by Sharon Rondeau
(Jun. 22, 2023) — In a video address posted to his TruthSocial account Thursday afternoon, 45th President and leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump pledged to “take on Big Pharma” if he is returned to the White House.
His remarks centered on the cost Americans pay for medications produced by major drug manufacturers, often referred to as “Big Pharma,” and Joe Biden’s rescinding of his executive order proposing that the United States pay the same for prescription drugs as other “most favored nations.”
The executive order, actually a series of four such orders reducing the amount Medicare Part B would pay for drugs, among other provisions, received strident objections from the drug companies.
The Trump proposed”rule,” USA Today reported, was to take effect on January 22, 2021, but “Biden’s White House chief of staff, Ronald Klain, announced a regulatory freeze of ‘any new and pending rules’ as Biden took office on Jan. 20.” An apparent attempt to perform “fact-checking” at the time, the outlet claimed the Trump rule was not truly rescinded at the time. However, in August 2021, it was reported that “On August 3, 2021, Department of Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra announced a proposed rule describing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) intention to rescind a Trump-era rule concerning Medicare Part B drug pricing. The rule was scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday.”
The term “Big Pharma” has also been used for manufacturers of vaccines, including the COVID-19 “vaccine” brought rapidly to market following the pandemic declaration early in 2020 and as Trump was finishing his term in office.
Even after he allegedly lost the 2020 election, Trump criticized “Big Pharma” for its “army of lawyers, lobbyists, and bought-and-paid-for politicians” while planning to forge ahead with his plan to lower drug prices. At the time, Trump commented of his new policy, “I just hope they keep it. I hope they have the courage to keep it, because the powerful drug lobby, big Pharma, is putting pressure on people like you wouldn’t believe.”
In his remarks Thursday, Trump, who nevertheless strongly advocated for the production of effective vaccines and pharmaceuticals to treat COVID-19 as a result of his “Operation Warp Speed” initiative, did not address the growing clamor over the questionable safety of Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID-19 injectables, telling Fox News’s Bret Baier in a recent interview he doesn’t “want to talk about vaccines.”
“Crooked Joe Biden likes to pretend he stands up to Big Pharma, but in fact, I was the only president in modern times who ever took on Big Pharma, and I took it head-on,” he stated in the 2:34 video. “Biden cancelled my tough-on-pharma policies the moment he had a chance. As president I signed a historic executive order declaring that the United States government would pay the same price for pharmaceuticals as other foreign countries, and no more…this would have saved American patients billions and billions of dollars, but shortly after taking office Joe Biden rescinded my executive order, stabbing patients and U.S. citizens, and especially our seniors, right in the back.”
In a video released June 7, if re-elected, Trump pledged to probe the “unexplained and alarming growth in the prevalence of chronic illnesses and health problems, especially in children. We’ve seen a stunning rise in autism, autoimmune disorders, obesity, infertility, serious allergies and respiratory challenges. It’s time to ask, ‘What is going on?'”
“On June 12, The Federalist suggested Trump, in issuing the statement, was “On June 12, The Federalist suggested Trump, in issuing the statement, was “Taking [a] Page from RFK Jr. In Targeting Big Pharma And Medical Tyranny.”
The nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., RFK Jr., who declared his presidential candidacy as a Democrat, is founder and chairman-on-leave of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), which advocates for children’s health and opposes vaccine mandates and other situations in which patients may not have given informed consent before receiving a vaccine or other form of treatment.
Trump will promise anything and everything to get back in power and hopefully avoid prosecution for his crimes. During his first term, Big Pharma was allowed to take advantage of the most profitable ruse in history, the idea that everyone in the world should be vaccinated multiple times for a new cold virus that had very little, often no noticeable effect on healthy people. Then, there is everything else that went along with that, such as constant testing of the general population using methods that were subject to a very significant rate of false positives. The high rate of false positives made the problem seem much bigger than it actually was and triggered a bunch of other expensive actions that richly benefitted Big Pharma and harmed the American people and the world. Trump is the best friend that Big Pharma ever had.