Congressional hearing erupts in laughter as Dem brings up Trump's bleach-injection rant

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) on Wednesday drew laughter during a congressional hearing when he brought up former President Donald Trump's past ramblings about curing COVID-19 by injecting disinfectant.

During a hearing on the "weaponization" of the federal government, Connolly asked Robert Flaherty, the former assistant to the president and director of digital strategy at the Biden White House, about some of the misinformation that was spread during the pandemic that killed over one million Americans.

"Mr. Flaherty... when the previous president suggested that perhaps the ingestion of bleach might cure COVID, was that misinformation?" he asked.

Flaherty said he "can't speak to that," as laughter erupted in the room.

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"Now when he suggested, perhaps, sources of light in certain orifices of the body might also work, was that misinformation?" he asked.

"I believe, my understanding is, that was medically inaccurate," Flaherty replied.

"And by the way, did that president get COVID?" Connolly asked.

"Congressman, I recall that he did," said Flaherty.

"And did he get vaccinated?" Connolly asked.

"Congressman, I believe that he did," said Flaherty.

Trump's rant about using light and injecting disinfectant to cure COVID-19 came during an April 2020 press conference that at the time left onlookers baffled.

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it," Trump said at the time. "And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting, right? And then I see the disinfectant, where it 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, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it’d be interesting to check that."

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