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The Idiot Projector is back at it again: Deny, Deflect, Defame …
TRUMP COMMENTS ABOUT HOSPITAL MASK THEFTS SPARK BACKLASH FROM DOCTORS
Newsweek — March 30, 2020
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Kenneth Raske, president of Greater New York Hospital Association, said in a statement that medical workers "deserve better" than Trump's comments as they deal with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus tearing through the world.
"New York's health care workers are treating exploding numbers of COVID-19 patients around the clock —willingly and without complaint. My daughter, an ICU nurse at a New York City hospital, is one of them," Raske said.
"The only thing they ask for in return is adequate amounts of personal protective equipment. PPE is the single thing that separates them from being COVID-19 patients themselves.
"They deserve better than their president suggesting that PPE is 'going out the back door' of New York hospitals. I urge you to focus on what you—and all of us—can do to help."
Rob Davidson, an emergency room doctor in West Michigan who is also executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare campaign, tweeted: "Accusing heroic healthcare workers in NYC of stealing #PPE and #ventilators is an all-time low from @realDonaldTrump.
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Meanwhile we’re learning that …
CNN — March 30, 2020
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Concerns about a dwindling supply of PPE are not new. Back on February 7, the World Health Organization
sounded alarm bells about "the limited stock of PPE," noting demand was 100 times higher than normal for this equipment.
Yet the same day as the WHO warning, the Trump administration announced that
it was transporting to China nearly 17.8 tons (more than 35,000 pounds) of "masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials." As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted in the press release announcing this shipment, "These donations are a testament to the generosity of the American people."
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Here is the pompous Pompeo Press Statement touting all the PPE he helped ship out of America’s “back door” …
The United States Announces Assistance To Combat the Novel Coronavirus
PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
This week the State Department has facilitated the transportation of nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to the Chinese people, including masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials. These donations are a testament to the generosity of the American people.
Today, the United States government is announcing it is prepared to spend up to $100 million in existing funds to assist China and other impacted countries, both directly and through multilateral organizations, to contain and combat the novel coronavirus. This commitment – along with the hundreds of millions generously donated by the American private sector – demonstrates strong U.S. leadership in response to the outbreak.
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Meanwhile back on the “We’ll soon be to Zero cases” ranch …
Trump Sent Nearly 17.8 Tons of Medical Supplies to China After First Coronavirus Case in the U.S. When Shortages Hit, He Blamed Obama
TheRoot.com — March 30, 2020
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And then, when it all went to shit, Trump did what he does best and lied on former President Obama’s good name and claimed that his administration was the reason for the shortage of masks and other PPE.
The United States now has some 140,904 (and counting) cases of the coronavirus and a president who can’t read at grade level and struggles to add three-digit numbers. Social media has been bombarded with photos of hospitals looking like war zones and nurses wearing homemade protective gear; some have even taken to social media with the hashtag #GetMePPE.
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I suspect, that as a nation, were going to have do more — than simply switch off the TV, every time the Conman forces his way into our living rooms and dens.
We might actually have to call BS! (after shutting him off).
And fact-check, fact-check, fact-check!
Because when …
Trump Lies People Die.
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Afterall the brave professionals on the front-lines of this war — deserve no less, from a grateful nation.