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Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. lashed out at former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, taunting him over what appear to be his deep ties to Big Pharma.
“Donald Trump owns stock in Pfizer and J&J, which bought nice tickets to his inauguration and placed pharmaceutical shills high in his administration,” Kennedy tweeted, referring to a separate tweet from a journalist outlining what he described as a number of conflicts of interest between Trump and the pharmaceutical industry during his time in the White House.
“That’s how Washington works. It’s not an exception, it’s the rule. It’s a form of legalized bribery,” Kennedy added. “This kind of thing has become so normalized that many people take it for granted. I promise you that corruption will no longer be normal when I am president.”
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The journalist Kennedy referred to, Pedro Gonzalez of Chronicles Magazine, noted in his tweet Pfizer’s $1 million donation to Trump’s presidential inauguration committee following his 2016 election victory.
Gonzalez also pointed to the subsequent nominations of former Trump administration officials Scott Gottlieb and Alex Azar, and their connections to the pharmaceutical industry as executives and lobbyists, respectively. He then cited the former president’s financial disclosure forms filed last month that showed he owns stock in the pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
Gonzalez claimed that Trump “killed” plans for a vaccine safety committee, which he said would include Kennedy, because of his connections to Big Pharma. According to a 2018 report by The Guardian, the group was supposed to be made up of vaccine skeptics and explore a possible link between childhood vaccinations and autism.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar speaks at a news conference in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday, November 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Kennedy claims the Trump White House contacted him about being part of the group, but then said he heard nothing from the White House after several meetings with Trump’s transition team, according to The Guardian report .
Trump bragged last year about how huge Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical fortune is after the company received $1 billion for Operation Warp Speed. He protested when the J&J drug was temporarily pulled from the market when people died from it before it was fully developed. nix this year,” Gonzalez added.
Fox News Digital has confirmed Pfizer’s 2016 donation to Trump’s inauguration committee Data from the Federal Election Commission.
Former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (AP/Getty Images)
