
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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