when he pushed it as a candidate in 2020.
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At the moment at issue in 2020, Trump was asked about experimental treatments for COVID-19.
“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it,” Trump said. “And then I said, ‘Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.’ And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?”
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it (COVID) gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful,” Trump added.
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When a staffer was asked if the procedure meant actually injecting disinfectants into COVID-19 patients, Trump replied, “It wouldn’t be through injections, almost a cleaning and sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work, but it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object.”
In July 2020, PolitiFact responded to Biden’s assertion that Trump said “maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay.”
“Trump did not explicitly recommend ingesting a disinfectant like bleach,” PolitiFact reported.
“Biden said Trump said drinking bleach could help fight the coronavirus. Trump did not specifically recommend ingesting disinfectants, but he did express interest in exploring whether disinfectants could be applied to the site of a coronavirus infection inside the body, such as the lungs. We rate Biden’s claim Mostly False.”
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