Martin Shkreli has veered from loathsome Pharma bro to insane Hillary Clinton conspiracy theorist

Martin Shkreli.
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Martin "Pharma Bro" Shkreli is offering $5,000 to anyone who manages to "grab a hair" from Hillary Clinton while she is on tour for her new memoir, What Happened. Posting on Facebook, Shkreli, 34, claimed he needed to "confirm the sequences I have" and said the payment would come "after the sequence matches."

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