Explosive, if true. Corrupt? Certainly — in a moral sense, anyway. But would it have been illegal — even if it could be proven?
Donald Trump has long accused Pfizer of sitting on its clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine as a means to manipulate the 2020 presidential election. Now a British pharmaceutical manufacturer has given the Department of Justice some evidence that Trump had good reason to be suspicious. Federal prosecutors have opened a probe into Pfizer’s actions in late 2020, the Wall Street Journal reports, although it’s not clear what crime may have been committed:
Soon after President Trump won the presidential election in November, British drugmaker GSK brought an unusual claim to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior GSK scientist, who formerly worked at rival Pfizer, had told GSK…
