Chris Crucial: Happy Disinfectant Day! 💀

PLUS: What David Pecker knew

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1. 4 years ago today: The fundamental question of any presidential election is this one: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

It’s an even more relevant question in this election because four years ago Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee for president, was, well, the president.

Which means you can do a DIRECT comparison between where we are today with Joe Biden and where we were on, say, April 23, 2020, with Trump.

And on this day four years ago, this happened:

If you don’t want to watch the video, here’s what then-President Trump said — with doctors and medical experts standing by — about his ideas on how to combat the growing Covid-19 pandemic:

So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn't been checked because of the testing. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too.

I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.

Yeah. He really said that. And then his White House tried to insist that he actually didn’t say what he said.

“President Trump has repeatedly said that Americans should consult with medical doctors regarding coronavirus treatment, a point that he emphasized again during yesterday’s briefing,” then White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the following day. “Leave it to the media to irresponsibly take President Trump out of context and run with negative headlines.”