Former President Donald Trump vowed Monday to create a special presidential commission to investigate a “decades-long increase in chronic illnesses” as some of his White House rivals run to his right on vaccine safety.
Trump blamed “Big Pharma,” the term members of both parties use to deride the world’s pharmaceutical giants, for the well-documented rise in the percentage of children and adults reporting chronic illnesses over the last several decades. His remarks were a dog whistle to vaccine-sceptical Republicans...