Coronavirus: anger in Germany at report Trump seeking exclusive vaccine deal.
Source: The Guardian
MPs and ministers criticise display of self-interest and accuse US president of electioneering
German ministers have reacted angrily following reports US president Donald Trump offered a German medical company large sums of money for exclusive rights to a Covid-19 vaccine.
Germany is not for sale, economy minister Peter Altmaier told broadcaster ARD, reacting to a front page report in Welt am Sonntag newspaper headlined Trump vs Berlin.
The newspaper reported Trump offered $1bn to Tübingen-based biopharmaceutical company CureVac to secure the vaccine only for the United States.
The German government was reportedly offering its own financial incentives for the vaccine to stay in the country.
The report prompted fury in Berlin. German researchers are taking a leading role in developing medication and vaccines as part of global cooperation networks, foreign minister Heiko Maas told the Funke Mediengruppe research network. We cannot allow a situation where others want to exclusively acquire the results of their research, said Maas, of the centre-left SPD.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/not-for-sale-anger-in-germany-at-report-trump-seeking-exclusive-coronavirus-vaccine-deal
Boxerfan
(2,531 posts)Should be a capitol crime with serious consequences.
Should be.....
DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)Now we know what he and his spawn are up to and why no one is home at the White House to deal with the Pandemic.
Grifting to the 100,000,000th power...........
calimary
(80,700 posts)Good Grief - only for the United States ?????
We have to get rid of him while most of the rest of the world is still speaking to us. Way to wind up with no friends, donald!
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)About 40%+ of the nation supports this clown. At least that's what our betters in the corporate media tell us.
patricia92243
(12,590 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)Now small, mean, petty, grasping, greedy.
northoftheborder
(7,566 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)should simply arrest and hold the top executives in this company.......that would pop all of their and Trumps balloons.......
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I can understand trying to assemble a premiere team with expertise to develop a vaccine; but, what kind of person would do it only for USA.
usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)He doesn't do anything that DOESN'T make money for himself.
My guess is he is still trying to get a Nobel Prize for himself. I'd bet he would brag that ONLY he could make the deal with the Germans.
He CANNOT BE TRUSTED!
DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)And he and his spawn will own it and the profits will go exclusively to the Trump corporation......
There is no way in hell he would do this for the good of the U.S.A. especially if he can con the taxpayers into paying for it.......
The U.S. Taxpayers have been paying tens of millions non stop into his businesses since he was inaugurated and he has been getting away with it, why would he become benevolent at this point. Especially give the opportunity for the World's greatest Grift of all time.
I would bet alot that that is why there are no tests available in the U.S. Ivanka and Jared are working out for the Trump Corporation the manufacturing of the tests under an exclusive agreement that no one else can manufacture tests and their company supplies them at an outrageous price.
And they would also do the same Trump Corporation thing with the labs that would be diagnosing all the tests in the country.
You gotta believe that All major corporations are working night and day to figure out any and all opportunities to make money off the virus.......
procon
(15,805 posts)funding? Did he expect Nancy Pelosi to just fork over the cash for his secret, off the books deal? Or did he have a row of fat cat investors (like he said from the beginning!) all lined up and eager to profit from his clandestine deal?
You know Trump would charge the govt and healthcare providers whatever the market would bear... Remember the "Pharma Bro" guy?
From the "wall" money he's already confiscated from the DOD, that's where he'll get the money from!!!
Peregrine Took
(7,408 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)Some skanky ethics Republicans got. Shame on them.
librechik
(30,663 posts)impossible!
And put Incestvanka in charge.
She'd sell it for a 500% markup - but with a pink ribbon of course.
usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)Hiawatha Pete
(1,767 posts)How certain special interests and their mouthpieces in the GOP would seek to profiteer from misery, suffering & death and hold the world hostage. Not unexpected, but still no less disgusting.
zentrum
(9,865 posts).....As if not sharing with the world is the only way in fact to save us all.
samnsara
(17,572 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)re-election.
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)That in his sociopathetic, twisted mind he believes we will see that he's trying to "save America" and when folks see that we will all be so grateful to him.
samnsara
(17,572 posts)orleans
(33,987 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(56,904 posts)When Jonas Salk invented the (un-patented) polio vaccine, President Eisenhower offered it to every country that welcomed the knowledge, including the Soviet Union.
Now weve got this asshole.
Link to tweet
Same with Nils Bohlin at Volvo. Their generosity has benefited mankind, and raised the profile of their company
Whenever Trump manages to lower the bar even further I just think of the damage it's doing to America's reputation
Link to tweet
still_one
(91,965 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)...nationalism, like his idiotic Wall. We know how his mind works by now.