That night, Fox News continued its drumbeat for hydroxychloroquine as Tucker Carlson brought the same lawyer from Ingraham’s show onto his program. The next day, Trump took matters into his own hands. The doctors might not be willing to tell Americans to take hydroxychloroquine, but the president was. “We are very excited about, specifically, what we talked about with the chloroquine,” Trump said at his televised briefing. “I think it could be something really incredible.” Adopting Ingraham’s term, he said, “it could be a game changer.”[25] Asked by a reporter the next day if there was
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