@mattblaze I strongly agree that he was criminal, corrupt, and incompetent, but so far as I can tell he did not in fact ever urge the public to inject bleach.

(He _did_ urge his scientific advisors to investigate whether injecting disinfectant might be effective against COVID-19. Which is a stupid idea, and even if it hadn't been a public press briefing wasn't the place to raise it. But it was definitely "someone should investigate whether this works" not "the general public should start doing this", and I think the distinction matters.)

@gjm Nope. He made that statement publicly and prominently, undercutting non-crackpot measures.

There is no way to defend this.

@mattblaze @gjm

This. Stop trying to rationalize truly fucking abysmal behavior, actions, and malfeasance.

@NosirrahSec @mattblaze I'm not trying to rationalize it. It was irrational and stupid and dangerous. It just wasn't the _specific_ irrational and stupid and dangerous thing that Matt said.

I am very much in favour of reminding people of the awful things that Donald Trump has said and done, and of the awful things he is likely to do if elected again. I think this will be more effective if we only do it for awful things he actually has said and done, both because it's better to tell the truth than not and because it's bad to give his supporters an excuse to respond with "no, he didn't do that" _and ignore the fact that he actually did something similar which was also very bad_.