Nets Pounce on Bogus Claim Doctor Fired for Opposing Drug Trump Pushed

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 22, 2020
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On Wednesday, the liberal media lit up with the new anti-Trump narrative about Dr. Rick Bright, who claims without evidence, that he was fired from his HHS position for opposing the use of hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug President Trump had touted as a possible treatment for the Chinese coronavirus. But new reporting from Politico (not a right-wing outlet) found officials had been looking to fire him for incompetence for about a year, and he had praised the drug himself.

ABC’s World News Tonight invested the most time in promoting the bogus allegations, giving them over two minutes of airtime (2:19).  And without any apparent research into the Bright, White House correspondent Terry Moran enthusiastically parroted his accusations against the President:

Tonight, Dr. Rick Bright, who led the key federal agency that’s developing drugs and a vaccine to fight the coronavirus is suddenly out of his job and he’s speaking out. Bright saying he was abruptly removed from his post this week because, he claims, he insisted on rigorous, science-based vetting of hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has been embraced by President Trump.

And as if it didn’t prove the bogus nature of the allegations, Moran touted how Bright was being represented by the same lawyers who tried to slander Justice Bret Kavanaugh (something CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News were smart enough not to do). “They say his removal from that post was, quote, ‘retaliation plain and simple’ and they want to see him reinstated,” Moran declared.

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