Trump's New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes In Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, And Hydroxychloroquine
Will Sommer, The Daily Beast, July 28, 2020
A Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren't necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus has become a star on the right-wing internet, garnering tens of millions of views on Facebook on Monday alone. Donald Trump Jr. declared the video of Stella Immanuel a "must watch," while Donald Trump himself retweeted the video. ...Yeah, Doc, I think I do.
Immanuel, a pediatrician and a religious minister, has a history of making bizarre claims about medical topics and other issues. She has often claimed that gynecological problems like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons and witches.
She alleges alien DNA is currently used in medical treatments, and that scientists are cooking up a vaccine to prevent people from being religious. And, despite appearing in Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress on Monday, she has said that the government is run in part not by humans but by "reptilians" and other aliens. ...
Immanuel alleges that she has successfully treated hundreds of patients with hydroxychloroquine ... Studies have failed to find proof that the drug has any benefit in treating COVID-19 ...
Immanuel said in her speech that the supposed potency of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment means that protective face masks aren't necessary ... Toward the end of Immanuel's speech, the event's organizer and other participants can be seen trying to get her away from the microphone. ...
[B]oth Facebook and Twitter eventually deleted videos of Immanuel's speech from their sites, citing rules against COVID-19 disinformation. The deletions set off yet another round of complaints by conservatives of bias at the social-media platforms.
Immanuel responded in her own way, declaring that Jesus Christ would destroy Facebook's servers if her videos weren't restored to the platform.
"Hello Facebook put back my profile page and videos up or your computers with start crashing till you do," she tweeted. "You are not bigger that God. I promise you. If my page is not back up face book will be down in Jesus name." ...
In sermons posted on YouTube and articles on her website, Immanuel claims that medical issues like endometriosis, cysts, infertility, and impotence are caused by sex with "spirit husbands" and "spirit wives"—a phenomenon Immanuel describes essentially as witches and demons having sex with people in a dreamworld.
"They are responsible for serious gynecological problems," Immanuel said. "We call them all kinds of names—endometriosis, we call them molar pregnancies, we call them fibroids, we call them cysts, but most of them are evil deposits from the spirit husband," Immanuel said of the medical issues in a 2013 sermon. "They are responsible for miscarriages, impotence—men that can't get it up."
In her sermon, Immanuel offers a sort of demonology of "nephilim," the biblical characters she claims exist as demonic spirits and lust after dream sex with humans, causing all matter of real health problems and financial ruin. Immanuel claims real-life ailments such as fibroid tumors and cysts stem from the demonic sperm after demon dream sex, an activity she claims affects "many women."
"They turn into a woman and then they sleep with the man and collect his sperm," Immanuel said in her sermon. "Then they turn into the man and they sleep with a man and deposit the sperm and reproduce more of themselves."
According to Immanuel, people can tell if they have taken a demonic spirit husband or spirit wife if they have a sex dream about someone they know or a celebrity, wake up aroused, stop getting along with their real-world spouse, lose money, or generally experience any hardship. ...
In a 2015 sermon that laid out a supposed Illuminati plan hatched by "a witch" to destroy the world using abortion, gay marriage, and children's toys, among other things, Immanuel claimed that DNA from space aliens is currently being used in medicine. ...
Immanuel claimed in another 2015 sermon posted that scientists had plans to install microchips in people, and develop a "vaccine" to make it impossible to become religious. ...
Immanuel has also used her pulpit to preach hatred of LGBT people. Shortly before the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, Immanuel warned her flock that gay marriage meant that "very soon people are going to be seeking to marry children" and accused gay Americans of practicing "homosexual terrorism." In the same sermon, she praised a father's decision to not love his transgender son after a gender transition.
"You know the crazy part?" Immanuel said. ...
Trump Goes On Hydroxychloroquine Twitter Binge, Retweets Anti-Mask Conspiracies And False Claims That Drug Is 'Cure' For Covid-19
President Donald Trump went on a late night Twitter binge on Monday with more than a dozen posts pushing dubious claims about the drug hydroxychloroquine, including twice retweeting a video from a woman falsely claiming that the drug was a "cure" for Covid-19 and that "you don't need a mask." ...Trump Promotes Video Undermining Fauci Which Facebook, YouTube And Twitter Remove For 'False Information'
[T]he FDA has stopped recommending emergency use of the drug out of safety concerns about harmful side effects. In May, the WHO stopped its hydroxychloroquine trial and, similarly, the NIH halted its clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in June because it provided "no benefit" in the patients studied. ...
Two of Trump's Monday night tweets focused on Stella Immanuel, who had appeared outside Capitol Hill on Friday with a several other doctors to make a series of outlandish claims while dismissing other "fake doctors" who doubt the efficacy of the drug as well as the idea of double blind clinical studies to scientifically test medical treatments. ...
[B]oth Facebook and YouTube [have removed] video of Immanuel's claims, citing it for spreading misinformation about the pandemic. ...
The reckless and irresponsible posts by Trump come exactly one week after the president tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask and the press hailed him as having adopted a new, more serious tone about handling the outbreak that has claimed nearly 150,000 American lives since February.
President Donald Trump appears to have complicated feelings for Dr. Anthony Fauci. While the commander in chief has publicly said that he has a good relationship with the nation's top immunologist, his Twitter feed tells a different story.Dr. Fauci, on Trump's tweets:
In a flurry of curious Tweets and retweets late Monday night, Trump retweeted a podcast promotion that featured Fauci-critic Dr. Lee Vliet which is sure to cause drama at the next White House Coronavirus Task Force meeting (at least one that both Trump and Fauci will attend.)
The tweet originated from a Twitter account called WarRoomPandemic, and claimed: "Dr. Fauci has misled the American people on many issues, but particular, on dismissing #hydroxychloroquine and calling Remdesivir the new gold standard." ...
The video was also shared by Donald Trump Jr., was eventually removed by Facebook for pushing "false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19." YouTube and Twitter also pulled the video. [Junior's Twitter account was also given a 12-hour ban] ...
Fauci's approval rating for his role in fighting the coronavirus has been significantly higher than that of Trump's. ... This has led to multiple reports of the president feeling some animus towards Dr. Fauci, which may be the reason for Monday night's undermining tweet.
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