The STUPID Rat Bastard is handing out ventilators as a form of patronage

[yuiyoshida]

A seemingly innocuous tweet President Donald Trump posted about Colorado receiving ventilators from the government actually raises troubling questions about the extent to which the president is using lifesaving medical equipment as a form of political patronage.

On Wednesday Trump announced that he was sending 100 ventilators to Colorado — a development he credited to a request from a Republican senator facing an uphill reelection campaign this year, Cory Gardner.

Link to tweet

That tweet might look unproblematic, and perhaps even praiseworthy on its face. Colorado is one of many states asking for more lifesaving supplies in the middle of a global pandemic.

But recent reports have suggested Trump has been playing politics with the allocation of medical supplies. CNN broke news last Friday that the federal government swooped in and blew up a deal that Colorado’s state government, led by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, made with a private company to acquire 500 ventilators. FEMA, instead, seized the ventilators for itself, leaving Colorado high and dry.

“A congressional source told CNN that many of the orders Colorado places for supplies, including an order for 500 ventilators, has been canceled, because the items are being bought by FEMA,” CNN reported.

Polis subsequently confirmed the report during a CNN appearance in which he criticized the move, saying of the federal government, “either you’re buying them and you’re providing them to states and you’re letting us know what we’re going to get and when we’re going to get them. Or you stay out, and let us buy them.”

more...
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215578/trump-ventilators-coronavirus-cory-gardner-colorado-jared-polis-patronage


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[uponit7771]

1. He will hold governors hostage

[yuiyoshida]

3. Trump is NOT ONLY STUPID...

He is fucking Evil.... holding Guns to the head of infirmed people, telling Governors that you better damn well Like Trump if you want any of his candy (Ventilators)

Please, Vice President Biden, the second that you are sworn in your first priority should be to have TRUMP arrested, and preparing for a Trial that will put him in Prison for LIFE...

[Totally Tunsie]

5. Yes and Yes.

1) Evil, cruel, and sadistic.

2) LIFE isn't long enough!


207 days 'til Nov. 3.

[canetoad]

2. I hope trump

And his spawn are holding round-table exit strategy meeting.

[yuiyoshida]

4. I tend to go with the opinion of Bill Mahr....

Trump will try to find some way to hang on to his power, but Biden has to act fast and have him detained by the Federal Marshalls... he will be receiving NY State and Federal indictments soon.
Than they can toss his ass in prison and throw away the damn key!!

[smirkymonkey]

6. Didn't he just say today that we have so many ventilators that he was going to send some

to Europe and Mexico? That doctors and hospitals were SO happy with how he has been handling everything and had everything they needed and that there were more ventilators available than were required? How we were in such "great shape" and all the governors and medical professionals were "very happy" with how the federal government was handling everything?

He is so fucking full of shit. He has blood on his hands. How dare he play political games with people's lives! He needs to pay dearly for this.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Schiff warned that trump would do to governors what he did to Ukraine.