[dekhn]

I'm confused by your statement "We can now see that NIH scientists that approve drugs are allowed to approve drugs where they have a patent and commercial interest in the drugs they are approving, which is mind-bendingly wild that level of corruption is allowed."

The NIH does not approve drugs. If you have a citation that I can read that clarifies this point, I'm happy to read it.

[abe_m]

They don't directly approve drugs, but are involved in the testing pathway for some, and have been caught manipulating data to cause the approval.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2700754/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC545012/

Note the dates on those greatly precede Donald Trump ever running for the Presidency.