Donald Trump Jr. in Twitter jail for sharing 'demon sperm' doctor's hydroxychloroquine video
After declaring a video in which a group of lab coat-wearing doctors spread extreme coronavirus disinformation a “must watch,” Donald Trump Jr. was suspended on Twitter for 12 hours.
Among those front and centre in the clip is a doctor who believes that demons have sex with humans as they dream, causing all manner of ailments.
“Tweets with the video are in violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy. We are taking action in line with our policy,” an anonymous Twitter spokesperson told ABC News . “We are continuing to take action on new and existing Tweets with the video.”
Trump Jr.’s tweets are still visible, but he himself is now limited to direct messages for the duration of the suspension.
The video, which was the second-most-viewed on Facebook on Tuesday (starting via a Breitbart stream), was also shared by President Donald Trump to his 84.2 million Twitter followers. According to Vice , the tweet from Trump was later taken down, with Facebook and YouTube taking similar action. CrowdTangle, the analytics firm, showed the video had been shared over 600,000 times as a result, at least in part, of Trump’s boosting.
The #2 most-engaged post on Facebook today is a Breitbart video of a group of doctors claiming that hydroxychloroquine is "a cure for Covid" and "you don't need a mask."
14 million views in 6 hours. (For scale, Plandemic got ~8 million in a few days.)
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) July 28, 2020
The video, from a group created earlier this month called America’s Frontline Doctors, shows the apparent medics on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, making a number of alarming claims. Chief among those claims is that studies showing hydroxychloroquine to be ineffective are “fake science” from “fake pharma companies.”
Their group’s website reads: “If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease.” According to the Daily Beast, the group is backed by the Tea Party Patriots, itself backed by wealthy Republican donors.
One of the doctors featured in the video is paediatrician and minister Stella Immanuel from Houston, who claims that the cure for COVID-19 is “hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax” and that she has treated 350 people with this concoction.
The Daily Beast also looked into Immanuel’s previous claims. In sermons and articles on her website, she blames “spirit wives” and “spirit husbands” for issues like endometriosis, cysts, infertility and impotence. She blames demonic spirits on any number of health concerns and financial problems. More specifically, she blames their demonic sperm, which they spread when they have sex with humans when they dream.
“They turn into a woman and then they sleep with the man and collect his sperm,” Immanuel said in her sermon, according to the Daily Beast. “Then they turn into the man and they sleep with a man and deposit the sperm and reproduce more of themselves.”
In a 2015 sermon, she described an Illuminati plan to destroy the world using, among other things, gay marriage, children’s toys and abortion. The same sermon claimed that alien DNA was used in medical treatments, and that shows like Pokemon, Wizards of Waverly Place and That’s So Raven are all meant to introduce children to witches.
A different sermon posted to YouTube claimed that scientists have “found the gene in somebody’s mind that makes you religious, so they can vaccinate against it,” and she also believes that politicians in power are at least part-reptilian. Recently, she tweeted out a video urging Dr. Anthony Fauci — Trump’s longtime coronavirus lead — and CNN hosts to send her their urine samples, to prove they’re not taking hydroxychloroquine.
I double dog dare y’all give me a urine sample. pic.twitter.com/Xe0U09W9Pl
— Stella Immanuel MD (@stella_immanuel) July 27, 2020
