Jared Kushner and Federal stockpiles

[dasmoocher]

@Great_Antibob

His main success, however, was being born to rich parents.

He’s like his father-in-law. He was born on third base and acts like he hit a triple.

Actually, being dimwits, I think they think they hit a touchdown.

@QuickSilver

I think the calculation that Trump d’Orange and his dildo son-in-law came up with was that if the administration cannot supply a sufficient number of respirators to the states, it becomes the administration’s fault for having an insufficient stock pile on hand and being ill prepared. However, if it was never meant for the states, then the states should have been better prepared and the callous bastards get to wash their hands of the responsibility. That is the reason they have left the sourcing of the PPE’s and everything else to the states. Because they knew they’d be blamed when they failed to respond. I think they are counting on making this the states’ problem as giving them their plausible deniability.

Exactly. If it’s federal, it makes them responsible. And as Trump has said: “I take no responsibility.”

Trump refuses to take the blame for anything but will take credit for any success whether he had anything to do with them or not.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

The more we will know about him, the more we will love to hate him. It’s in the family. In both of them. And I hope we will learn more and more about them all after this presidency.

Nope.

The refrain then will be: "“the long national nightmare” is over. (sound familiar?) “We need to move on from this dark period in history. Pointing fingers and assigning blame will not bring people back to life. a long, drawn-out trial would only further polarized the public. So let’s just pretend that Trump never even happened, Mkay?”

This will be followed by Republican obstructionism and refusal to cooperate with Democrat politicians in any way, shape or form, and complete and utter lies and bending of reality; business as usual.

[Morgyn]

@QuickSilver

I think the calculation that Trump d’Orange and his dildo son-in-law came up with was that if the administration cannot supply a sufficient number of respirators to the states, it becomes the administration’s fault for having an insufficient stock pile on hand and being ill prepared. However, if it was never meant for the states, then the states should have been better prepared and the callous bastards get to wash their hands of the responsibility. That is the reason they have left the sourcing of the PPE’s and everything else to the states. Because they knew they’d be blamed when they failed to respond. I think they are counting on making this the states’ problem as giving them their plausible deniability.

Of course, when a state(or a county) does manage to buy PPE, the feds swoop in and confiscate it. So far, no one seems to know where it’s going. I’ve heard rumours (true? false? can’t find a cite yet) that the seized equipment (often N95 face masks) are being rerouted to private distributors for resale. So the states or counties bought the equipment, it was shipped, and before it could arrive, POOF!

But Trump says the states have to buy their own equipment.