Twenty years ago yesterday, the Drudge report stated that Newsweek was sitting on the Monica Lewinsky story. Today, Newsweek has no problem with ruminating on a subject they really have no facts on (via John Sexton)
President Trump’s heavily scrutinized recent health exam revealed that he’s continued to take the hair-loss drug finasteride, even after a succession of new studies showed that it is linked to side effects including chronic erectile dysfunction and depression.
We have to get all the way to the end where we see
Psychiatric medications required by past presidents have had to be prescribed in secret, according to POLITICO, but it’s not unusual for presidents to take various medications for various health conditions that aren’t stigmatized. Bill Clinton, for example, also took a drug to manage his cholesterol levels, according to the Times. As with most medication side effects, their manifestation and severity differs from person to person. There’s no guarantee that Trump is or isn’t experiencing finasteride’s side effects; just that they’re a possibility.
Yeah, pure and utter speculation. As Sexton writes
Let’s face it. The only reason to write this story is to get Trump’s name and “erectile dysfunction†in the same headline. This is the kind of material that used to be reserved for 2nd-rate progressive bloggers looking to amuse their readers. Now it’s being published at Newsweek as news.
But, things like and intern giving oral sex to a president needed to be sat on.
