Does Trump See An Opportunity To Make Money Selling Ventilators To.....

[global1]

other countries.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. If he could, he would.

I fully expect there to be some kind of grifting.

[live love laugh]

2. Totally. nt

[milestogo]

3. He wants the French to pay him for US military intelligence regarding terrorism in the Sahel.

So yeah, if he can make a buck on something he will do it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. His hesitation was how can he and son in law profit, while people die.

But those same people worship him so I dont know what to say.

He is killing us, and will continue to and nothing can be done unless GOP does it.

[stillcool]

5. doesn't mesh with this...

Trump privately appeals to Asia and Europe for medical help to fight coronavirus
Despite president’s rhetoric that the US would not rely on foreign nations for help, the administration has approached European and Asian partners
Julian Borger in Washington
Tue 24 Mar 2020 20.51 EDT
Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 13.49 EDT

On Tuesday, Trump spoke by phone with the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, asking if his country could supply medical equipment.
The official White House account made no mention of the request, but according to the South Korean presidency, the Blue House, the call was made at Trump’s “urgent request”.
Trump praised the South Korean testing programme, which has helped contain the outbreak there. Moon told Trump that he would support South Korean exports of critical supplies to the US “if there is a domestic surplus”.


Foreign Policy reported that the third-ranking diplomat in the state department, David Hale, had asked for a list of countries that might be able to sell “critical medical supplies and equipment” to the US.
“Depending on critical needs, the United States could seek to purchase many of these items in the hundreds of millions with purchases of higher end equipment such as ventilators in the hundreds of thousands,” an email sent to embassies in Europe and Eurasia said.
The email underlined that the request applied to host countries “minus Moscow

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/trump-privately-appeals-to-asia-and-europe-for-medical-help-to-fight-coronavirus

seems like he's just incompetent.

[Roland99]

6. Bingo!!

He’s losing all his cash flow. What better way to pay back his handlers than with free ventilators

Link to tweet

REPORTER: Last night you told Hannity you didn't think so many ventilators are needed. Now you're taking out the DPA to make General Motors make them.

TRUMP: "We have countries all over the world that are friends of ours, and we'll help those countries."
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PapaPear (@🏠
@Scr0dman
IOW, Russia

This is his payback to his debtors since he has no cash flow at his properties now

[C_U_L8R]

7. He pumping and trumping the market right here at home.

Setting up false competition between states and federal govt.
Who profits??? It's not us. That's for sure.

[moondust]

8. Businessman as President.

What did anybody expect? The businessman looks for opportunities to capitalize on something and when he finds one he capitalizes on it. Duh.

To be fair, a corporate boss at least has some supervision by a board and investors so hasn't necessarily spent his whole life as a private autocrat. Doofus Don, on the other hand, has never been anything but a private autocrat looking out for #1. And it shows. No question he's looking at all the angles of the current "big opportunity" trying to find ways to capitalize on it personally.