You know DUers with 2020 hindsight it is pellucidly clear that he tried to sell the

[malaise]

hydroxychloroquine the same way he sold the steaks, the wine, the fake university etc. It is always about enriching himself.

[leftieNanner]

1. Yep

And he wants to think of himself as a hero. He came in and saved the day.

Remember "I alone can fix it."?

He's also enormously lazy and is always looking for a quick fix solution to a complex problem.

Plus the cash. There's always the cash. Just ask Jared.

[malaise]

2. What do you have to lose?

Meanwhile what he was thinking was what he had to lose - he will soon find out.

I detest the creep

[leftieNanner]

3. You are too kind

"Detest" doesn't have nearly enough swear words in it for how I feel about him.

We are of a like mind.

[brewens]

4. I talked on the phone to a Trump worshipper today that claimed hydroxychloroquine has been

a huge success. Several doctors treating hundreds of patients with no deaths. It's being suppressed to hurt Trump.

That's typical of her. She doesn't even trust FOX "News", so she's getting that from some real crackpot sources. my search on it ended after going through a page and scrolling way down to find a Washington Times story. That wasn't her source because it didn't go that far, but you get out there past the Moonie paper and you're in real wackjob country.

[lunatica]

5. He's a prolixitous speaker which is also pellucidly clear.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. I've always thought of him as totally insigrievious. n/t

[lunatica]

15. He's definitely antimodial

I know, it’s paradoxical. How can someone be the opposite of himself? Yet he does it well. You Don’t see what you get and you get what you don’t see.

[stillcool]

6. pellucidly -...made me look

but why does it seem so familiar?

[malaise]

7. I have used it several times

and I discovered that pellucidly clear has been used in the US courts quite a few times.

[stillcool]

8. aha...thank you

I was doing a search on 'who said Pellucidly'. I don't know why, but your name didn't come up. Would've been there for hours.

[malaise]

9. Search DU for "Let me make this pellucidly clear''

[Wounded Bear]

13. Maybe thinking of Pellucidar...

Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth invented by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. In a crossover event between Burroughs's series, there is a Tarzan story in which he travels into Pellucidar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellucidar

[mopinko]

10. you forgot about the vodka.

bet he moved a bit o coke back in the day, too.
delusions have alway been his speciality.

[jmowreader]

11. In this case, I don't think so

The only way he'd be able to enrich himself with HCQ is if he sprung Martin Shkreli from prison and let him set the prices. Hydroxychloroquine is about as cheap as aspirin.

A more likely story is that Trump knew he had to do something Right Fucking Now, and Didier Raoult appears to be getting results out of HCQ. (That Raoult isn't running control groups, and his results are pretty close to the results you get by doing absolutely nothing, is beside the point.) Trump is the kind of guy who sticks with a wrong decision no matter the consequences. Unfortunately, the "consequences" in this case aren't just a few bucks out of him business partners' pockets. It is death on a vast scale.

[Hekate]

14. I've read here more than once that the money trail leads straight to his kids...

Which I am inclined to believe