Fox News and Donald Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine despite zero clinical trials and next to no evidence of its effectiveness, but boy, were they insistent.

Seems almost certain Trump wanted BARDA to buy huge quantities of HCQ for the national stockpile BARDA supplies. That would have been a windfall for Trump’s buddies. BARDA’s Director Rick Bright pushed back and was sidelined. Here’s Bright’s statement pic.twitter.com/94tvdaz7WT

— Colby 🆘 (@21sts1) April 23, 2020