And the trainwreck interview of the week goes to...
CNN’s Anderson Cooper and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell got into a heated argument on the air Tuesday afternoon over oleandrin, the extract from the highly toxic oleander plant that the pillow salesman joined Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson in pitching to President Trump in July as a potential coronavirus cure.
In fact, emergency medical physician Jake Deutsch, who appeared on Cooper’s CNN show after Lindell was finished, said that it’s “more likely someone would die from taking oleander than from COVID.” Yet Lindell argued on Tuesday that oleandrin is “the miracle of all time,” and that “the tests are out there.” Indeed, he said he was contacted about it as far back as Easter Sunday, when he recalled that he “told the whole country to pray for the end to this pandemic.”But the more Cooper grilled Lindell over any proof that oleandrin is effective against COVID-19, and that it has been tested for this purpose in humans in rigorous peer-reviewed, clinical trials, the more flustered Lindell became.
Cooper questioned Lindell’s integrity, noting he has had to pay “massive settlements” over misleading health claims made in his late-night infomercials. MyPillow agreed to pay almost $1 million in civil penalties in California in 2016, for example.
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