1/ From Heather Richardson’s newsletter today: “The president put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of the nation’s response to the pandemic. Kushner sidelined career officials who knew how to source medical supplies, for example, in favor of young volunteers...
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2/ ...from investment banks and consulting firms. The administration touted what its leaders called an innovative public-private partnership to respond to the country’s needs, but a report from Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) documented that as late as March 2, ...
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3/... .the administration was urging American businesses to take advantage of the booming market in personal protective equipment (PPE) to export masks, ventilators, and PPE to other countries. Porter’s office examined export records to show that in February 2020...,
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4/ ... ‘the value of U.S. mask exports to China was 1094% higher than the 2019 monthly average.’ Meanwhile, American health care providers were wearing garbage bags, and people were sewing their own masks.”
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5/ 560,000 Americans have died of Covid, sacrificed at the altar of private enterprise. Trump’s admin knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands of people to die. Yet, like many architects of unjust wars like Viet Nam & Iraq, they then retire from government to live lives of luxury.

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6/There should be a National Commission to research the US govt’s criminal neglect of the American people during a pandemic that’s already killed 560,000. This will be a stain on our history - not just the tragedy of the pandemic but the crassness of a government that didn’t care
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Replying to @marwilliamson
34,000 died from covid, the others died with covid
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You or I would get a speeding ticket if we were speeding ... but if the President starts a war ... or is negligent in responding to a pandemic ... and thousands of people die ... then that's just a bad decision ... or ... it's simply fake news!
Replying to @marwilliamson
These folks only know one way of doing business, whether private or public sector. What a disaster and a disgrace for the US.
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But you liberals called him racist for wanting to ban people from traveling from certain places