Speaker Nancy Pelosi returned to a lie about President Trump encouraging people to drink Clorox on Thursday while adding that he wants the same fate for the U.S. Constitution.
The California Democrat chided reporters for not being more focused on Mr. Trump’s comments about conceding the election in a hypothetical scenario when the erroneous coronavirus narrative was addressed.
“I don’t know why the press doesn’t make more of this, to be very honest with you,” Mrs. Pelosi said. “If he says that people swallow Clorox, we hear about it for the rest of our lives, but he’s trying to have the Constitution of the United States swallow Clorox — I appreciate these questions all of you have this morning, I guess provoked by the arrogance and the disregard for the Constitution of the president’s statement last night.”
The president made national headlines in April while referring to ultraviolet light therapy as a possible option for quickly healing coronavirus patients.
“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it,” Mr. Trump said during a press conference with medical experts. “And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting.”
Mr. Trump then, within the context of using UV light as a disinfectant, continued.
“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute,” he said. “One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. … The whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, that’s — that’s pretty powerful.”
Regarding the 2020 presidential election, Mr. Trump told reporters that “we’re going to have to see what happens” when the time comes.
The Republican has repeatedly said that he is concerned about voter fraud in states that are attempting to hastily adopt vote-by-mail procedures.
“He says the people swallow Clorox and we hear about it for the rest of our lives but he’s trying to have the constitution of the United States swallow Clorox.” @SpeakerPelosi on @realDonaldTrump refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power following the Nov. 3 election. pic.twitter.com/ecp3yIPjVJ
— Vladimir Duthiers (@vladduthiersCBS) September 24, 2020
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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