Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
whitehouse.gov | July 29, 2020

Q    Do you regret tweeting about that doctor, Mr. President?  Do you regret tweeting about that doctor yesterday?

THE PRESIDENT:  Regret what?

Q    Stella Immanuel, the doctor — do you wish you had not retweeted that?

THE PRESIDENT:  I was very impressed with her and other doctors that stood with her.  I think she made sense, but I know nothing about her.  I just saw her on — you know, making a statement with very respected doctors.  She was not alone.  She was making a statement about hydroxychloroquine with other doctors that swear by it.  They think it’s great.  So she was not alone.

Fake news CNN made it like, “Oh, I said this, I said that.”  She was with a whole group of people.  And you ought to tell your network the reason their ratings are so bad is because the coverage is so false.  If CNN would be honest — and that goes for MSDNC also.  But your network is so dishonest in its coverage on just about everything, and there’s an example.

I was very impressed by her.  Know nothing about her; I had never seen her before.  But certainly you can put her up and let her have a voice.  So what they did is they took down their voice.  Now, they seem to never take down the other side.  They only take down conservative voices.  It’s a shame.

And with hydroxy, all I want to do is save lives.  I don’t care if it’s hydroxy or anything else.  All I want to do is save lives.  If we can save lives, that’s great.

Now, one thing: We’re doing very well on vaccines and very well on therapeutics.  So that’s very important.  But I happen to be a believer in hydroxy.  I used it.  I had no problem.  I happen to be a believer.  Many, many people agree with me.  A great test just came out from the Ford clinic in Michigan — very respected.  We’ll see how it is.

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THE PRESIDENT: And as far as Portland is concerned, we’ve taken a very strong stand.  They are anarchists.  They’re radical, crazy people.  And they’re either going to straighten it out for themselves — Portland, the police — and maybe if the state gets involved; that means the governor and the mayor.  But they’re very weak people.  They’re very weak people.  These radicals, these anarchists are controlling the governor and this mayor.

The mayor went into a rally — it wasn’t accurately reported by CNN, by NBC.  The mayor went into a rally.  He thought he’d be their buddy.  They excoriated him.  They excor- — what they did to him was incredible.  Lucky he had five bodyguards.  But they excoriated him.

NBC — I didn’t see CNN because I don’t watch CNN.  NBC absolutely covered it like he was their big buddy.  No, he was in great danger of dying.  He would have been dead if he didn’t have his bodyguards.

These are bad people.  These are anarchists.  They’re agitators.  And either they do something or we’re going to do it.

In the meantime, our purpose there is only to protect our federal buildings, which we’re doing with no problem.  I mean, they’re nasty and they’re vicious people, but our people are very powerful people.  Very powerful.

And either they’re going to clean up Portland soon or the federal government is going up and we’re going to do it for them.  So either they clean out Portland — the governor and the mayor, who are weak — either they clean out Portland or we’re going in to do it for them.

Okay, thank you very much.

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By the way, one quote from Joe Biden yesterday that you won’t see, either:

As Biden opened the press conference, he said: “Welcome to Kingswood Community Center, everyone.”

Just one problem. He was in the William “Hicks” Anderson Center.

Catching his mistake, the oft-confused candidate momentarily got that all-too-well-known Joe Biden deer-in-headlights look on his face. “Actually, that’s the one down I [sic] used to work.” “It was a joke,” he said, nervously laughing. “I didn’t know where we were.”

— Joe Being Joe: Biden Finally Does Presser, Awkwardly Only Takes Questions From Pre-Approved List of Reporters
RedState | July 29, 2020 | Mike Miller