Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar mocked President Trump on Wednesday about a COVID-19 treatment she believed her husband John Bessler was treated with during his bout with the disease.
“Well, I think that I listened to the science there. I believe he did briefly take that drug … or some drug like it, but I think that we have to listen to the science and you have to listen to your doctors with what is going to work in each individual situation,” Klobuchar told SiriusXM’s Michael Smerconish on April 7 regarding her thoughts about the debate swirling around hydroxychloroquine since her husband’s illness.
“Sometimes, you might have other conditions that make it so you can’t take certain drugs. Sometimes your own condition with the virus wouldn’t demand. I think people have to look at what works. I believe in science, something this president has been not listening to,” she added.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Klobuchar’s office for comment but did not hear back.
Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial medication, has been administered to patients for decades but has become a point of political debate after the president first touted it at the beginning of the lockdowns.
Trump recently revealed he was taking hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic measure to protect him from getting the virus, which caused Democratic lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to question his judgment on his health, saying he was too “morbidly obese” to be taking the drug.
Klobuchar has made no major remarks about the drug recently, but she did troll the president on Wednesday and mentioned the anti-malarial in reference to one of its side effects.
They say that hydroxychloroquine can lead to hallucinations. https://t.co/jCfls8eZpf
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) May 20, 2020
GOP Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly was also diagnosed with COVID-19 back in March, and he told ABC’s The View he was treated with hydroxychloroquine, shocking host Joy Behar who responded, “Wow. I can’t believe anybody with a brain would take that stuff, but you seem like an intelligent guy,” she responded. “You’re a representative in Congress. Why would you take that drug? There are terrible consequences.”
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, however, who contracted COVID-19 and was critical of the president’s use of hydroxychloroquine, was treated with Potentized quinine, according to his wife Cristina.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany responded to Cuomo’s criticism saying, “It turns out that Chris Cuomo took a less safe version of [hydroxychloroquine] called quinine, which the FDA removed from the market in 2006 because it had serious side effects,
