Pharma-Funded Group Tied to a Top Trump Donor Is Promoting Malaria Drug to the President
[link:https://readsludge.com/2020/04/06/pharma-funded-group-run-by-a-top-trump-donor-is-promoting-malaria-drug-to-the-president/|
The Job Creators Network was founded in 2011 by billionaire Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus, a major GOP donor who spent more than $7 million through outside groups to help elect Trump in 2016. Marcus has said that he plans to spend part of his fortune to help re-elect Trump in 2020.
Job Creator Network’s hydroxychloroquine campaign has been run in partnership with a nonprofit called Physicians for Reform, which works with FreedomWorks to promote deregulatory health care policies. FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group that was founded by the Koch brothers, also receives money from PhRMA. According to tax documents PhRMA gave $100,000 to Freedomworks in 2018.
Since Trump began claiming that hydroxychloroquine may be a cure for the coronavirus, there has been a shortage of the drug, which besides being used for treating malaria is also approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating lupus and arthritis. The shortage of the drug has prompted the Lupus Foundation of America and other other medical groups to issue a joint statement to the White House coronavirus task force to work with them to help ensure the drug, and a related drug, chloroquine, would be available to patients who need it to stay alive. “While we support rigorous clinical trials to investigate their potential use for COVID-19, it is imperative to preserve access to these medications for those patients whose lives and productivity depend on them,” the groups wrote.
Palmer report which I realize some of you don't care for, has article, too:
[link:https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/joseph-pizza-donald-trump-scandal/27454/|
Anti-corruption publication Sludge is reporting that Donald Trump received a $125,000 campaign donation last year from a hydroxychloroquine dealer named Joseph Pizza. Trump’s relationship with Mr. Pizza apparently goes back several years, and they’re close enough that Trump once sang “Happy Birthday” to Mr. Pizza’s wife, Mrs. Pizza.
More at both links.
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At the name of MF45, every corrupt and grifter knee bends.
