The Arizona woman who said she and her husband drank fish-tank cleaner to ward off coronavirus has donated heavily to Democrats and acknowledges she's not a President Trump supporter -- despite news reports that she ingested the dangerous drug because she trusted what she thought was the president's advice.

The 61-year-old woman, whose first name is Wanda but has asked for her full identity to be withheld, survived the ordeal. Her 68-year-old husband, Gary, did not. Wanda has said that she and her husband each took a "teaspoon" of the fish-tank cleaner; medical toxicology results and a police investigation were pending.

"I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, 'Hey, isn't that the stuff they're talking about on TV?'" Wanda told NBC News, referring to the chloroquine phosphate in her fish-tank cleaner.

On March 19, Trump had touted anecdotal evidence that the antimalarial drug chloroquine could be used as a treatment for coronavirus during a White House briefing, calling it a possible "game-changer." In fact, the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] has approved the drug on an emergency basis, even though various media reports had mocked Trump's suggestion. However, the woman and her husband ingested the additive chloroquine phosphate, which has been used in aquariums to kill microscopic organisms that might harm fish and other aquatic animals.

Several media organizations that confused the chloroquine medication with chloroquine phosphate later issued corrections. The New York Times, though, all but accused Trump of recommending the same substance in the fish-tank cleaner.


Nevertheless, Wanda drew national attention by claiming that Trump had suggested she consume the fish-tank cleaner with her husband, and that she did so to avoid "getting sick."

"My advice is don’t believe anything that the president says and his people because they don’t know what they’re talking about," Wanda told NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard.

Wanda added, overstating the president's remarks: "We saw Trump on TV—every channel—and all of his buddies and that this was safe [sic]. ... Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."

She claimed that within "20 minutes" of taking the chemical, she felt "dizzy and hot" and started "vomiting," and her husband "started developing respiratory problems and wanted to hold my hand."

Queried by Hillyard on what advice she would give the American people, she reiterated, "Oh my God. Don't take anything. Don't believe anything. Don’t believe anything that the president says and his people ... call your doctor."

The Washington Free Beacon quickly unearthed evidence that NBC News did not, including Wanda's numerous donations to Democrats as recently as February. In that month, Wanda donated to the PAC 314 Action Fund, which has called itself the "pro-science resistance" to the White House.



Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the outlet revealed numerous other recipients of Wanda's cash, including Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the pro-choice EMILY's List.
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Speaking to the Free Beacon, Wanda acknowledged she was a Democrat and put less emphasis on Trump's guidance: "We weren't big supporters of [Trump], but we did see that they were using it in China and stuff," Wanda said.

"We didn't think it would kill us," she added. "We thought if anything it would help us, 'cus that's what we've been hearing on the news."

Wanda has not responded to requests for comment from Fox News.

Additionally, Fox News has reviewed a Facebook page apparently belonging to Wanda, which was first identified by the Twitter user Techno Fog.

"Your psycho prez is in [t]own, are you going to see him?" Wanda wrote on Facebook on Feb. 19, by way of wishing a friend a happy birthday. Trump was in town at a rally in Phoenix, Ariz., on that day.

Some media outlets have faced criticism for appearing to suggest Trump's comments contributed to her husband's death.



"Not everything in this vast and populous nation is a referendum on the president," concluded The National Review's Charles Cook.

In a statement, the Department of Health and Human Services this week allowed both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to be "donated to the Strategic National Stockpile to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible."

Sad that she is dumber than an average democrat.

Good grief.

Lunacy doesn’t even begin to describe this .

Well, her husband won't be voting this fall

Hey, Wanda, there were folks in Iran who thought methanol and ethanol were pretty much the same thing, too. Read again that word "were."

She's likely smarter than the average dem.

I don't know why, we as a society, have decided to mess with darwinism in humans. Let the stupid weed themselves out. Stop with the labels and warnings.

Oh yes he will. He’s a Democrat

One wonders what folks like that did for a living in their working years.

Dye7barrel: Don't be so sure of "him" not voting!
He's just dead - but he was a demonrat.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Wanna bet?

Stupid phfucks. I'll bet they already bred and spread the Disease.

Definite Darwin award recipients! Post mortem for her husband.

Oh yes he will!

I wouldnt bet on that. Uh, where's Jell0?

SAC, dont drink no fish tan...., uh, nevermind.

Well played.

There is no bar low enough.

Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, All the woke people know it's Tide pods. The challenge was just a test.

We need.to let Darwin clean the gene pool. At least the shallow end 😉😄

It's the Adam and Eve thing all over again....

She's smart enough ta murder her husband.

And get away with it.

Because Trump.

More fuuucking bullcshit, it’s never gonna end.

Probably several times

Damned if it ain’t !
Good one.

Holy Schist!1 Brain donor of the year.

We have a winner!

Now that he's dead, it's a given he will be...

These idiots, and the guy that tried to drive a locomotive into the Hospital ship Mercy in Kalifornia. You can't make this [bleep] up! -TomT

Probably heard often enough but could be true here:


While a woman is keeping vigil beside her husband’s deathbed, he says to her, "Before I die, I have something to confess to you."
"Shh, not now," she replies.

"But I need to tell you: I cheated on you," he admits.

"Yes, I know," she replies.

"I need to clear my conscience before I die… "

"Shh," she counters. "Just lie back and let the poison work."

Just when I think that nothing could surprise me anymore with these Darwinian geniuses, along comes yet another surprise. But not a total surprise because of course they had to blame Trump. That's just S.O.P.

Apparently, Wanda didn't drink enough of it.