Republican Party officials hid COVID-19 mask purchases by labeling them 'building maintenance' in fe

[bluewater]

Source: BusinessInsider

Republican Party officials hid COVID-19 mask purchases by labeling them 'building maintenance' in federal disclosures

Think "building maintenance," and you probably imagine plumbing, a new coat of paint, or a replacement toilet-paper dispenser.

But when the Republican National Committee in June spent more than $14,000 on "building maintenance," none of its facilities were getting a face-lift.

Instead, the RNC purchased face masks designed to limit the spread of COVID-19, according to Insider interviews and a review of federal campaign-finance disclosures released earlier this week.

The RNC ordered the masks at a time when President Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans were refusing to cover their faces in public. The purchases show Republican leaders were taking the coronavirus more seriously than they'd been publicly letting on.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-purchase-face-masks-covid-coronavirus-trump-republicans-building-maintenance-2020-7

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Of course the Republicans are disingenuous liars about the pandemic. They were actively discouraging people from wearing masks; they didn't care that this was causing needless deaths.

[louis-t]

1. You know, it's one thing to be blindly stupid.

It's another to deliberately mislead someone in a way that could cause them to die.



fuckers

[bluewater]

2. Absolutely soulless, typical Republicans.

[tiptonic]

14. Saving

They were saving/hiding them for themselves. Because they r 'essential workers'. They do so much for others.

[procon]

3. Do as I say, not as I do.

If Republicans aren't lying, then they're stealing something. Their constituents are no better as supportive enablers. The Republican base voter is not interested in anything that doesn't match the approved party propaganda. That would require an effort in critical thinking, an underdeveloped skill set for any rightwinger.

As a consequence, Republican politicians enjoy a fact free public career unburdened by troublesome truths because their supporters will let them get away with everything, either through apathy or agreement.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. RICO.

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act(RICO) Law

18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968 | (1970)
Legal Definition of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

made criminal “enterprise,” or illicit activity that is run like a business, illegal and applied harsh penalties to those engaged in it. RICO and later amendments include provisions against fraud, corruption, violence, and activity in furtherance of human trafficking and slavery. It allows federal prosecutors broad powers to attack organized crime elements or other groups involved in certain “patterns” of illicit conduct. It has been used successfully against a wide variety of offenders, and many states have modeled laws on its provisions.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/legal/Racketeer%20Influenced%20and%20Corrupt%20Organizations%20Act

[pandr32]

12. Absolutely!

[NBachers]

21. The entire republican party's a serial RICO violation. Every crime plugs into every other crime.

Add them all up in their totality, and they become the worst criminal enterprise in United States history.

How many library rooms would it take to list every crime committed by this malicious criminal organization?

[ancianita]

5. They were all in on the scam against blue states more than red. Dog whistles, code lingo and all.

Because at least Republicans who used the right lingo got what they needed.

Republicans -- the hopeless dead soul gang of death panel politics.

This was an organized plot of mass death and they all went along.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. What cowards. Everyone of them, a yellow bellied coward. NT

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Imagine...

[IronLionZion]

8. Dems would know better than to listen to these liars

so their own GOP voters would be the ones who listen to their BS and fall victim to it. They did the same thing when they were selling their stocks based on insider intelligence briefs.

[PennyK]

9. Faux too

My daughter works in their Accounting Dept in NYC. She and everyone else has been working from home since March. No end date in sight.

[Lonestarblue]

10. Perhaps they were hiding the purchase from Jared and FEMA.

Under Jared's orders FEMA confiscated many shipments of supplies ordered by states. Do we even know what happened to those supplies? Did Jared sell them on the black market as Trump suggested NY hospitals were doing? Trump projects the illegal/unethical things he is doing on others, so that suggests that he or Jared was profiting from confiscated shipments.

[dalton99a]

11. Kick

[progree]

13. May 11 - the White House required everyone in West Wing to wear masks

so yes, they've been hypocritical as hell, starting at the very top.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/11/white-house-issues-memo-requiring-staff-to-wear-masks-in-west-wing.html

White House issues memo requiring staff to wear masks in West Wing, CNBC, 5/11/20
... The directive from the White House management office was laid out in a memo to staffers Monday afternoon, NBC reported. ... The memo also asked staff members to avoid visiting the West Wing, where the Oval Office is located, unless it is necessary, the sources told NBC.

[keithbvadu2]

15. False billing... If it has to be hidden like this, they know it's hypocrisy.

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If it has to be hidden like this, they know it's hypocrisy.

[diva77]

16. what else is on their list of "building maintenance" expenses??

K&R for exposure

[calimary]

17. And not only are the republi-CONS disingenuous liars about the pandemic,

They take all their cues from their "dear leader," AKA "that guy who lies all the time."

As Michael Dukakis once said, "the fish rots from the head."

[JDC]

18. I'd like to also know who the bought from.

Paywall. Surely it was a closed purchase. Maybe even set up as a "subscription"

[Mr. Ected]

19. You know, I pretty much despised these guys even before Trump

But now, it's all I can do to contain my inner core hatred of them.

Hillary was too kind. Deplorable is being generous. They would have been hanged in olden times for their mendacity.

[riversedge]

20. more #Republican corruption.

[CRK7376]

22. Cowards, every freaking one of them

Not to mention hypocrites......

[BigmanPigman]

23. Where are these masks and who is and who isn't getting them????.