CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

There's an interesting background to Trump's famously idiotic question about whether disinfectant could be injected into the body to clean the system of Covid.

It seems that conmen trying to sell bleach as a cure for autism had repurposed it as a Covid cure. That wasn't too hard as they were  promoting it on the basis that "it can cure 99% of all illnesses including cancer, malaria, HIV/Aids as well as autism". Man, he should be up for the Nobel Prize. Makes you wonder what the 1% of illnesses it didn't treat were ...

So the chief conman, "Archbishop" Mark Grenon, had written to Trump before that infamous press conference and his band of 30 merry conmen had also been bombarding him with letters and had reached out to his aides:
Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week, The Guardian.

I'm not sure if he was the same guy who was mentioned in a doco about the tactics of Anti-Vaxxers. That guy was selling a nebuliser which converted the bleach into a mist so it could be inhaled. It, too, was spruiked as a cure for autism but was repurposed into a Covid cure. 

The "Archbishop" has been charged with offences in Florida and argued unsuccessfully that his con was protected as he was selling bleach through his "Church", Genesis II.

This possible basis for Trump asking such a profoundly stupid question at least provides some explanation for why he did it. But in true Trump form, it adds sleaze, conspiracy theory peddling and shameless pandering to the religious right & the far right.