Yeah, in the strictest of terms, he didn't explicitly say it, you are right.
But he certainly implied it, and clearly his words were enough to give certain people the notion it's something that could help.
At this point, who cares? He said what he said and it had the effect that it did, even if he didn't intent for his supporters to start guzzling bleach.
And for those who did, as you suggest, it really doesn't matter what the President, or anyone else, said. If you're dumb enough to drink bleach, you've got what's coming to you.
**** way off with that ****, Tibs
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chloroquine-fish-tank-cleaner-murder-arizona/2020/04/30/id/965362/
Woman Who Gave Husband Fish Tank Cleaner Under Investigation for Murder
An Arizona woman who served her husband a fish tank cleaner-laced cocktail to ward off the coronavirus is under investigation for murder, police say.
The Washington Free Beacon reports the Mesa City Police Department’s homicide division has opened an investigation into the death of Gary Lenius.
The Free Beacon first reported that his wife, Wanda, served him soda mixed with fish tank cleaner in an attempt to prevent the coronavirus.
She told several news outlets that they decided to drink the deadly mixture after hearing President Donald Trump praise one of its ingredients, chloroquine phosphate. Gary Lenius died on March 22.
"We weren't big supporters of [Trump], but we did see that they were using it in China and stuff," she told the Free Beacon. "And we just made a horrible, tragic mistake.”
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OOF, right? ******* Trump! MangoMussolini! OrangeManBad! UnHiNgEd!!
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...thought-trump-said-it-cured-the-virus-n385983
Out of all the crazy news stories we’ve seen since the outbreak of COIVD-19 the Chinese virus, the craziest one by far has been the tale of Wanda Lenius, the Arizona woman who claims her husband Gary fatally poisoned himself with aquarium cleaner because he thought Trump told him it would cure the virus. None of the details add up, but the press ran with it anyway because it was an excuse to blame the guy who defeated Hillary Clinton. It was too good to check, so they didn’t. It was Jussie Smollett with a fish tank.
But what actually happened to Gary Lenius? Who was he, really? Was he a MAGA-hatted yahoo who just mindlessly did whatever Trump told him to do? Did he hear Trump say “chloroquine” on TV and start slugging down the stuff he used to clean his fish tank? Seriously?
If you’re skeptical, that makes you overqualified for most jobs in today’s “journalism.” This looks like a job for an actual reporter!
Alana Goodman, Washington Free Beacon:
In death, he has become famous as a cautionary tale about the risks of mindlessly following the armchair medical advice President Donald Trump has dispensed from the White House podium.
But friends of 68-year-old Gary Lenius, the Arizona man who passed away last month from drinking a fish tank cleaner that contained an ingredient, chloroquine phosphate, that Trump had touted as a potential coronavirus cure, say they are still struggling to understand what drove an engineer with an extensive science background to do something so wildly out of character…
“What bothers me about this is that Gary was a very intelligent man, a retired [mechanical] engineer who designed systems for John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa, and I really can’t see the scenario where Gary would say, ‘Yes, please, I would love to drink some of that Koi fish tank cleaner,'” one of his close friends told the Washington Free Beacon. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”
Read the whole thing.
I’m not saying Wanda Lenius is the Carole Baskin of tropical fish, but Gary definitely wasn’t the guy we saw depicted in the press. That is, before the press dropped the story, once their own embarrassment started to outweigh any potential harm to Trump. They didn’t care whether it was true, so most of them looked the other way when the story started smelling… well, fishy.
After learning more about Wanda, she does not strike me as a reliable narrator. Gary doesn’t seem like somebody who would do something like that, and his widow doesn’t seem like somebody I should trust when she claims he did something like that.
For example, the couple met while working at John Deere, where Gary was a mechanical engineer and Wanda was a temp who later became a full-time employee. After four years, Wanda went on long-term disability from the company because of “gender and age discrimination” she claimed she suffered. She sued the John Deere company, claiming she had rage-inducing PTSD that could be triggered just by seeing a John Deere sign.
Wanda was also charged with assaulting Gary in 2000, a few months after they were married.
Oh yeah, and also Wanda claims she and Gary both drank a lethal dose of fish-tank cleaner dissolved in a soft drink, and that Gary knew what he was drinking before he died.
This is a heroine of the #Resistance? Okey-doke.
Just because a story makes Trump look bad, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true. A story that confirms your priors may have happened, or it may not have happened. Being skeptical of outrageous claims is good, even if it might benefit somebody you hate.
But hey, champ, look on the bright side…
then there's this....
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/06/18/fish-tank-wife-toxicology-report-n2570896
Well, remember the Arizona couple who ingested fish tank cleaner because it sounded similar to hydroxychloroquine? It’s an anti-malarial drug that the liberal media automatically trashed because President Trump said it might be an effective therapeutic for COVID-19. This couple took chloroquine phosphate which is used to clean fish tanks. They ingested it by mixing it with soda. The husband died and his death is still part of an ongoing investigation investigated. The Washington Free Beacon reported that it was a homicide investigation. The publication interviewed several people who knew the couple, Wanda and Gary Lenius. It was reported that the couple had a rocky relationship, with Wanda engaging in verbal abuse against her husband. Gary dying from this is what raised the eyebrows of some friends who said, “What bothers me about this is that Gary was a very intelligent man, a retired [mechanical] engineer who designed systems for John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa, and I really can't see the scenario where Gary would say, ‘Yes, please, I would love to drink some of that Koi fish tank cleaner…it just doesn't make any sense."
Wanda also appeared to be not the biggest supporter of President Trump and had donated to Democrats:
"We weren't big supporters of [Trump], but we did see that they were using it in China and stuff," she said. "And we just made a horrible, tragic mistake."
Campaign finance records show that Wanda Lenius has given thousands of dollars to Democratic groups and candidates over the past two years, most recently to the 314 Action Fund. The group bills itself as the "pro-science resistance" and has criticized the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, holding up the Lenius case to slam the White House.
In the same interview, Wanda Lenius told the Free Beacon that her husband had been planning to schedule a doctor's appointment to have a leg injury looked at and the couple worried he might pick up coronavirus at the clinic. That's when, she said, she reached for the fish tank cleaner in her pantry. Her husband's response, she said, was, "Is it still good?"
Incredible. 37K retweets.
Now it seems increasingly likely that this woman killed her husband and it had little to do with Trump. She tried to use Trump as a scapegoat, and reporters like Heidi eagerly assisted her in promoting that narrative.
https://t.co/vKMfJXhCCM
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) April 29, 2020
??Her husband is dead & she's in the ICU after ingesting chloroquine:
"We saw Trump on TV -- every channel -- & all of his buddies and that this was safe," she said.
"Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."
She implored @VaughnHillyard: "Educate the people"
https://t.co/Vl94tIZcdw
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) March 23, 2020
So, when this tragic incident occurred, you bet the liberal media weaponized it to attack the president. It’s somehow the president’s fault that this knucklehead gave her husband a super lethal dose of this fish tank cleaner.
