Kelly O'Donnell's question at today's presser

[IcyPeas]

There it is. Trump admits he has NOT used the Defense Production Act to get companies to produce the amount of protective equipment American health workers desperately need.

This is a complete failure of leadership. Period .#coronavirus #GetMePPE

Link to tweet

[elleng]

1. Liar liar liar

[SCantiGOP]

5. Yesterday, he wavered between lying about this and refusing to answer

He must have had Jared write up this answer for him overnight.

[Turbineguy]

2. Using the DPA would stop price gouging.

Who will think of the profits?

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Wow,this question coming from a Homer.

When some one yells you are a liar,then I might care about these Campaign Rallies and Sucker events.

[kimbutgar]

4. Asshole is looking for ways to monetize this for his own profit

Jared is looking for companies he can shake down,

[procon]

6. It might cut into his investments and affect his

profit margin. It might also make those companies under orders very angry and they could retaliate by cutting off their fat donations to Republicans which would have an impact on the elections.

[Politicub]

7. They're not even stopping companies from price gouging

This administration can not be kicked out of office fast enough.

And that HHS douche -- what a useless dumbass. He couldn't or wouldn't say where they're shipping masks. Just that they're accessing.

These people are nuts. We're on our own, except for following the lead of Gov. Cuomo and Gov. Newsom. Oh, and Dr. Fauci. He's good too and refuses to ride the bullshit express.

[Cetacea]

8. It's part of their "deconstruction" plan

Shrink government or weaken it to the point of it appearing useless.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. GOPers always try to prove central government is bad, by actively breaking it.

[crickets]

20. Yep, every time--the truth is central government is bad *when they are in charge* nt

[lunatica]

30. He wants to privatize government

Our country could go from being a Democracy to being a straight up Capitalist country.

Pretty soon we’ll all be drinking government sponsored Browndo.

[Cetacea]

35. +1

While demonstrating "Compassionate Conservatism".

[lunatica]

37. They'll make a killing on selling the water

they were so smart to privatize! The Free Market rules!!

[Cetacea]

40. +1

I recall that Bush bought up 100k acres of aquifer land in Paraguay when he was in office... Disaster Capitalism.

[saidsimplesimon]

34. Grover Norquist -"Drown government in a bathtub"

Republicans have been stoking resentment toward "big government", using it as a campaign slogan for decades,"clean the swamp". Reduce my taxes, kill SS and Medicare, eliminate food stamp programs, use Federal funds for private religious schools and the beat goes on.

If polls are an accurate reflection of public beliefs, fully one third of American voters are giving a confirmation that, indeed, some of US are dumber than rocks, whatever that means.

[Celerity]

39. Grover Norquist thinks vaping will make the GOP cool

Could vaping regulations create a new bloc of young Republican voters?

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvznwm/this-conservative-thinks-vaping-will-make-the-gop-cool

[saidsimplesimon]

41. rofl at your link and photo

Libertarian Republicans are a hoot, they supported the medical mj laws here in AZ. go figure

[smb]

9. Using The DPA Might Interfere With The Cheeto Crime Cabal's Schemes To Profit From The Crisis nt

[littlemissmartypants]

11. It's beyond failure. It's abuse. nt

[dchill]

17. It's voluntary manslaughter.

[littlemissmartypants]

46. Are you a lawyer? If so I'd love to know

The difference between voluntary and other types of manslaughter. He's certainly guilty of nefarious acts.

He's a psychopath. We should expect pain, abuse and suffering. It's what they do.

He's really in his element because what could cause more pain and suffering than a deadly pandemic?

He barely has to lift a finger to exercise his psychopathic tendencies.

He literally has to just do nothing and he's all set, mission accomplished.

[dchill]

49. No, I'm not a lawyer. But I know what I see.

He has caused many deaths through his actions and inactions. Those who would otherwise have lived. It's definitely not involuntary. He has consciously taken these actions. That's voluntary, and attorneys do not own the language.

[littlemissmartypants]

50. I think it might make a difference if you were going to press charges.

There has to be some applicable legalese. I was just wondering if you knew what it is. Maybe one of our many DU attorneys will see our posts and put my curiosity to bed. Thanks for the reply, dchill. Good luck to you! ❤ nt

[usaf-vet]

12. He is setting up who is going to get blamed when this goes to s**T. The Governors! DEMS first!

So typical Trump. If things go well he will take ALL the credit. If things go south he will blame the Governors. Starting with the Democratic-run states.

While in the background helping republican-run states. Look at Florida they got all the emergency materials they requested.

Reportedly other states are not getting responses to their requests.

[EndlessWire]

47. I agree. n/t

[StarryNite]

13. Population control?

Trying to wipe out a lot of us who are on Social Security and Medicare perhaps?

[vapor2]

15. Perhaps trying to wipe out Dems

in NY and CA. This thug is Satan

[bdamomma]

18. I wouldn't doubt

he is seeking revenge. It will get to the point that those who have nothing to loose will seek vengeance on those who have. Society will not take this.

[Cetacea]

29. Washinton, and the two counties in Florida that carried Obama.

Plus it could wipe out a large number of those pesky people on Social Security.

[vapor2]

14. HE NEEDS TO FUCKING RESIGN

Does he care if we all die?

[secondwind]

16. Am surprised he didn't call her a NASTY WOMAN

[CTyankee]

26. me, too.

[crickets]

19. Yes, it's a complete failure of leadership.

It's also a deliberate complete failure of leadership.

[Fiendish Thingy]

21. An impeachable offence , IMO

Pelosi should hold a quick vote and dare Mitch to acquit again.

[EndlessWire]

48. I very much want her to

impeach the bastard again. He wants even more power over us. He has to go! So what if we have to hold it during Covid-19? It's not like he's doing anything to help us.

Whoever heard of a scenario where people have to sew their own masks?? It's ridiculous. If he had wanted to help, he would have seen to it that we have at the very least, masks to wear. Something to interrupt the chain of transmission.

Instead, we have a pRes and his rotten family attempting to use the virus against us and for his reelection campaign. Eff him.

Nancy, impeach the brainless fool!

[djacq]

22. Article 92 UCMJ Maximum Punishment

Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice is "Failure to Obey an Order or Regulation" (Written or stated). It is considered a dereliction of duty when unable or unwilling to perform the job assigned to military personnel.

For a willful dereliction of duty, the maximum punishment is a bad-conduct discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for six months.

When you consider that Trump is suppose to follow the oath of office; "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

He's a Piss Poor Example.

[Grins]

23. "...it all starts with a purchase order."

The line I used to an Army Colonel years ago who wondered why we weren’t doing enough on his project. We had a contract, but the Army had not cut a P.O. against it, and without that - NOTHING HAPPENS!

So. Show me the CDC’s, FEMA’s, etc’s P.O.’s for masks, ventilators, medical gowns, etc, etc..and then I may believe.

Media: Call those companies and ask if they have received those P.O.’s.

(Side note: When the Colonel heard that nothing had happened on that P.O. he went into raging batshit mode! Really something to see! We had that order in hours. And THEN he had leverage over me!)

[benld74]

24. ALL knew that

[uponit7771]

25. This is no surprise and he's not trying to produce millions of test so we can isolate the sick

[smirkymonkey]

27. So wait, let me see if I have this straight.

He is not invoking the Defense Production Act because he still wants companies, and probably himself, to be able to profit from this crisis?

[riversedge]

28. Pelosi asked him to use it for critical supplies. You know he hates Pelosi so will not comply......

I think this may have a lot to do with his reluctance to use the Act.

[jberryhill]

31. Wow. Someone found Ben Carson

I remember him.

[sloopdog50]

32. Kelly

Yeah, he's right...I have never seen anything like it. What a lazy POS.

[Evolve Dammit]

33. Yeah, you got to actually use it and make hard choices that may not please CEO's, numb fuck

[Raven123]

36. Hope Joe addresses this in his next public address on coronavirus

[snort]

38. At this point we should assume that it is intentional.

Some of these oversights are just too damned obvious.

[spanone]

42. He's absolutely not using a major tool at his disposal...

and he lied about it yesterday

[iluvtennis]

43. As people on twitter are saying #Trump Lied, People Died" and he's still lying.

What an a-hole. I so DESPISE him/his thuggish administration.

[Takket]

44. this is a much bigger problem.......

even if today he says "yes everyone go make ventilators", they don't just magically show up the next day. where do they get parts from? how to we train people to assemble them? it will likely take several weeks to start churning out assembled ventilators in the quantities we need and that is optimistic.

in other words.... TOO LATE

We should have been talking about this in JANUARY

[IcyPeas]

45. governor cuomo...

has requested and has received lots of help. for example Christian Siriano (a designer who won Project Runway) is using his workshop to make masks.

Someone else said they had a 3-D printer and would be happy to help make whatever was needed.

A metal worker offered to make metal items, bed frames, respirator brackets. etc.

People are really stepping up.

(this was from yesterday so I can't find the link now)