1/Everyone should be clear why the president has NOT been willing to invoke Defense Production Act to direct manufacture of PPE. It’s the same reason we didn’t accept tests early on from WHO: to do so would undercut the ability of someone to market a product in the private sector

No. He’s doing it so that he can say he built a ‘strong economy’ because his friendly swamp monsters, AKA corporate lobbyists, are willing to stroke Trump’s ego as long as they don’t sacrifice profits in the name of saving lives. And Trump is desperate for compliments and praise