Posted on 01/08/2025 2:56:39 AM PST by fluorescence
Pfizer’s chief executive Albert Bourla decamped with his top management team to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for an off-site meeting, in the latest attempt by corporate America to ingratiate itself with the US president-elect.
Bourla arrived with several members of his executive leadership in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday evening, according to flight records and two people familiar with the matter.
Pfizer’s executive team was using Mar-a-Lago for a planning meeting over several days, the people said. While there was no scheduled meeting between Bourla and Trump, the pair were likely to interact and the choice of venue was another example of outreach from the pharmaceutical industry to Trump, a person familiar with the meeting said.
Pharma executives have been bracing for the appointment of vaccine sceptic and former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr and his allies to run the US health department and its powerful agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Bourla, who worked closely with the Trump administration on the development of a Covid-19 vaccine, has been leading the charge to cosy up to the president-elect.
He met Trump at Mar-a-Lago in the run-up to November’s election, and then was instrumental in organising a December dinner with Trump, Kennedy, Eli Lilly chief executive David Ricks and Stephen Ubl, the head of PhRMA, the industry lobbying group, the people said.
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But now that you have conveyed that information, I serendipitously made the right decision, based upon the opinion as I spelled it out, that the story is nothing more than an attempt to elicit reactions over nothing. 🤣
Thanks for your information. 🙂👍
This isn't a meeting with Trump. These Big Pharma bigwigs are simply using the Mar-a-Lago venue for THEIR "offsite" meeting in hopes of bumping into Trump and kissing his ring. Trump holds ALL the cards, and they know it.
People with a "sinking feeling" as we are on the cusp of the greatest 4 years in American history should try harder to shake their gloom-and-doom mode.
Good.... one less to hunt down and throw in Gitmo.
Trump should require them all to be inoculated up to their a-holes with their own crap, before allowing them on his property.
Because Im not a sheep.
Trump getting rolled is what happened. But the Democrats will suggest a lot more. (I’m not sure that the MSM will play along though. They spent their last shred of public credibility.)
You are disappointed that you are not a sheep?
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