Trump Dodges Accountability For Medical Supply Crisis By Blaming States

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Trump Dodges Accountability For Medical Supply Crisis By Blaming States

Despite the federal government's vastly greater resources, the president insisted state governments need to find their own solutions as the coronavirus spreads.

By Nina Golgowski, HuffPost US

ASSOCIATED PRESS

https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-says-states-supply-medical-needs_n_5e739dbcc5b63c3b648c366d?ri18n=true

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Pressed by a reporter Thursday on the dire shortage of medical supplies and testing to deal with the coronavirus, President Donald Trump deflected responsibility for the crisis and instead put the burden on governors.

Speaking at what’s become a daily White House press briefing on the pandemic, Trump insisted that states should take the lead in supplying the badly needed medical equipment and protective items, despite the federal government’s vastly greater resources and capabilities.

“Governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work,” he said. “The federal government’s not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. You know, we’re not a shipping clerk. We’ll help out wherever we can.”

The president’s remarks about governors being the ones obliged to deal with mask and ventilators shortages were reminiscent of his Friday comment that “I don’t take responsibility at all” for complaints by state officials about the scarcity of testing for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

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Without the buying power of the federal government the states will pay much more for products. More money for entrepreneurs.

[volstork]

1. Abnegation

of duty.

Asshole.

[Afromania]

2. Can I be candid? I'm gonna be candid.

But I hope he gets Covid right up his sorry flabby misbegotten turtle pecked ass. I hope one of his lungs falls out and his fevers have fevers. I hope that every single son of a bitch that's allowing this shitgibbons political existence to continue gets it too, and dies. That's right DIES, from this shit as so many are going to.

So, so, so many people are going to get sick and die while they play games with getting supplies to the front lines of this thing. These fucking republicans are sitting around jerking each other off trying to enure rich people get richer on the back of this. They've given them time to hoard, fuck the stock market, run off to whatever little piece of isolated land they can and it makes me sick It makes me angry. No just for me for me but for everybody else including the innocents housed with fucktarts that support trump.

People are going to DIE. PEOPLE.... ARE..... GOING ......TO...... DIE...... Far more than it has to be and they, the gop are prancing around like fairies on pinhead pretending they have no part in this. Pretending that they aren't advocating a cash grab for the rich. Those miserable fucks, these miserable miserable fucks.

Fuck him, fuck them, fuck each and every GOP simp forever.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. I do NOT want to see Oranganus die in office. I want him to die in prison near end of long sentence.

He must be tried and convicted to serve as an example for generations.

He must be tried so that the full extent of the deadly tRump family gang's crimes can be exposed.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Thank YOU!

You have expressed my feelings perfectly. I hate that motherfucker and everyone who enables him with the fire of a thousand suns!

[gratuitous]

3. The next step is to blame counties and cities

And very soon, we'll be treated to the sight of the President blaming the victims for getting sick.

[uponit7771]

5. +1, ... then in the end blame Clinton's emails

[WyattKansas]

7. Double down on it and let him really unload on counties and states...

All of those counties and states are not blue and a lot of them are occupied by local republicans. Let fat donnie meltdown and piss off every one of them with his rants. It will be a lot more personal to more republicans trying to fight this virus that he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground and they will pass that along to fellow local republicans.

[kairos12]

4. Get used to that. He will use that excuse from now until election.

[Marie Marie]

6. Could somebody please give this idiot a job description for

being the President of the United States? He seems to think his only duties are hosting adulation rallies, tweeting stupid and insulting shit, watching Fox News, playing golf and passing the buck and blaming others for all of his incompetence.

[mvd]

9. He never takes blame for anything

He’s a real psychopath.

[Caliman73]

11. Well then all that money that Blue States send to the Federal government should be held back.

We need it to pay for our own expenses. If the Federal government isn't going to be using it to help in an emergency then we should keep it to use for our own emergency back home.

Ridiculous idiot. Doesn't understand Federalism at all!