‘Extraordinarily Uncomfortable’ It was one of the most unforgettable, cringeworthy moments of Donald Trump’s presidency. And now, one of his key administration figures, who was in the room at the time, is opening up about sitting through it silently. In an interview with ABC’s Terry Moran Monday, former coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx recounted the stunning Apr. 23 briefing in which the president proposed injecting disinfectant to treat Covid-19. “Frankly, I didn’t know how to handle that episode,” Birx said. “I still think about it every day.” During that news conference, Trump floated the possibility of injecting disinfectant to another official who was in the room. “Then I see the disinfectant, one minute. 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’d be interesting to check that so that you’ll have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds interesting to me. Birx suggested she was grateful that someone else had been put on the spot.” “You can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable I was,” she says in this revealing clip. In Other News... • Columnist Issues Humiliating Retraction and Apology For Tweets Defaming Journalist as Pedophile-Worshipper • Sunny Hostin Complains That Only Andrew Cuomo is Being Asked to Resign When Other Governors Are Also Bad • Fox’s Janice Dean Accuses The View of Refusing to Book Her Because They Support Cuomo • Elliot Page Speaks Out in TIME Cover Story, On Both ‘Love’ and ‘Hatred’ After Coming Out as Transgender 6.5.0 |