Anderson Cooper Stunned When David Urban Denies Trump Wanted to Study Bleach Injections for Covid Patients: ‘Am I Wrong?’

CNN’s Anderson Cooper was stunned when contributor and Trump defender David Urban began literally booing him for bringing up President Donald Trump’s flirtation with disinfectant injections as a COVID-19 treatment.

On Wednesday night’s post-Republican National Convention coverage, Cooper set Urban off with an aside at the end of a segment in which Urban and fellow pro-Trump contributor Rick Santorum bashed the rest of the panel for blaming the high coronavirus death toll on Trump.

“We got to take a break, but if it had been up to the president, though, we would have had more deaths by experimenting on people with bleach, so I’m not sure if we really…” Cooper said, as Urban retorted “No, come on, boo, come on Anderson, you know better, boo.”

“He didn’t want to inject bleach into people? In medical experiments?” a stunned Cooper asked.

“Boo, come on,” Urban said.

“He didn’t David? Am I wrong?” Cooper asked.

“Come on. No he didn’t want to inject bleach in people, no,” Urban said.

“Yes he did. He said we should experiment on people with bleach, with disinfectant inside their bodies. No? Am I the only one who heard that?” Cooper said.

“Probably,” Urban said quietly, as Cooper tossed to commercial.

Cooper was referring to Trump’s remarks at an April coronavirus briefing, but Urban’s point may have been that Trump didn’t actually say the word “bleach.”

During that briefing, DHS scientist Bill Bryan gave a presentation during which he told reporters about the use of disinfectants on surfaces.

“We’ve tested bleach, we’ve tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus, specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids. And I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes; isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and that’s with no manipulation, no rubbing — just spraying it on and letting it go. You rub it and it goes away even faster. We’re also looking at other disinfectants, specifically looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva,” Bryan said.

Trump later referred back to Bryan’s presentation, and that’s when he mentioned disinfectant injections.

“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me,” Trump said.

So if Urban’s point is that Trump didn’t restrict himself to merely one deadly type of disinfectant to inject into people, then Anderson Cooper should consider himself owned.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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