Trump's Pick For His Drug Czar is a Whore of Big Pharma

His choice to be his "Drug Czar," Rep. Tom Marino, was in league with Big Pharma to push opioids (this, after hypocritical Trump made an issue of the opioid epidemic during the campaign). Kudos to the Washington Post and 60 Minutes for exposing this bullshite. Thank God we still have a free press in this country.

Trump seems to like political whores running things. He also appointed whores of the coal industry to head the EPA and DOE.

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"Following a report that his nominee to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy had played a leading role in weakening federal agents’ ability to stop suspicious shipments of opioids, President Trump told a press conference Monday that “we’re gonna be looking into” the choice, Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa.

An explosive investigation by the Washington Post and “60 Minutes” found that Marino, who had accepted large donations from the pharmaceutical industry, had been a prime sponsor of legislation last year that undermined the ability of Drug Enforcement Administration agents to stop drug distributors from providing corrupt doctors with opioids for the black market. According to the reports, the companies had ignored DEA warnings to stop selling hundreds of millions of pills for years under suspicious circumstances — raking in billions in profits.

Marino, who was an early supporter of Trump’s presidential campaign, was the top advocate for the bill, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act."