Trump chose his words poorly, with a layman's enthusiasm for complex medical treatments. He did not come anywhere near telling anyone to shoot up with Lysol. Absolutely no one would think he had, if DNC Media was not aggressively manufacturing this narrative.
This entire cooked-up media storyline is equivalent to saying Barack Obama advocated invading and annexing Canada when he said there were 57 states. You can ding politicians for clumsy phrasing, slips of the tongue, or talking too much without putting words in their mouths.
Amazing how quickly DNC Media outlets stopped even trying to quote Trump verbatim and began swapping in more outrageous words instead of "disinfectant." They clearly knew they had to do some surgery on the quote to get the narrative they wanted.
You only have to go through another page or two of the transcript to see what Trump was talking about, but suddenly our Guardians of Truth, the gatekeepers of context, the only people qualified to tell the Whole Story, decided that was too much trouble.
They could have gotten a fair hit on Trump for riffing on complicated medical techniques, but that wouldn't be much of a story, would it? That would have just sounded like churlish nitpicking. Trump wasn't even entirely wrong to call the treatment in question "disinfectant."
So instead we got a manufactured media APB, blast headline news coverage of something TRUMP DID NOT SAY, based on taking a few seconds of his remarks completely and maliciously out of context - based on a phantom fear that some idiots will grab syringes and shoot up with Lysol.
And to date, the only people known to have acted so stupidly based on outrageous misinterpretation of something Trump said were a couple of rabid Trump-haters, one of whom *might* actually have murdered the other. Funny how we never hear about them any more.
This whole garbage story is the worst kind of Fake News: a false narrative blasted loudly enough to drown out truth. The goal is to make it "common knowledge" within 24 hours that Trump told people to inject themselves with Lysol. If everyone's talking about it, it MUST be true!
It's the "Play It Again, Sam" strategy of fake news. You get everyone talking about a story they didn't actually read, then you write more stories about the jokes and outraged reactions. Soon it's a surprising trivia question that Rick never said "Play it again, Sam."
There is no universe in which anyone who was not violently insane would have listened to that press conference and concluded Trump was telling them to drink bleach or inject themselves with Lysol. The media created that interpretation, and now they're pushing it hard, in unison.
Which returns us to the interesting question of whether DNC Media really believes its own political polls. This was a desperation play, easily disproven by anyone who spends a minute watching the misreported event. They don't have much credibility left to squander. /end
