"“We’ve taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites - gone, the kids are crying and everything - and started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works.”"
"“During both Trump’s stints in office, America has become exhaustingly accustomed to an extremely well-documented barrage of lies and untruths that are remarkable even by the already-low standards of the average politician.”"
"“The president’s representatives often tries to spin the fibs in outrageous ways: perhaps ‘dead’ didn’t mean ‘dead,’ they might argue, but was simply the president’s colorful way of saying somebody was very sick; in the end, the layers upon layers of untruths just become an impenetrable miasma of post-truth bloviation.”"
"“In the case of the supposed miracle pharmaceutical this week, rewind the full video far enough - for an added bonus, watch the face of Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz, who's standing in the background, as the whole thing goes down - and you can vaguely reconstruct how the line ended up coming out of Trump’s voluble mouth.”"
A routine press event included a claim that a new drug can bring patients back from the dead. The president said a person was given last rites and was gone, with family members crying, and then improved after starting the drug. The claim was presented as a clear success. The surrounding context describes a pattern of frequent, well-documented untruths and attempts to reinterpret statements in ways that reduce their literal meaning. The account suggests the specific line may have come from a discussion of the Right to Try Act, a law intended to allow access to certain experimental treatments.
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