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louis c

(8,652 posts)
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 02:18 PM Apr 2019

Here is a one year old story that is among Trump's biggest problems

Perdue Pharma sold highly addictive opioids and pushed their sales for years, causing 300,000 deaths and selling over 332 million pills since 1996. Rudy Giuliani was the attorney that helped secure a settlement in which Perdue Pharma's parent company paid one tenth of one percent of their profits in fines and was allowed to continue selling this scourge in a way that was good for business but bad for America. Trump continues to contend that we need to build a wall on our Southern border to keep out addictive and dangerous drugs. So, the question is, how high do we have to build a Southern Wall to keep Rudy Giuliani and Perdue Pharma out?

Link;
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/22/rudy-giuliani-opioid-epidemic-oxycontin-purdue-pharma

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Here is a one year old story that is among Trump's biggest problems (Original Post) louis c Apr 2019 OP
How is this a problem for Trump? Girard442 Apr 2019 #1
He wants to build a wall to keep out deadly drugs... louis c Apr 2019 #2
I appreciate the loathsome irony. Dems should push this message, along with all Trump's Karadeniz Apr 2019 #3

Girard442

(6,070 posts)
1. How is this a problem for Trump?
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 02:25 PM
Apr 2019

He backstabs the American people with one hand, accepts bribes with the other, and wails the whole time it's all the fault of immigrants. It's his dream.

 

louis c

(8,652 posts)
2. He wants to build a wall to keep out deadly drugs...
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 02:50 PM
Apr 2019

...obviously, this story shows the utter nonsense in that reasoning. Hence, my statement, "how high of a wall do we need to build to keep Perdue Pharma a Rudy Giuliani out". Rudy is associated with Trump and saved this company from being banned from selling Oxi to anyone doing business with the Federal Government (which is almost everyone, to one degree or another) so it could cause the death on hundreds of thousands more Americans.

Karadeniz

(22,513 posts)
3. I appreciate the loathsome irony. Dems should push this message, along with all Trump's
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 07:48 PM
Apr 2019

Shady connections. Birds of a feather....

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