Trump doubles down on Merck attack

[riversedge]

Source: the hill



By Jessie Hellmann - 08/14/17 06:49 PM EDT




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President Trump doubled down on his attacks on a leading pharmaceutical company Monday night after its CEO resigned from one of his presidential councils.

Trump blasted Merck for "higher and higher drug prices" after chairman and CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned from the president's American Manufacturing Council, citing the administration's response to violence in Charlottesville, Va.

Trump had specifically named Frazier in a tweet Monday morning, saying he will now have more time to "lower ripoff drug prices."

Trump's criticism of Merck and Frazier is a reversal. Just last month he called Frazier a "business genius" and "one of the great, great leaders of business."...............................



Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/346556-trump-doubles-down-on-merck-attack

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Frazier was disloyal, He will feel Trump's wrath for the rest of his career IMHO



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Trump doubles down on attacking Merck after previously praising CEO as a "business genius" http://hill.cm/64gznIJ

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

2. Another hour, another crazy antic

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Oops, I forgot where I was (America, not DU) , i criticized dear leader

No longer allowed.

So i deleted it

Dear Mr Trump, I just love you, please dont have my family killed.

[dalton99a]

4. Please add bitcoins

Your request cannot be considered without sufficient payment

[riversedge]

5. cue me in. what are you talking about?

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. I say what I really feel about dear leader, then I delete it due to actual

fear for my life.

Then I mention that I did that and then I often will say something like:

"well, as bad as all this is, thank god we dodged the bullet of a woman who gave a speech once"

[George II]

7. WE WANT YOUR IP ADDRESS!

[riversedge]

9. that article in LBN that I posted is scary to me (the one about DOJ wanting IP addresses)

[riversedge]

8. Well, at least you get it out. good for the soul-even if you delete it.

[Corgigal]

10. Some one, give this man a tissue

and let him get back to his golf game.

Whiny as hell.

[Cicada]

11. New Merck drug Keytruda saved Jimmy Carter from cancer

Merck is not a firm accused of being overly greedy. They publish the details of how they determine prices. They take steps to make their drugs affordable in poor countries. And their new drug Keytruda is the first ever approved To treat any kind of cancer. It is working to help those with "incurable" cancers, such as Jimmy Carter. A year earlier and Carter would be dead. Now he no longer needs any treatment. The CEO when a private lawyer at a fancy law firm pro bono got innocent Bo Cochran off death row in Alabama. In summers he took sabbaticals to teach trial advocacy in South Africa. His dad was a janitor and to earn money at Penn State he raised tadpoles and newts which he sold to local businesses. He has almost doubled the stock price of Merck by spending more on research while not cutting costs to meet stock market expectations for short term profits. Trump previously praised him as a business genius. Wall Street agrees.

[3catwoman3]

12. This resignation was obviously more attention getting...

...than the events in Charlottesville, based on the rapidilty of his response.

[NCDem47]

13. Under Armour CEO just resigned from manufacturing council also

From what I understand, wasn't he pro-Trump? When does the Twitter storm start there? Or will it not? I spent all afternoon sending messages to all the CEOs on that council.

[thesquanderer]

14. re: "He will feel Trump's wrath for the rest of his career IMHO"

Trump's wrath may not mean much from prison. (Okay, maybe some wishful thinking there. But it could happen.)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Attacking a black CEO more important to tRump than condemning white nationalist murderer

Trump attacked Kenneth Frazier before and after his painful statement about nazis and KKK.

[yardwork]

16. Trump can kiss goodbye to any plans he had for health reform.

He can't do it without the big pharmaceutical companies and he just made an enemy of one of them. Those guys stick together.

[jmowreader]

17. Trump was fine with Merck's prices before

[Bengus81]

18. CEO of Merck is BLACK,this is a feel good moment for a racist like Trump n/t

[Sunlei]

19. Why do Republicans threaten the few American job provider corporations? That list is very short &

2 Unions are on the list.

[onetexan]

20. This Ignorant SOB 45 is vindictive as hell

hopefully this, if not anything else, will deter other corporate titans from joining his corrupt administration.