Perhaps it is time to take a break from Twitter, Martin.
Martin Shkreli, chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who raised the price of of a generic drug by 5,000 percent and drew the ire of
nearly everyone in the United States, donated to the
Bernie Sanders campaign and the campaign declined to keep it, donating it to a health clinic instead.
On Twitter, the pharma bro claimed to be enraged:
He went onto complain he'd broken his wrist in the temper tantrum, even tweeting an x-ray of his alleged broken wrist. But there was something suspect about the image. See it below.
The folks at Gawker did a reverse image search and found that exact same image, minus his apparently photoshopped name:
And according to Photoshop, the only difference in the two images is, in fact, the “Shkreli, Martin, 10/18/2015 21:32” seen on the image Shkreli tweeted out.
We asked Shkreli about his wrist over Twitter. While he claims that he’s currently “getting it braced,” when we prompted him about the similarity between the two x-rays, he stopped responding entirely.
Shortly after Gawker busted him, he began retweeting others, claiming it is all one big troll of Twitter followers:
Was he really "trolling" or did he just get caught in a huge lie? Either way, he seems to be relishing his status as one of the most despised people in the news today.
Paul Hogarth has more on the Bernie Sanders campaign email that sent Shkreli into a rage.