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Showing Original Post only (View all)An explosive new documentary details how Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force consisted mainly of [View all]
20-something volunteers buying PPE with personal email accountsWhen Max Kennedy Jr. volunteered to help out on Jared Kushner's White House COVID-19 Supply-Chain Task Force, he thought he'd be helping out senior staff with rote tasks like data entry.
"My old boss called me and said he heard Kushner's task force needed younger volunteers who had general skills and were willing to work seven days a week for no money," Kennedy, now 27, said in the forthcoming documentary about the Trump team's coronavirus response, "Totally Under Control." The film, which was made in secret over the last five months, is slated for on-demand release October 13.
So Kennedy traveled to DC and showed up at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Once there, he said volunteers were led to Conference Room A, a windowless, underground meeting space. TVs covered the walls, all blaring Fox News.
After they sat down, Kennedy said representatives from FEMA and the military came in and gave them a "pep talk." The officials told volunteers that they needed to procure "the stuff" for the US government Kennedy said they were referring to personal protective equipment, or PPE.
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"We thought we'd be auxiliary support for an existing procurement team," Kennedy, who is the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, said in the film. "Instead, we were the team."
Kennedy said he and a dozen unpaid, inexperienced volunteers had become a core component of the US government's efforts to procure PPE.
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An explosive new documentary details how Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force consisted mainly of [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Oct 2020
OP
Apart from the incompetence of the "planning," which was no surprise at all,
BobTheSubgenius
Oct 2020
#8
My anger over what the Crooked Hissolini Admin has done is nearly matched by
Dark n Stormy Knight
Oct 2020
#11
Jared scanned an article about some people somewhere who might have done something ...
marble falls
Oct 2020
#12