Less than 24 hours after tweeting that he was an “avid supporter” of Jeb Bush, embattled drug executive Martin Shkreli said he was just joking.
{mosads}“My date made the tweet about Jeb Bush as a joke,” Shkreli wrote Saturday night. “I don’t follow politics except for having a profound hatred for all politicians.”
Shkreli, the former founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, faced criticism last year for hiking the price of a drug used to fight parasites from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
After a hearing on Capitol Hill last Thursday when he refused to answer questions about drug prices, Shkreli tweeted: “Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.”