Trumpland isn't giving up

They've got 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to get rid of.

Vice President Pence on Tuesday met with doctors from the viral video that social media platforms have removed for spreading misleading information about coronavirus.

The doctors, who are members of the group America’s Frontline Doctors, posted on Twitter promoting the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which has not been proven to effectively treat COVID-19, to Pence during a meeting.

Pence's meeting with the doctors came after the group’s physicians spoke in a Monday video in front of the Supreme Court building, claiming that masks are not needed to prevent COVID-19 spread, and that hydroxychloroquine was a cure.

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Simone Gold, the leader of America’s Frontline Doctors, tweeted that the doctors were requesting the administration help in “empowering doctors to prescribe hydroxychloroquine without political obstruction.”

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The most prominent physician in the video, Stella Immanuel, who has made unfounded claims about alien DNA being used in medical treatment, was not present at the meeting with Pence.

  The Hill

At least THAT was smart.

Another doctor, James Todaro, posted that the group is “doing everything to restore the power of medicine back to doctors.”

“Doctors everywhere should be able to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine without repercussions or obstruction,” he tweeted.

Why do they need help from the federal government? No one is standing over doctors to prevent them from prescribing the drug. (Yet.)  I think Team Trump contacted these doctors to put them up to this BS, and I think this confirms it...

Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, the group that promoted Monday’s press conference, also confirmed the meeting on Twitter.

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The vice president’s schedule listed the meeting as a session with “practicing physicians on COVID-19,” CNN reported. It’s not immediately clear how many patients the doctors have treated.

Both the Tea Party Patriots and America’s Frontline Doctors are advocating against any additional economic shutdowns to prevent coronavirus spread.

Any proper meeting by a vice president of practicing physicians to discus Covid-19 would have included doctors who are against prescribing hydroxychloroquine and for economic shutdowns.

"With hydroxy, all I want to do is save lives," Trump said. "All I want to do is save lives."

And he's going to blame the disastrous loss of lives on Democrats and scientific experts, saying they're blocking him from doing it.

By the way, when was America's Frontline Doctors formed?

Dr. Simone Gold is a doctor and lawyer in Los Angeles who publicly takes credit as the founder of “America’s Frontline Doctors,” a group whose website was set up 12 days ago, and amusingly appears to be down right now.

Gold has been a regular on the right-wing media circuit during the pandemic, appearing on Fox News on May 21, arguing that patients are being harmed by the shutdowns taking place across the country.

Gold also appeared on PragerU’s YouTube channel back in May, insisting that more people will die from the lockdowns than from the coronavirus pandemic, and has done YouTube videos for the Tea Party Patriots Foundation, the nonprofit co-founded by Jenny Beth Martin.

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In short, [America’s Frontline Doctors are] pro-Trump ideologues who are pushing unproven science during a pandemic that’s so far infected over 4.3 million Americans and killed more than 148,000.

Strangely enough, “America’s Frontline Doctors” also appear to have ties to the Trump regime. In fact, one person who spoke at the press conference on Monday was at the White House for a roundtable discussion just a couple of weeks ago and Trump promoted multiple videos from the group on his Twitter account. It’s also no surprise that many of them have appeared on Fox News in recent months, the president’s favorite TV channel.

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Below, we have a rundown of some of the people who spoke at yesterday’s press conference for “America’s Frontline Doctors” and how they make their living during this pandemic. Most are actually doctors, but not all of them are currently practicing medicine—like the guy who currently makes his money promoting bitcoin.

  Gizmodo

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