Trump tweets cartoon of train hitting CNN reporter

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidzV6hW9OOidyCF600-7IwMBOqJxsedM6hC-DCFzPIZ-N8EIBw0RI4H6iHNZbX7xbBFAlBNM-BfsILeoFt1urSCJc-wEyUDH0uQWLaGZ5H2e6umTZMc7bIjBmfji7tu8ltPVGTOPtPAVo/s1600/_97343378_captwg4ure.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="375" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidzV6hW9OOidyCF600-7IwMBOqJxsedM6hC-DCFzPIZ-N8EIBw0RI4H6iHNZbX7xbBFAlBNM-BfsILeoFt1urSCJc-wEyUDH0uQWLaGZ5H2e6umTZMc7bIjBmfji7tu8ltPVGTOPtPAVo/s400/_97343378_captwg4ure.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;">US President Donald Trump has posted an image of a train hitting a CNN reporter three days after a hit-and-run left one person dead at a far-right rally.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 19px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The cartoon, which Mr Trump deleted after tweeting, depicts the cable network logo being run over by a "Trump Train" symbolising his supporters.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The president also apparently accidentally retweeted a post by someone calling him "a fascist".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump is in New York where he faces a second day of protests.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White House officials told NBC the train image - captioned "Fake news can't stop the Trump Train" - had been "inadvertently posted" and when "noticed it was immediately deleted".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In another presumably unintentional retweet, the US president shared - and then also deleted - a post by someone who said of him: "He's a fascist, so not unusual."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Twitter user, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/MikeHolden42/with_replies" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@MikeHolden</a>, had been commenting on a Fox report saying that Mr Trump could be planning to pardon Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40780659" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">who was found guilty</a> in July of racially profiling Hispanic people.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Holden, of Burnley, England, promptly changed his Twitter bio to read: "Officially Endorsed by the President of the United States. I wish that were a good thing."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Asked by the BBC if he thinks the "endorsement" ended when Mr Trump deleted the tweet he laughed and said: "Oh, absolutely. I don't think he really meant to endorse it.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don't think he intended to say, 'yup, that's me, the big ol' fascist!'"</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'm an internet nobody!" added Mr Holden, a 53-year-old IT consultant, adding the response has been "absolutely bananas".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's rare you get that kind of attention from the president, isn't it?" Mr Holden added.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump has drawn criticism from both ends of the political spectrum since Saturday's so-called Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman was killed.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counter-protester and 19 other people were injured when a car rammed the crowd. A 20-year-old man is facing murder and other charges.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump did not immediately condemn the white supremacists, instead blaming "many sides" for "hatred, bigotry, and violence" in the university town.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Monday he sought to clarify his views, denouncing the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis by name.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But in the process he took a moment to demean a CNN reporter.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Asked by journalist Jim Acosta why he had waited so long to condemn the hate groups, Mr Trump responded: "I like real news, not fake news."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pointing the finger at the White House correspondent, he added: "You are fake news."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump frequently targets the so-called "fake news media" in tweets to his nearly 36 million followers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In May he shared a clip of <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40474118" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">himself pummelling professional wrestler with a CNN logo</a> superimposed on his face.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Late on Monday, Mr Trump also retweeted a post from an account linked to one of his supporters known for fuelling <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-38156985" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">conspiracy theories, such as "Pizzagate"</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The post by Jack Posobiec linked to a story from an ABC affiliate and said: "Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that?"</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Pizzagate conspiracy theory claimed Hillary Clinton's campaign chief was running a paedophile ring out of a pizza parlour in Washington.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump awoke for the first time as president in Trump Tower on Tuesday, tweeting that it "feels good to be home".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He arrived at the Manhattan skyscraper on Monday night amid throngs of protesters calling for his impeachment.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three people were arrested, and police expect further demonstrations on Tuesday.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Late-night show hosts turned their fire on Mr Trump on Monday night.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon, who usually avoids political polemic, rebuked the president.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The fact that it took the president two days to clearly denounce racists and white supremacists is shameful," Mr Fallon said on his NBC show.</div></div>

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Three CEOs resign from Trump council over Charlottesville

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4mtHIv8a8Mrt3MQNzgSezznjKAMk-dVtq0yAAzG-UfI0lwnlW9m869ZCKN6fyEkPenoTdP0RzBXMoSI6lJOJYxFohkv8t-yHZJ8QwmwnDfR34BXWMf8-EY5yuPjG8T_1wQz0tEw2Szzc/s1600/rts1014r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1027" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4mtHIv8a8Mrt3MQNzgSezznjKAMk-dVtq0yAAzG-UfI0lwnlW9m869ZCKN6fyEkPenoTdP0RzBXMoSI6lJOJYxFohkv8t-yHZJ8QwmwnDfR34BXWMf8-EY5yuPjG8T_1wQz0tEw2Szzc/s400/rts1014r.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="articleLocatio</span>n">The chief executives of Intel Corp, Merck & Co Inc and Under Armour Inc resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, following Trump's initially tepid response to weekend violence at a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.</span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">"I resigned from the council to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues...," Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich said in a blog post. <a href="http://intel.ly/2fFOjAd" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 128, 0); color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">intel.ly/2fFOjAd</a></div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Kenneth Fraizer, the chief executive of drugmaker Merck and an African-American, said he left the advisory council because of the president's reaction after the violence between white supremacists and counter protesters. Frazier cited the need to "take a stand against intolerance and extremism."</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The AFL-CIO, a federation of labor unions that represent 12.5 million workers, said it was considering pulling its representative on the committee.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">After the white nationalist rally turned deadly on Saturday, Trump initially said that many sides were to blame. On Monday, in a statement, Trump denounced neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan as criminals and thugs, bowing to mounting political pressure as critics assailed him for not singling out white supremacists.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The CEO of Under Armour, Kevin Plank, announced his resignation from the council in a Twitter posting. "We remain resolute in our potential and ability to improve American manufacturing," said Plank. "However, Under Armour engages in innovation and sports, not politics."</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Plank was criticized last winter by some of Under Armour's biggest stars over his support of Trump, comments that basketball star Stephen Curry echoed.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The demonstration in Charlottesville by hundreds of white nationalists took a deadly turn on Saturday when a car plowed into a group of counter protesters and killed one person.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">"America's leaders must honor our fundamental views by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal," Frazier said in a statement announcing his resignation. (<a href="http://bit.ly/2fFnITM" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 128, 0); color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">bit.ly/2fFnITM</a>)</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">"As CEO of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism," he said.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Trump responded shortly later in a tweet, saying, "Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!"</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Trump doubled down on his attack later in the day, tweeting that Merck "is a leader in higher & higher drug prices while at the same time taking jobs out of the U.S. Bring jobs back & LOWER PRICES!"</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The son of a janitor, Frazier joined Merck as general counsel of one of the drugmaker's subsidiaries in 1992, working his way up to CEO of the company in 2011.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">He made his name as the company's top lawyer, steering it through daunting litigation over Vioxx, its widely used painkiller that was withdrawn in 2004 after being linked to heart attacks.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Many observers thought Merck would eventually have to shell out $10 billion or more to thousands of plaintiffs over the drug's withdrawal. But Frazier's legal strategy led to a $4.85 billion settlement in 2007, allowing Merck to refocus on its pipeline of experimental medicines.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Merck shares closed up 0.5 percent on the New York Stock Exchange, roughly in line with the wider market.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Frazier frequently made political contributions during the 2016 election, donating to both Republican and Democratic members of Congress but making no donations to a presidential candidate during the year.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The political PAC maintained by Merck and funded through donations from Merck employees made over $1.1 million in candidate contributions during the 2016 campaign - but did not contribute to Trump or his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, according to documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission.</div><span class="midArticle_0" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_1" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_2" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; 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line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_13" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_14" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_15" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_16" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_17" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><br /><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents the pharmaceutical industry and lobbies on its behalf in Congress, declined to offer a statement of support for Frazier or to comment on Trump’s reaction.</div></div>

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