Christie Smythe, reporter who fell for Martin Shkreli, defends herself on Twitter

December 21, 2020 | 4:18pm | Updated December 21, 2020 | 4:52pm Enlarge Image Martin Shkreli and Christie Smythe Getty Images; Facebook Martin Shkreli’s love scribe has unleashed a firestorm on Twitter since going public with their romance Sunday — defending herself while hailing him as a COVID-19 hero. Former Bloomberg court reporter Christie Smythe, who famously revealed her love for the publicly flayed “Pharma Bro’’ in a magazine article, has spent the past day tweeting that the convicted fraudster is no “psychopath” — and instead just a misunderstood genius who even touted a promising COVID-19 treatment before the rest of the world. “Since mid-April, researchers around the world have been looking into using leprosy drug clofazimine for COVID-19. Martin Shkreli beat them, drafting that proposal from prison in March. The government called him ‘delusional,’ ” Smythe defiantly tweeted along with two links to stories mentioning the anti-leprosy drug’s potential in combatting the coronavirus. The journalist insisted that her imprisoned beloved fraudster is no evil nut job, despite what some people think. “I realize it’s hard for many people to accept that 1. Martin is not a psychopath, and 2. a woman can choose to do something with her life…
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