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FILE - In this June 8, 2006 file photo, then Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar meets reporters at the HHS Department in Washington. Azar was a top HHS official during the George W. Bush administration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Letter writer says Trump’s atrocious vetting system allows morally bankrupt nominees like Alex Azar to seek high political office.
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Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, appeared Tuesday for his confirmation hearing.

Azar is a former executive of the multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly.

Trump’s former cabinet appointee for secretary of HHS resigned in disgrace after his overuse of military and private charter flights cost taxpayers up to $1 million. Politico’s investigation team made the explosive revelation that when Azar was the former president of Eli Lilly’s U.S. operations, the company tested the company’s highly profitable erectile dysfunction drug Cialis on children in an effort to extend the company patent. Azar helped game the patent system by testing a sex drug on children in order to extend their profits.

This is yet another example of Trump’s atrocious vetting system that allows morally bankrupt nominees like Azar to seek high political office.

Tejinder Uberoi
Los Altos

 

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