Fact Check: Trump Didn't Say People Should 'Inject Bleach' To Tackle COVID-19. Here's What He Said

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55% : " In fact, examples of this claim had been circulating online for four years, following a media briefing conducted by Trump in late April 2020, during which the then-president discussed using disinfectants, such as bleach, in the U.S. government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
41% : In an apparent reference to Bryan's earlier comments, Trump then said (around the 26:51 mark): Four minutes later, a journalist responded to Trump's disinfectant comments by asking whether there was any scenario in which cleaning products like bleach and isopropyl alcohol would be injected into people.
39% : CNN, 28 June 2024, https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/read-biden-trump-debate-rush-transcript/index.html. 'Trump Says He Was Being Sarcastic with Comments about Injecting Disinfectants'.
33% : This accusation has been repeatedly leveled at Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, in the run up to the 2024 election.
33% : In late July, one X user posted a video of U.S. President Joe Biden claiming Trump once said "just inject a little bleach into your vein" to deal with COVID-19.
30% : During an April 2020 media briefing, Trump did ask members of the government's coronavirus task force to look into whether disinfectants could be injected inside people to treat COVID-19.
29% : " Trump then clarified his own remarks, adding: "It wouldn't be through injection.
28% : However, at no point did Trump explicitly tell people they could or should inject bleach into their bodies.
28% : In his opening remarks of the CNN television debate in June 2024, the president said the pandemic was "badly handled" by Trump and "many people were dying."
28% : A day later, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office his question about injecting disinfectants was a "sarcastic question" to "see what would happen": He then denied he was asking medical experts to look into injecting people with disinfectants.
26% : Instead, while floating the idea to the government's coronavirus task force and the media, Trump asked whether injecting disinfectants "inside" could help fight the virus, as we further outline below.
25% : Therefore, because Biden and Garcia's remarks, and the follow-up social media posts, were at best a misinterpretation and at worst a misrepresentation of what Trump said, we rated this claim "Mostly False." On April 23, 2020, Trump conducted an hourlong media briefing with members of the government's coronavirus task force (transcript).

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