STELLA IMMANUEL, a doctor at the center of a controversy over an unproven and potentially dangerous claim that an anti-malaria drug can treat COVID-19, is no stranger to conspiracy theories.

Facebook and Twitter have taken down the viral video in which she appears, saying it violates their policies about misinformation — but not before it was retweeted by Donald Trump and one of his sons.

The U.S. president defended himself, saying he found Dr. Immanuel, who was born in Cameroon and is based in the Texan city of Houston, “very impressive.”

“There was a woman who was spectacular in her statements about [hydroxychloroquine], and that she’s had tremendous success with it,” Trump said at a briefing Tuesday. “And they took her — they took her voice — I don’t know why they took her off but they took her off.

“She said that she had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients, I thought her voice was an important voice but I know nothing about her.”

Immanuel, who is also a Christian pastor, gave a speech on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, captured in a video first published by right-wing website Breitbart on Monday.

She said taking hydroxychloroquine was common in Cameroon and therefore not harmful.

Along with other medics from a group called America’s Frontline Doctors, she said that Americans were being denied a potential cure for COVID-19.

“Nobody needs to get sick. This virus has a cure — it is called hydroxychloroquine, I have treated over 350 patients and not had one death,” said Immanuel.

The website for America’s Frontline Doctors was registered just 11 days ago, a web domain age checker revealed — and the site was taken down by Tuesday afternoon.

Despite some early studies raising hopes that the drug could be used to cure the novel coronavirus, one subsequent larger scale trial has shown it is not effective as a treatment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has halted its trials, saying it doesn’t reduce death rates in patients with coronavirus.

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cautioned against using the drug to treat coronavirus patients, following reports of “serious heart rhythm problems” and other health issues.

And Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force, has reiterated these views.

“We know that every single good study — and by good study I mean randomized control study in which the data are firm and believable — has shown that hydroxychloroquine is not effective in the treatment of COVID-19,” he told the BBC on Wednesday.

But Dr. Immanuel has insisted taking hydroxychloroquine is not harmful because it is widely taken in her home country of Cameroon, where malaria is endemic.

Born in 1965, Immanuel graduated with a medical degree from the University of Calabar in neighboring Nigeria — and has a valid doctor’s license, according to the website of the Texas Medical Board.

She is also a pastor and the founder of religious group Fire Power Ministries in Houston, a platform she has used to promote other conspiracies about the medical profession.

On her Facebook page, Immanuel refers to herself as a “Physician, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Deliverance Minister, God’s battle axe and weapon of war.”

A lengthy bio on Immanuel’s Details section on Facebook calls the doctor a “prophet of God to the nations.” One sentence in the profile reads: “Her attitude toward demonic forces has been described as cut-throat, a warrior to the core.”

Immanuel is also a “wealth transfer coach.” Immanuel believes “you can be saved anointed, fire brand and wealthy too.”

Further research on Immanuel’s web page, now accessible only via an archived website viewer, as well as her YouTube account, reveals a long list of bizarre and unscientific beliefs.

Five years ago, she alleged that alien DNA was being used in medical treatments, and that scientists were cooking up a vaccine to prevent people from being religious.

Some of her other claims include blaming medical conditions on witches and demons — a common enough belief among some evangelical Christians — though she says they have sex with people in a dream world.

“They turn into a woman and then they sleep with the man and collect his sperm… then they turn into the man and they sleep with a man and deposit the sperm and reproduce more of themselves,” she said during a sermon in 2013.

Another issue that Immanuel targets is gay marriage, saying it can result in adults marrying children, according to the Daily Beast.

She also offers a prayer to remove a generational curse, originally received from an ancestor, but transmitted through placenta, the news website’s profile of her says.

In a 2015 video, Immanuel said: “There are people ruling this nation that is not even human,” describing them as “reptilian spirits” who are “half-human, half ET.”

Dr. Immanuel’s website, FirePowerMinistries.org, was offline Wednesday morning. Yet she continued to push her false claims about the virus on Twitter in the wake of Trump’s retweet.

In her latest video posted on Twitter on Tuesday, she asks patients she says she has cured of COVID-19 to come forward.

“If you don’t speak up we are getting trashed,” she says, encouraging them to use a hashtag when they post their video messages.

Her tweet has had more than 27,000 retweets.

“Big Tech is censoring Experts and suppressing the CURE,” she wrote. “I will not be silenced.”

Immanuel later shared the Daily Beast article about her theory on demons, calling it a “great” summary.

“Awesome job exposing these demons,” she wrote in a tweet to the story’s author. “Do you want to do a piece on witchcraft. And while we are at it I could cast some demons out of you.”

She later thanked various news outlets for giving her “free commercials” with their coverage of her fringe views.

“Yes America!” she wrote in a tweet Wednesday. “Some need deliverance from demon sperm.”

There is absolutely no scientific evidence — past or present — to support Immanuel’s claims about aliens or demons.

Immanuel says in the video that she went to medical school in Nigeria and is now a general practitioner in Houston, one of the hardest-hit cities by the coronavirus in the United States.

“I came here to Washington, D.C., to tell America nobody needs to get sick,” she said in the video. “This virus has a cure. It is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax. I know you people want to talk about a mask. Hello? You don’t need mask. There is a cure. I know they don’t want to open schools. No, you don’t need people to be locked down. There is prevention and there is a cure.”

After Facebook took down the America’s Frontline Doctors’ video Tuesday, she declared that Jesus Christ would destroy the social media giant’s servers if her videos were not restored to the platform.

Facebook has not reported an interruption on its services.

Monday’s event was backed by the Tea Party Patriots, a right-wing political group backed by wealthy Republicans seeking to re-elect President Trump.

The doctors believe neither masks nor shutdowns are necessary to fight the spread of coronavirus.

The group’s founder, Simone Gold, organized a letter to Trump calling for an end to lockdown measures in May.

Participants were encouraged to seek out interviews with social media influencers, as this was determined to be the best way to reach Americans.

Ralph Norman, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, was standing alongside the doctors when they delivered their news conference.

The debate has been increasingly dividing Americans along political lines, with proponents of hydroxychloroquine pointing to President Trump’s support of it while accusing critics of covering up its potential effectiveness.

(SD-Agencies)

The Facebook bio continues, “Dr. Stella has established a Christian resource center which supplies books, videos, CDs & other teaching materials to residents in her birthplace of Bali, Cameroon.” Immanuel is also credited with “crusades,” health fairs, raising money for orphanages, providing funding for small businesses and being the host of a radio and television show, Fire Power. The bio opens with, “I shoot first and ask questions later” and ends with Immanuel’s favorite quotation, “Lord teach my hands to war and my fingers to fight.”

Immanuel has also written several books about faith in a series called “The Occupying Force Series,” which includes titles such as Keys to Effective Spiritual Warfare and I Trust God As My Commander in Chief.