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| Cavuto continued: “If you are taking this as a preventative treatment to ward off the virus, or in a worst-case scenario you are dealing with the virus and you are in this vulnerable population, it will kill you. I cannot stress that enough. This will kill you.” |
Trump goes after Fox News host, and the network,
in Twitter flurry
“Looking for a new outlet!” the president says after
criticism over his revelation that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent
Covid-19.
By MATTHEW
CHOI
05/18/2020
11:50 PM EDT
President
Donald Trump on Monday night issued a flurry of angry messages against Fox
News’ Neil Cavuto — and the network itself — after the host criticized the
president for saying he’d been taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure
against coronavirus.
The
president revealed earlier Monday that he’d taking the drug, to the chagrin of
health experts who warn there has been little evidence that the drug is an
effective treatment or deterrent for Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
Health experts warn that hydroxychloroquine could even lead to adverse effects
if taken outside of its intended uses — such as treating malaria, lupus and
rheumatoid arthritis — and say that Trump’s continued praise for the drug could
lead to a run on supplies.
Speaking
Monday afternoon, Cavuto said on his show: “The president insisted that
[hydroxychloroquine] has enormous benefits for patients either trying to
prevent or already have Covid-19. The fact of the matter is, though, when the
president said, ‘What have you got to lose?’, the number of studies [show] the
population have one thing to lose: their lives.”
Trump in
turn retweeted half a dozen Twitter posts attacking Cavuto and calling him an
“idiot,” “foolish,” “gullible” and “an asshole.” The president chose his own
words for the network, saying in a tweet that Fox News, which has generally
provided favorable coverage of Trump, “is no longer the same.”
“We miss
the great Roger Ailes,” the president wrote. “You have more anti-Trump people,
by far, than ever before. Looking for a new outlet!”
Ailes
served as head of the Fox News network and resigned in 2016 after numerous
allegations of sexual harassment. He advised Trump on debate prep during the
2016 election. Ailes died in 2017.
Fox News
did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s Monday-night
remarks. Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host who sued Ailes over
allegations of sexual harassment, retweeted Trump's comment with a gif of an
exasperated Kim Richards from “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.“
Trump’s
relationship with the network has been wavering in recent months. The
president, whose disdain of critical news coverage is well documented, lashed
out at Fox News last month, claiming that it was being fed “Democrat talking
points.”
“The people
who are watching @FoxNews, in record numbers (thank you President Trump), are
angry. They want an alternative now. So do I!” Trump tweeted on April 26.
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