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Trump Repeats Winning Elections, Accused Pfizer of 'Corrupt Games'


Sat 21 Nov 2020 | 03:24 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

US President Donald Trump has renewed the claim that he is the winner in the presidential elections that his country saw two weeks ago, and accused drug companies, especially Pfizer, of intentionally delaying the announcement of a vaccine for the Coronavirus in order to harm his re-election.

In an event held at the White House yesterday evening on lowering drug prices, Trump reiterated, in his first public statements in days, about the election result, "I won."

He accused drugmaker Pfizer of playing “corrupt games” with the timing of COVID-19 vaccine data in order to sink both his re-election and his drug price reforms.

“Big Pharma ran millions of dollars of negative advertisements against me during the campaign, which I won, by the way, but, you know, you’ll find that out — almost 74 million votes,” he said.

Trump continued: “Pfizer and others even decided to not assess the results of their vaccine, in other words not come out with a vaccine, until just after the election. That’s because of what I did with ‘favored nations’ and these other elements — instead of their original plan to assess the data in October.

“So they waited and waited and waited, and decided they thought would come out with it a few days after the election. And it would have probably had an impact. Who knows, maybe it wouldn’t have. I’m sure they would have found the ballots someplace, the Democrats and the group. These corrupt games will not deter us from doing what’s right for the American people.”

Today, it's already been two weeks since Democratic candidate Joe Biden was declared winning the US presidential election, while Trump faces successive setbacks in his unprecedented strenuous attempt to nullify the result.

Democrat Biden is preparing to officially assume the presidency on January 20, while Trump still refuses to accept the matter and seeks to nullify or reverse the results through appeals and recount in a number of states, claiming without evidence of widespread fraud.

After a string of defeats on the court yards, three sources familiar with the matter said the Trump team was pinning its hopes on an effort to push Republican-controlled legislatures in the crucial states that Biden won to set aside the results and declare Trump the winner of the vote.

The state's Department of Public Services, run by a Trump-appointed official, still does not recognize Biden’s victory and is preventing his team from entering government headquarters and from using the funding normally available to the incoming administration.