REVEALED: Trump wasted half a billion on 10,000 ventilators that won't arrive until September 2022

[riversedge]

Source: raw story






Published 5 hours ago on August 2, 2020
By Daniel Villarreal, New Civil Rights Movement

A new report from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform found that the Trump Administration repeatedly delayed an Obama-era order from the health-technology company Philips for 10,000 ventilators, wasting half-a-billion dollars for machines that won’t even arrive until September 2022.

According to the report, in 2014, the Obama Administration signed a contract with Philips to add 10,000 ventilators to the nation’s stockpile by June 2019. Though Philips delayed the fulfillment until November 2019, had they been held to that deadline, the nation would have had plenty of ventilators for when the coronavirus epidemic started in March 2020.......................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/revealed-trump-wasted-half-a-billion-on-10000-ventilators-that-wont-arrive-until-september-2022/

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[In_The_Wind]

1. Why is he trying so hard to harm America?

[SunnyATT]

8. If he's not a Russian agent, he's doing a great imitation.

[In_The_Wind]

11. Welcome to DU, SunnyATT.

You may be right.

[homegirl]

27. A fortnight has passed...

CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG...

Isn't today two weeks after Donald John Trump promised the American people he would unveil a bigger, better, (insert superlative in this space) health care plan, in two weeks.

Will it be broadcast by Twitter or will he hold a presser to make the announcement, what time today?

[cstanleytech]

14. Better question is why are the Republicans especially those in the House and Senate trying so

hard to hurt America.

[PatSeg]

17. Destruction seems to be in his nature

Maybe that is why Putin chose him to be his lackey.

[iluvtennis]

23. cuz trump is Putin's Puppet.

[In_The_Wind]

24. Yes. He really is.

[bluestarone]

35. lol your (putin) holding just one?

YOU have a whole set (SENATE RETHUGLUCONS) of them! You can dangle them anytime you want!

[iluvtennis]

36. True. nt

[hotdamn00]

2. Well, if he gets re-elected

we'll probably need them.

[Doodley]

3. At 50,000 a piece. Doesn't seem like a good deal, does it?

[sandensea]

7. Someone's laughing all the way to the bank

And they probably have the RNC, Bitchy Mitchy, and right-wing SuperPACs all over their checkbook ledger.

[mpcamb]

33. Probably Jared lining his own pockets again. Follow the money on this one.

You know there's a scam involved.

[sandensea]

34. +1

"I don't understand Republicans these days," an acquaintance once told me.

"It's easy," I said, "Remember Hal Holbrook: Follow the money."

[bullimiami]

4. trump sure is crappy at managing anyone else's money.

i guess it makes him feel real big to toss it around.
i mean whats a half-billion. meh.

of course every penny that nears his personal orbit he grabs and hangs onto for dear life.

[Salviati]

13. Don't underestimate him...

... he's crappy at managing his own money too.

https://www.vox.com/2015/9/2/9248963/donald-trump-index-fund

[enough]

5. Link to Committee's statement:

https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-subcommittee-investigation-reveals-how-trump-administration-deprived

[jimlup]

6. yes but you know how the repukes will counter...

they will simply lie. Then it will become a "both sides are equally guilty" thing in most people's minds.

[FM123]

9. And his base keeps insisting that this idiot is a smart business man!

While Philips had sold ventilators to other purchasers for prices as low as $9,327 per unit, the Trump Administration ended up paying $50,000 per unit.

“The documents show that the Administration accepted Philips’ first offer without even trying to negotiate a lower price,” the report reads.

[Newest Reality]

10. Wow,

We are really fortunate to have a spiffy, expert businessman who knows how to get things done and who makes artful deals like there's no tomorrow.

Hey, they might have been asking $100,000 a piece for those ventilators delivery in FIVE years.

Such a deal!

In fact, I have NEVER really seen him demonstrate that in office. He is just a bossy braggart. Drunk monkeys could negotiate and make better deals.

[procon]

12. Did Trump do this just for another chance to

blame Obama for something? In contriving a shortage of critically needed ventilators how many Americans died as a result?

Now I'm wondering if their might be other similar orders for medical supplies that Trump deliberately quashed to add to the crisis as a way to shift the blame to China, Democrats or Obama?

[Illumination]

15. But Rump says that he's doing an "excellent" job! He creates one disastor after another!

[Ford_Prefect]

20. Based on the degree of influence Putin has I'd say it was encouraged if not arranged by Vlad.

Trump is greedy as is Kushner, but neither has the larger sense of context required to see this as an advantage. IMO the tactic speaks loudly of Putin derailing US infrastructure and strategic function in government.

[stillcool]

16. makes sense....

after all, buying ventilators does not help the GOP. Those that matter buy their own. Wasting good money on ordinary people is not good policy.

[IronLionZion]

18. They found efficiencies and cut wasteful spending

[usaf-vet]

19. Make sure they get delivered to the NATIONAL emergency supplies.

Then CLAW BACK every penny he stole from every source he stole it from. Then do the same to whatever his kids stole. Leave them only whatever a 40-hour workweek at minimum wage would earn. Or prison wages WHICHEVER IS THE LESSER OF THE TWO. Also, don't forget to strip him of all the life long benefits a former president receives. Especially U.S. Secret Service let him struggle in the world like the minimum wage Americans.

For all the other grifter's prison wages.

[CrispyQ]

21. Is there a good reason why we don't impeach him again?

???

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. The last 3.5 years has been about waste.

Wasted time, wasted money, wasted opportunity, wasted oxygen and wasted skin.

[yardwork]

25. Trump lied and said Obama left the cupboards bare.

[LittleGirl]

26. Don't forget the 600 million

doses of hydrogloriquine. Those are sitting in a warehouse somewhere.

[keithbvadu2]

28. Commission/finder's fee for the Trump/Javanka family?

Commission/finder's fee for the Trump/Javanka family?

[JDC]

29. Guaranteed there is grift here. Nobody could be this bad at "Deal Making"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Now I understand how he bankrupted a Casino

[Hekate]

31. "Wasted"? Depends on the goal. If the goal is to bankrupt the Treasury, Trump is succeeding wildly

nt

[NCjack]

32. Trump -- world's best businessman fails by more than 2 years to meet

a critical deadline, one that only he can fix.

[ck4829]

37. Kick