Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire took a much harder line, posting a “FACT CHECK” that claimed “Trump did not tell people to ‘inject themselves with disinfectant’ or ‘drink bleach.’” The article focused on DHS official Bill Bryan, who spoke before Trump did, euphemistically using the word “inject” and saying, in the article’s words, that “when they ‘inject’ UV rays into the mix along with high temperatures and increased humidity, ...the virus dies quickly.”

The Daily Wire blockquotes Trump’s comments, but fails to address the part that shows his suggestion to inject disinfectant. Instead, the article tries to suggest that Trump and Bryan were talking about the same UV light topic all along, focusing on Trump “later rais[ing] the possibility of whether UV rays could kill the coronavirus if it was on a person’s skin.” The article does not mention that excessive UV light exposure causes skin cancer.

Breitbart took a similar line to that of The Daily Wire, ludicrously claiming in its “fact check,” that “Trump used the word ‘inject,’ but what he meant was using a process — which he left ‘medical doctors’ to define — in which patients’ lungs might be cleared of the virus, given new knowledge about its response to light and other factors. … At no time did Trump actually propose injecting patients with disinfectant.”

Rush Limbaugh had a similar deny-everything approach.

Podcast host and coronavirus truther Bill Mitchell, however, had perhaps the most incredible take of all.