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turbinetree

(24,635 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:32 AM Mar 2020

Trump has a selfish reason for holding back coronavirus testing kits: ex-prosecutor

Published 1 min ago on March 6, 2020
By Tom Boggioni

Responding to a report from a Kaiser nurse in Northern California who went public with her inability to get tested for the coronavirus before going back to work with patients, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance accused President Donald Trump of having his administration slow-walk the release of testing kits in an effort to tamp down reports of infected Americans.

“As a nurse, I’m very concerned that not enough is being done to stop the spread of the coronavirus,” the unidentified nurse said the statement released by the California Nurses Association labor union. “I know because I am currently sick and in quarantine after caring for a patient who tested positive. I’m awaiting ‘permission’ from the federal government to allow for my testing, even after my physician and county health professional ordered it.”

According to Vance, the slow release of test kits strikes her as suspicious and suggested that the president and members of his administration don’t want people tested because they fear the tests will reveal that the epidemic is worse than the White House is letting on.

As Vance wrote, “Why not test for Coronavirus? The only explanation we’ve seen so far is because Trump wants to keep the numbers down. He thinks this helps his chances of re-election. In other words, he cares less about your health than his future. Mass testing is logical, sensible & doable.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-has-a-selfish-reason-for-holding-back-coronavirus-testing-kits-ex-prosecutor/

It will also show that he is an absolute failure in everything he does and touches...........he is nothing more than a CON..........and it is all about himself..............a fucking psychopath ..............

November 3, and Jan 20, cannot get here fast enough...........................

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turbinetree

(24,635 posts)
8. Did you see this..................what struck me was what his adviser's said.........
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:43 AM
Mar 2020

Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski drops a bomb on Trump over his political future if he keeps lying about the coronavirus crisis

Published 2 hours ago on March 6, 2020
By Tom Boggioni


-snip-

“You look at all of his statements and almost as if Donald Trump is actively working to tank the stock market — it keeps collapsing for a reason,” he added.

“So, his advisors, people say it’s not right for him to lie about this or to mischaracterize it,” co-host Brzezinski inserted. “The rubber will meet the road for this president politically. This is where his lies don’t work for people at all and that will be uniform across America, including his people.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/morning-joes-mika-brzezinski-drops-a-bomb-on-trump-over-his-political-future-if-he-keeps-lying-about-the-coronavirus-crisis/

My question is if these advisers know that he doing this crap, do they not have any principles and walk out, they are basically helping and enabling this criminal show ................................

Its like he only hires sociopaths and psychopaths.........................they know it wrong ...................

uponit7771

(90,226 posts)
9. +1, "do they not have ant principles and walk out" They all remind me of Kelly and Bolton; people..
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:48 AM
Mar 2020

... inherently low character but look tolerable from the outside.

Wounded Bear

(58,443 posts)
4. Coronavirus 22...
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:40 AM
Mar 2020

The more they delay, the more cases are out there just on the natural spread of the virus.

The more "hidden" cases they are, the more reluctant they are to release the tests and the data.

Trump is cornered, and he knows it. He can't gaslight his way out of it, and his lawyers can't sue his way out of it.

And the people get to suffer for it.

underpants

(182,290 posts)
6. Seems like a reasonable explanation
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:42 AM
Mar 2020

The trouble is that there ARE going to be tests done and the numbers could explode.

My wife’s educated estimation is that worldwide the number will be 500,000 by at least this time next week and a million by lets say St. Patricks Day.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
10. We don't need testing kits and vaccines.
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:50 AM
Mar 2020

Mike Pence is praying it away.

(I'm picturing Pat Robertson squinting his eyes, looking constipated, as he's pretending to talk to God.)

ScratchCat

(1,957 posts)
12. Trump must be the most stupid politician ever
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 11:56 AM
Mar 2020

if this is his plan. I can't be the only one who clearly realizes this, including everyone around him. Why would the stock market's performance in effing March have an affect upon the election in effing November? If we did our best to contain the virus and lessen its effects, then the economy would be fine come September/October and Trump would have something to run on("I saved the world from the coronavirus!!&quot . This.Just.Doesn't.Make.Sense. Surely Ivanka can explain this to him, right?

get the red out

(13,459 posts)
13. I certainly believe this
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 12:01 PM
Mar 2020

He is bragging so much right now about the "low" number of cases in the US and how HE has stopped its spread here that it has to be the reason.

Skittles

(152,969 posts)
14. the Senate had the chance to remove this danger to America
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 07:01 AM
Mar 2020

THEY FUCKING FAILED - heck, they COLLUDED WITH HIM

Vinca

(50,173 posts)
15. Just wait. If this thing hits that GOP enclave for seniors in Florida - the Villages - there
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 08:09 AM
Mar 2020

will be a price to pay for Trump. You can't happy talk this particular event. People require the truth.

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