Having whiffed on remdesivir and ignored LL, he would look like a complete idiot to claim to know of LL before everyone knows of LL. He has the protection of the FDA's bureaucracy to to protect him; all he has to say is LL was an experimental drug and needed to go thru the trials successfully. This applies to ALL the mfkrs who used their influence to keep LL out of the spotlight even as it tried to almost break thru several times last year.