As Trump lash­es out at Fra­zier again, J&J's Alex Gorsky says he's not aban­don­ing pres­i­den­t's coun­cil

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J&J CEO Alex Gorsky isn’t join­ing any ex­o­dus off of the pres­i­dent’s man­u­fac­tur­ing coun­cil. And he of­fered his rea­sons why just be­fore Trump un­leashed a new at­tack on Mer­ck CEO Ken Fra­zier and the oth­ers who have fol­lowed him out of the White House group while fresh­ly stir­ring a pot of con­tro­ver­sy.

For more than a day, J&J kept qui­et in the face of queries from me and many oth­ers cov­er­ing bio­phar­ma whether its CEO Alex Gorsky would fol­low the lead of Mer­ck CEO Ken Fra­zier and re­sign from the coun­cil in protest to the way Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump han­dled a dead­ly en­counter in Char­lottesville, VA over the week­end be­tween right-wing ex­trem­ists and the pro­test­ers who greet­ed them.

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