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# Trump Claims Pharma Industry Supporting Impeachment
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/trump-claims-pharma-industry-supporting-impeachment/
- Published: 2019-10-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T01:54:21.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, #legacy-id-D5145170

Is the pharmaceutical industry secretly plotting the demise of president Trump and supporting the current impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives? That is what Trump suggested to supporters ([see White House transcript](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-signing-executive-order-protecting-improving-medicare-nations-seniors-ocala-fl/?ref=fdaweb.com)) at an event in the Villages development in central Florida 10/3\. Without citing any evidence, Trump said his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug prices may have led pharma companies to urge what he described as the impeachment “hoax.”

“We’re lowering the cost of prescription drugs, taking on the pharmaceutical companies,” Trump told the Florida crowd. “And you think that’s easy? It’s not easy... They come at you from all different sides. I wouldn’t be surprised if the hoax didn’t come a little bit from some of the people that we’re taking on. They’re very powerful. They spend a lot of money — spend, I think, more money than any other group in the world actually, in terms of lobbying and lobbying abilities. And I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the nonsense that we all have to go through, but that I go through — wouldn’t be surprised if it was from these — some of these industries like pharmaceuticals that we take on...”

Trump has recently complained that the impeachment inquiry will prevent Congress from working with the administration to lower drug prices. Separately, some financial analysts have also discounted the odds of a drug pricing deal being reached as the attention and defense of an impeachment diverts attention away from normal legislative activities.