ISBL Asshat of the Week: Peter Navarro

White House trade adviser—and why he is suddenly _____’s expert on COVID  and hydroxychloroquine is beyond me—Peter  Navarro could be the ISBL Asshat of the Week almost every week because of the idiocy that dribbles from his lips, but last week he took it to a whole new level.

Appearing on CNN last week with Erin Burnett to talk about the merits of hydroxychloroquine—which has already been disproved by the FDA—Peter Navarro said this:

“All right. Let me say this to you, OK? I reach out to all your viewers. Scott Adams — you know Scott Adams, right? He’s the guy who wrote the Dilbert cartoon. He did a beautiful 10-minute video on Twitter, and the thesis of the video is that CNN might be killing thousands because of the way they’ve treated [hydroxychloroquine]. So, I would just ask, I’ll let Scott Adams’ video be my defense on this.”

Yes, a comic strip writer is his expert on a COVID-19 cure, but Burnett was not having it:

“Can I just say something? I find that to be offensive because he’s a comic strip writer. I just said that because I want to be clear. I just said Dr. Fauci, Dr. Brett Giroir, and Dr. Deborah Birx.”

And when Navarro continued to present hydroxychloroquine as the cure-all, Burnett remined him one more time:

“Peter, first of all, on a basic level, you’re an economist, not a scientist.”

And that’s when Navarro snapped and revealed the real reason is this drug’s pusher:

“Let me tell you why I got involved with this. I got involved with this because as a Defense Production Act coordinator I’m literally sitting on 63 million tablets, 63 million tablets, of hydroxychloroquine that would help possibly four million Americans stay alive. And so I’ve got that stake in the game.”

Yes, he’s pushing it because our government already bought and paid for tablets that we have since discovered don’t work.

We wasted money, we wasted lives. All because an economist wanted to play doctor, and, perhaps, I don’t know, I’m just guessing because this is the _____Administration, maybe he made some coins off the sale of 63 million tablets.

Peter Navarro. The ISBL Asshat of the Week.