No, they didn't. But people in conservative circles certainly did as a potential quick fix alternative to shutting down the economy and weakening Trump's core reason for re-election. A typical President, Republican or otherwise, would've had enough sense to not pedal the drug as a miracle cure, but we didn't have a typical President.
You don't trust anything the federal government says "these days?" A perfect segway, I think, why the FDA precisely put the restriction on HCQ in the first place. You had people "those days" who did trust certain people in the federal government over doctors and experts. Spreading information that had yet to be tested in trials.
"Their scientists are given conclusions before the research is performed"
Again, why there was a hold put on HCQ. Research was needed.
Except, if their conclusion was that HCQ was dangerous, which no one said it was, it would still be unavailable and considered dangerous now.
Your point is thoroughly debunked. Unless you have something else?