'Some in the White House staff apparently can sleep at night by telling themselves it would be much worse if they weren't around. They may be right. But they remain complicit,' JohnAvlon writes about President Trump's disinfectant remarks. | CNNOpinion
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You don't need to be a doctor to know that it's dangerous to ingest or inject disinfectants. A random kid on the street could tell you that. John AvlonBut on Thursday President Donald Trump advocated exploring just that. On live television. Four months into a pandemic that he has spectacularly mismanaged, leading to the highest death toll in the world. It was so head-smackingly bad that the company that makes Lysol felt obliged to clean up the President's mess by issuing a statement, essentially dismissing the suggestion as lethal lunacy. But this is who Trump is. This is how he thinks.
Trump unexpectedly leaves task force briefing 01:04"The new acting chief of staff seemed to be saying President Trump was mentally ill — and that this was a good thing," Karl recounts."The corollary to that theory: Don't try to control the man in the Oval Office. What you think is madness is actually genius.
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