Post by Odysseus on Aug 17, 2020 8:02:15 GMT
Hey, the My Pillow guy says it works, so it MUST be good!
Never mind that he has a financial interest in the company pushing it!
Make America Grift Again!
To the alarm of some government health officials, President Trump has expressed enthusiasm for the Food and Drug Administration to permit an extract from the oleander plant to be marketed as a dietary supplement or, alternatively, approved as a drug to cure COVID-19, despite lack of proof that it works.
Driving the news: The experimental botanical extract, oleandrin, was promoted to Trump during an Oval Office meeting in July. It's embraced by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, a big Trump backer, who recently took a financial stake in the company that develops the product.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Driving the news: The experimental botanical extract, oleandrin, was promoted to Trump during an Oval Office meeting in July. It's embraced by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, a big Trump backer, who recently took a financial stake in the company that develops the product.
Lindell told Axios that in the meeting, Trump "basically said: …'The FDA should be approving it.'"
BTW, the oleander plant is planted by road crews in the center of multi-lane highways, because it's so toxic that even deer won't eat it. They can smell it from a distance and not try to cross the road to get at it. Apparently deer are smarter than Trump administration officials and cronies.
You first!!!