THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA — President Donald Trump speaks during an event today in central Florida, where he signed an executive order calling for further privatizing of Medicare. (Photo — Joe Raedle/Getty)

Phar­ma to blame for im­peach­ment woes? Yep, Pres­i­dent Trump just sug­gest­ed that about Amer­i­ca's least fa­vorite in­dus­try

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump sug­gest­ed to­day with­out ev­i­dence that the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­dus­try is be­hind the new im­peach­ment in­quiry from House De­moc­rats.

“I would be very sur­prised if the hoax didn’t come a lit­tle bit from the peo­ple that we’re tak­ing on… I wouldn’t be sur­prised if it was from some of these in­dus­tries that we take on, like phar­ma,” Trump said. He was speak­ing in cen­tral Flori­da at an of­fi­cial White House event on Medicare. HHS sec­re­tary Alex Azar, a for­mer pres­i­dent of the US di­vi­sion of Eli Lil­ly, was in at­ten­dance.

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