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RandySF

(57,632 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 10:58 PM Apr 2020

Colorado Democrat believes Trump awarded ventilators as political favor to vulnerable GOP senator

(CNN)Rep. Diana DeGette, a veteran Democrat, said that President Donald Trump's announcement that he would send 100 ventilators to Colorado smacks of a political favor to vulnerable GOP Sen. Cory Gardner after the federal government had not fulfilled the delegation's request for the devices.

"I think this thing that happened with Sen. Gardner and President Trump is very disturbing," the Colorado Democrat told CNN Wednesday evening. "What is the process here?"

DeGette said that while she wants the state to get every ventilator it can -- after initially requesting 10,000 -- the process employed by the White House shows that the President appears to be doling out the ventilators to his allies at a time when the virus is affecting people of all political persuasions.

"It seems that way to me," DeGette said when asked if it appeared to be a political favor to Gardner. "I was totally outraged."


https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/degette-gardner-trump-ventilators-favor/index.html

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Colorado Democrat believes Trump awarded ventilators as political favor to vulnerable GOP senator (Original Post) RandySF Apr 2020 OP
CO asked for 10000? Doesn't sound like a favor to me. JDC Apr 2020 #1
Two words: interstate compact Tweedy Apr 2020 #2
My eyes are wide open, I'm awake. Pure and simple vendictive retribution ffr Apr 2020 #3
K&R eleny Apr 2020 #4

JDC

(10,081 posts)
1. CO asked for 10000? Doesn't sound like a favor to me.
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 11:02 PM
Apr 2020

And I hate Gardner. This feels more like a snub.

Tweedy

(628 posts)
2. Two words: interstate compact
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 11:05 PM
Apr 2020

Colorado is my native state.

We should band together every state we can and form a compact to solve this together.

We need to sideline our reality tv president as soon as humanely possible.

ffr

(22,645 posts)
3. My eyes are wide open, I'm awake. Pure and simple vendictive retribution
Wed Apr 8, 2020, 11:08 PM
Apr 2020

Americans are dying and all tRump/Pence can think of is how they can profit from it and penalize blue states.

These traitors need to burn in hell. Who do they think they are playing God? They don't get to choose who lives and who dies.

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