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Does anyone else worry that trump will hold ventilators from (Original Post) onecaliberal Mar 2020 OP
He sent Pritzker the wrong masks. Freethinker65 Mar 2020 #1
Yep, has to be intentional. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2020 #2
Could be. Trump admitted he was jacking up prices and outbidding states for PPE and ventilators. Freethinker65 Mar 2020 #4
See Propublica re Ventilators! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #10
Nah, my worry plate is overwhelmed already? Brainfodder Mar 2020 #3
I would bet you're in good company. onecaliberal Mar 2020 #6
Oh definitely! Brainfodder Mar 2020 #9
I think that's a given. n/t GP6971 Mar 2020 #5
An unqualified YES. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2020 #7
Yes, thankfully we have the companies here that fixed them very quickly. In fact Newsom onecaliberal Mar 2020 #11
I think he would like to hold them, but he'll be advised not to do so as it would look bad Ohioboy Mar 2020 #8
How many months are we into this crisis and still do NOT have a tests. onecaliberal Mar 2020 #12
of course bdamomma Mar 2020 #13
No doubt he is, one Leghorn21 Mar 2020 #14
I don't doubt it. He's mean and he's petty. Shrike47 Mar 2020 #15
Donnie death will try to do exactly that. He and the senior members of his admin are EVIL! niyad Mar 2020 #16
He is already doing crap lunasun Mar 2020 #17
Kick burrowowl Mar 2020 #18
He took a self congratulatory bow today for having 50,000 ventilators coming in 100 days. ooky Mar 2020 #19
Or broken vents. MerryBlooms Mar 2020 #20

Freethinker65

(9,995 posts)
4. Could be. Trump admitted he was jacking up prices and outbidding states for PPE and ventilators.
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 09:37 PM
Mar 2020

Trump also admitted Florida got what it asked for because he prefers Florida.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
3. Nah, my worry plate is overwhelmed already?
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 09:36 PM
Mar 2020

Him suddenly getting wery wery ill, now that I wanna wead about!
[say in your best Elmer Fudd]

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
7. An unqualified YES.
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 09:38 PM
Mar 2020

I would put nothing past him. He sent 170 ventilators to CA that were broken, expired or missing parts. THAT was NOT an accident. It was an intentional FU to Gavin Newsom.

This is obscene. This is not a game. Peoples' lives are hanging in the balance and that fat, incompetent fuck is giving himself high fives over his handling of this. Well, trumpie, when the books are written (and they will be), you're not going to like the results.

onecaliberal

(32,738 posts)
11. Yes, thankfully we have the companies here that fixed them very quickly. In fact Newsom
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 09:42 PM
Mar 2020

Made a comment at his presser today that if anyone else had broken down or old ventilators laying around broken or spare parts that they could send them to California, we have great companies here that can fix them quickly.

Ohioboy

(3,237 posts)
8. I think he would like to hold them, but he'll be advised not to do so as it would look bad
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 09:39 PM
Mar 2020

Then again, who knows with tRump? Whatever he does he'll probably say one thing and then change it after claiming he never said it in the first place. That's about all we ever been able to count on from him.

bdamomma

(63,785 posts)
13. of course
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 09:45 PM
Mar 2020

this is all about his revenge on those who don't kiss his ass. He needs to be knocked off his pedestal. He is manipulating the American people he must be getting his orders from Putin.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
17. He is already doing crap
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:12 PM
Mar 2020

CNN)Illinois
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/politics/illinois-governor-wrong-masks-ppe/index.html

Pritzker, a Democrat, said at a news conference that the White House told him the state would receive 300,000 N95 masks from the federal government. The N95 respirator mask is what doctors wear when treating individuals infected with a virus.
Instead, what Illinois received were surgical masks, which are not considered respiratory protection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and are not totally effective in preventing coronavirus transmission.
Demonstrating their famously hot and cold work relationship, Trump accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week of requesting, and then improperly storing, too many ventilators as New York City and state struggle to keep up with the virus.
Trump went further in asserting that he had a "big problem" with the "young," "woman governor" of Michigan -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer -- who he slammed as "way in over her head" and as someone who "doesn't have a clue" as she asked for medical equipment from the federal government.

ooky

(8,902 posts)
19. He took a self congratulatory bow today for having 50,000 ventilators coming in 100 days.
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:28 PM
Mar 2020

Too bad if you need one in the next 100 days and your hospital is out. You die.

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