Trump Lashes Out at Reporter After Challenge on Unapproved Drug

WATCH: President Trump calls NBC’s Peter Alexander a “terrible reporter.”(Source: Bloomberg)
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President Donald Trump again encouraged Americans to try a malaria drug to fight coronavirus that the FDA hasn’t approved for the disease, and assailed a reporter who suggested that pushing it might spark a false sense of hope.

“I think people will be surprised,” Trump said of the drug, chloroquine, at a White House news conference on Friday. “It will be a game changer.”