Trump accuses New York hospitals of 'hoarding' masks and ventilators without evidence

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Source: raw story





Published 1 min ago on March 29, 2020


President Donald Trump went off on a rant accusing hospitals, doctors and nurses of hoarding equipment and intentionally exaggerating the things they need.

Speaking in the Rose Garden Sunday, Trump asked, “How do you go from 10 to 20 to 300,000 masks? Where are the masks going, are they going out the backdoor?”

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“They have to look into that in New York,” Trump said, noting that he heard they went from 10,000 masks to 300,000 masks.
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“I’m I don’t think it’s hoarding, it’s maybe worse than hoarding,” Trump said.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-accuses-new-york-hospitals-of-lying-about-ventilators-and-masks-theyre-using/

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what an asshole!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Which means he is hoarding them somewhere.

[The Magistrate]

2. True, Sir

The critter only charges others with things he is doing himself.

[FarPoint]

18. Absolutely...

The mirror affect.

[IronLionZion]

24. Navy has been flying in cargo planes full of supplies every day

from Asia and anywhere else they can be bought. Trump is definitely hoarding it somewhere so he can help his rural base after we die in the cities.

[captain queeg]

26. Exactly true. Could someone glue his pie hole shut!

[alfredo]

39. That's not the one he talks out of.

[JDC]

35. That is exactly what it means.

[sdfernando]

46. Just posted the same though in another thread

he projects what he is doing on others.....so, yeah...he is hoarding them and the backdoor is the backdoor of the Whitehouse.

[ashredux]

3. Just when you think he cannot get any lower...BAM..HE DOES IT

[underpants]

4. What's next, truck drivers and grocery workers?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213198094

[ananda]

5. Remove him now!

Get him out of government and the media!!!

[SunSeeker]

6. He is such a piece of evil shit.

[Docreed2003]

7. BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING SICK YOU DIPSHIT

They're using the equipment because they're fucking inundated with patients! Carry your fat ass up to New York and you might actually see that you fucking imbecile.

[ffr]

8. Weird. Is he implying that we need oversight for the stimulus or isn't he?

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Somebody's in the black market

MSM should have their ear to the railroad tracks on this topic

[BittyJenkins]

10. Sadly he is way too stupic

to understand what the word pandemic mans. That is sad for all of us.

[iluvtennis]

11. So much ignorance from cretin trump.

[djacq]

12. Told my wife that he'll lie within 2 minutes.

Beat me to it by 1 minute.

If the Federal Government was shipping out 50,000 Ventilators everyday, why would Gov. Cuomo and Gov Whitmer plead that they don't have enough?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. NY & Mich don't have enough because tRump sending triple shipments to Florida. Broken ones to CA. nt

[dalton99a]

13. Kick

[turbinetree]

14. First off asshole, your still a fucking sexual predator, a malignant narcissistic POS, psychopath,

do you fucking know where those mask came from possibly for here and they are still working on trying to get some masks.......................... let me give you a fucking clue.............................

Stephon Marbury sets up deal to deliver 10M masks to NY amid coronavirus crisis
By Rich CalderMarch 29, 2020 | 10:22am | Updated...................................

Since you think that this thing is still a fucking HOAX, and that you are playing one state against the other just for your fucking ego and cult of psychopaths to place you on some pedestal about you....................your still a fucking asshole...................and trying to be like president which you are not, your still a fucking CON...................

If one state and its governor says something about your lack of empathy and leadership you go off the deep end of shit twirling around in your golden toilet between your fucking ears, and do some nasty shit and just don't care ...................

This man has and is attempting to do something that you should be fucking doing, and he done more than you have in the last 48 hours, which is still fucking nothing, except wave or fucking salute to some ship for a photo op and then come back and march your worthless ass on your ego podium to babble like raving lunatic every 5:00 PM just like one track psychopath on scratchy vinyl record that just keeps repeating itself............................


https://nypost.com/2020/03/29/stephon-marbury-plans-to-deliver-10-million-masks-to-ny-amid-coronavirus-crisis/

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[elias7]

16. If I was using them correctly (not reusing), I'd be going thru 20 x normal

I usually wear gloves a few times a shift in the ED, masks often never.

Using them correctly, I should be going thru 15-20 masks/ day and 20-30 pairs of gloves. Not to mention that n95 respirators should be disposable so you don’t contaminate one person to the next, or yourself.

[GoneRonin]

17. It is worse than that....

He isn't accusing NY of hoarding. He is accusing them of reselling them.

That will be the new story - everything boils down to "how can I make a buck from this"-itis that Trump has....

This is how a mobster would approach it.

[Walleye]

27. I know. Makes no sense.

Nurses would be exposing themselves to deadly pathogens so the can make a few bucks? Then there is the fact that if they weren’t moral and ethical people, they wouldn’t be in that profession.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. tRump is hoarding & sending to Florida. It's a noisy distraction from his own crimes. . . . . nt

[Heddi]

40. We're not getting them in FL

Me and my husband are RNs. I spent my weekend sewing masks. His hospital - the largest in the area - is telling nurses to make their own bc they have none.

All of the masks here are being sent to NY. We have none.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. I'm sorry to hear that. Reports say Florida has been getting more than other states

Here's the tweet I saw that said Florida got/getting 3x shipment:

Link to tweet

MA received 17% of requested medical supplies from the Trump admin. ME: 5%. CO: 1 day's worth.

FL got everything they requested. + an identical shipment the next week. oh, and a 3rd is on the way.
https://washingtonpost.com/national/...

Some reports indicate that the Federal government has been sending out supplies from the reserve according to population with some extras sent to heaviest outbreak states.

Here's why Florida got all the emergency medical supplies it requested while other states did not
March 21 (March 11) (Propublica)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213142781

Florida has received all the supplies it asked for
March 29
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/29/21198704/emergency-covid-19-supplies-fema-states-federal-government

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/why-did-florida-get-all-the-emergency-supplies-it-requested-when-other-states-didnt/Content?oid=27064142

[Heddi]

44. Well, all I can tell you is that tweet is wrong

Or the hospital isn't giving to employees.

Also, this:

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/27/florida-medical-supplies-diverted-to-nyc-pinellas-has-a-2-week-stock-left-for-first-responders/

Florida medical supplies diverted to NYC. Pinellas has a 2-week stock left for first responders.
Officials confirm that gowns, gloves, masks and other supplies originally destined for Florida have been sent to help New York hospitals.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. Thanks. But most especially: Thank you and your husband for the care you provide at all times. . nt

[Heddi]

47. Thanks for your thanks

I'm actually lucky in that I work from home and have for the last 5ish years. Mr Heddi, tho... 😔

[progree]

21. Isn't New York the epicenter, with cases doubling about every 2 days? IF they are

getting a little bit ahead of their immediate needs right now, is it any surprise they are getting ready for a few more doublings over the next fortnight?

[Mr.Bill]

22. Hey Donald, just consider it to be

another time when you were out-negotiated. Just like every other negotiation in your life.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. How fucking stupid is that?

Projection on his part.

[Evolve Dammit]

25. Don't forget: He loves chaos. He is enjoying all of the attention and pressers are the new rallys

[Walleye]

30. I believe he enjoys it because he's a sadist. He sure looks miserable, though.

[lunasun]

28. I sorta got this kinda crazy vibe from his comments when he went off from hoarding to the

I don’t think it’s hoarding it’s maybe worse than hoarding part
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213198562

[Walleye]

31. He did have to hide a smirk when he mentioned a possible 2 million dead.

[BeyondGeography]

29. Disgusting

IOW, par for the course.

[Turbineguy]

32. Has trump figured out yet

that his best chance for coming out of this relatively unscathed is to be taken out of office under the 25th Amendment? He may not be able to steal the full $200 billion, but he won't go to prison either.

[randr]

33. He should go directly to one of these hospitals

and show us the proof

[Under The Radar]

34. everything he says is explainable by the next next lie he tells

[keithbvadu2]

36. As Donald looks toward stealing $500billion.

[dhol82]

37. Not two trillion?

[SergeStorms]

38. Fuck off, Donnie!

What a psychotic piece of shit. I hope at least some of his MAGAt asshole followers are waking up to see what a vindictive, childish, ego-maniacal, lying, shit stain of a fuck-wit Trump really is. Probably not, but he's showing everyone else how low he can go.

[ResistantAmerican17]

41. How low he can go????

If this sick Projection-incarnate fuck fell in the Mariana Trench he’d bring a shovel.

[Bengus81]

43. Doesn't want anyone know about the hugelllyy medical shipments to China on Feb 7th

that he authorized. Now we're running short so he calls the NY crisis FAKE and hoarding. There is NO end to this fucks insanity.

[Evolve Dammit]

48. Is MSM reporting on this?