Michigan GOP leader: Whitmer, a 'monster,' should face criminal investigation for COVID response

Kristina Karamo, the new chair of the Michigan Republican Party, said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should face criminal investigation for her response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“One of my gripes with Gretchen Whitmer — forget a lot of the political things you’d think would made me angry with her, like abortion, we didn’t get to that point — how about COVID, what happened with hydroxychloroquine?” Karamo said during an extensive, wide-ranging interview with MLive. “That women needs to be criminally investigated and I stand by that statement.”

Karamo was referring to an anti-malarial drug that, early on the pandemic, gained an emergency use authorization for treatment of COVID-19. In the ensuing years, a long series of clinical studies have concluded both hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic used on horses, aren’t effective in treating or preventing the virus.

Still, Karamo alleged Whitmer personally worked to suppress the use of “this life-saving treatment” solely for political gain, all because former President Donald Trump had championed the use of hydroxychloroquine. She called it “even worse” than Whitmer’s controversial nursing home policies, which had long been a source of outrage among some Republicans.



https://www.mlive.com/politics/2023/03/michigan-gop-leader-whitmer-a-monster-should-face-criminal-investigation-for-covid-response.html