- A COVID-19 therapeutic drug hyped by MyPillow founder on Tuesday afternoon pushed CNN’s Anderson Cooper to the limits of his patience.
- “Sir, just for our viewers: You have no medical background. You are not a scientist,” said Cooper Mike Lindell, a close ally of President Trump, also known as the “MyPillow guy.”
- “A man called you in April and said he had this product. You are on the board now and will earn money from the sale of this product,” Cooper said.
- “The reason he pointed at you is because you have the president’s ear … How do you sleep at night?”
- Lindell has pushed for FDA approval of oleandrin – a medication derived from a plant that is toxic when consumed raw – and claims it is a “cure” for COVID-19, although there is no evidence yet of a healing.
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Anderson Cooper lost patience on Tuesday afternoon in interviews with Mike MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, who has been pushing a coronavirus therapist he describes as an “cure” without evidence.
“Sir, just for our viewers: You have no medical background. You are not a scientist,” Cooper Lindell said.
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“A man called you in April and said he had this product,” Cooper continued. “You are on the board now and will make money from the sale of this product. The reason he reached out to you is that you have the ear of the president … How do you sleep at night?”
“Anderson, that’s your story,” Lindell said, before accusing the media of trying to deny treatment to the American people in an animosity toward President Trump.
Lindell met with Trump in the White House in July to support FDA approval of oleandrin. The meeting was first reported by The Washington Post.
The medicine, which is derived from a plant that can be fatally toxic if consumed raw, is produced by a company called Phoenix.
Lindell sits on the company’s board of directors, and reports confidently for the drug to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson.
“If people were left to their own devices, this would be the next hydroxychloroquine,” an administration official told The Post about oleandrin, referring to the drug that Trump pushed into the pandemic early on, despite medical checks on it. its effectiveness.
Growing in frustration, Cooper Lindell asked, “How are you other than a seller of a snake oil?”
“I think my platform stands on its own,” Lindell said. “I have a platform that God has given me of integrity and trust.”
