Meet President Trump’s new favorite COVID-19 doctor, Dr. Stella Immanuel, a homophobic preacher who praises hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus “cure” and who claims that face masks aren’t necessary to stop transmission of the novel coronavirus.
The Houston-area doctor shot to fame on the right-wing internet Monday when the president retweeted a video featuring her appearing in Washington, D.C.
to lobby Congress. The video garnered tens of millions of views on Facebook on Monday alone. In the video – which has since been removed by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter after it was published by the right-wing outlet Breitbart News – she promotes the discredited coronavirus remedy, hydroxychloroquine while attacking “fake doctors” who doubt the