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WASHINGTON — If the Trump team wanted to win passionate support for Dr. Scott Gottlieb to serve as FDA chief, they couldn’t have devised a better strategy than to float the name of another leading candidate: Jim O’Neill.

Earlier this week, sources close to the Trump transition team said they were considering O’Neill, the managing director of an investment fund run by Peter Thiel, the billionaire Trump donor.

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