Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine and offered cash

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Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine and offered cash so it would be exclusive to the US

Thomas Colson and Andrew Dunn AT Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-tried-to-pay-germans-scientists-for-coronavirus-cure-2020-3

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Mar 15, 2020, 12:26 PM

An employee of the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac demonstrating research workflow on a vaccine for COVID-19 at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, on Thursday. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

President Donald Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine so he could secure exclusive rights to it for the US.

The newspaper Welt am Sonntag reportedthat the Trump administration had offered large sums of cash to Germany-based biotech company CureVac to secure rights for the vaccine work, "but only for the USA."

The German government is battling back, offering financial incentives to the company to remain in Germany.Karl Lauterbach, a senior German politician and professor of epidemiology, said in response to the report: "

The exclusive sale of a possible vaccine to the USA must be prevented by all means. Capitalism has limits."

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[Karadeniz]

1. He's obscene.

[RockRaven]

2. He's so fucking crass he cannot even imagine someone having motives beyond money.

Goddammit I loathe everything about this asshole.

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3. Yup.

[brewens]

4. MUHWAHAHAHA! We'll make the rest of the world give us their oil reserves for vaccine! n/t

[brewens]

5. And another thing. Could you think of anything that might make the Chinese claim that we

were responsible for releasing the virus more credible?

[IcyPeas]

6. I wanted someone to ask him about this today at his press conference

this story was all over the media, and here at DU, yesterday. the press must have known about it. this guy is a monster. I would've liked to see his denial of this.

[Talitha]

7. "I would've liked to see his denial of this."

He'd have done it without a second thought, the soul-less SOB.

[MiniMe]

8. Want to bet he wanted to buy the vaccine for himself to profit off of, and not for the United State

Does anybodty else think that, or am I the only one who hates tRump that much