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Days after former President Donald Trump worked the drive-thru at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, the CDC reported a deadly E. coli outbreak — at McDonald’s.

Trump scored high points with the working class by working a shift at a McDonald’s restaurant in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday, October 20. He also served fries to mainstream reporters and a few lucky customers.


 
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The campaign stunt was a huge success, but Democrats and their media allies were furious.

On Tuesday, media outlets breathlessly reported that deadly E. coli bacteria was found in McDonald’s quarter pounder burgers. They claimed one person died and dozens more were hospitalized in Colorado and other states.

But some doctors correctly pointed out that E. coli bacteria can’t survive high heat – so the quarter pounder patties couldn’t be the culprit.

Then ABC News and other outlets reported that E. coli was found in the onions on the quarter pounders.

But McDonald’s puts onions on all of their burgers. So why single out the quarter pounder?

Most Americans are wary of any press release coming from the CDC after the COVID pandemic debacle in 2020.

Escherichia coli, or E. coli, normally exists in our intestines and is found in the stool of healthy humans.

E. coli in the gut is harmless to most humans. In fact, E. coli benefits humans by preventing other bad bacteria from colonizing the gut.

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However, E. coli can cause serious infections in people with impaired immune systems, including people with HIV/AIDS and cancer patients.

Handwashing with soap and warm water kills E.coli on the hands.

Trump supporters are suspicious of the CDC’s motives. They say the E. coli outbreak story is too much of a coincidence so soon after Trump worked his shift at McDonald’s.