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An unconventional health care speech: Trump wishes pharma stocks would drop, and implies drug industry is behind impeachment

In a decidedly unconventional health care speech, Trump wished pharma stocks would drop and implied the drug industry is behind impeachment.
President Donald Trump at an Oct. 3 event in The Villages, Florida.

WASHINGTON — President Trump is back in attack mode — and drug companies are again a clear target.

In a rowdy, hourlong speech at a sprawling Florida retirement home, Trump renewed his pointed criticisms of the pharmaceutical industry, even implying they may have been behind the recent push to open a formal impeachment investigation.

“We’re lowering the cost of

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