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pepperbear

(5,648 posts)
Mon May 11, 2020, 08:50 PM May 2020

PA factory to trump: "You have cooties. Please don't visit."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-visit-to-pennsylvania-factory-that-produces-ppe-materials-was-scuttled-after-plant-officials-expressed-concerns-about-health-risks/2020/05/11/10aa97ec-917a-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html


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President Trump was pushing to get out in the public eye in recent weeks and tout his leadership during the pandemic, and White House staff thought they had hit on the ideal event: a presidential visit to thank the Pennsylvania factory workers who had recently taken herculean steps to ramp up U.S. supplies of protective equipment.

Workers had received national attention after dozens of them lived for 28 days inside their factory so they could ensure they were virus-free and their production was not contaminated or disrupted by illness.

White House officials pressed to hold an event at the Braskem factory, initially scheduled for last Friday. But after extensive back and forth, factory officials ultimately asked to postpone, worried that a visit from Trump could jeopardize both the safety of the workers and the plant’s ability to produce special material for masks and other medical gear, according to two people familiar with the decision and documents reviewed by The Post.


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PA factory to trump: "You have cooties. Please don't visit." (Original Post) pepperbear May 2020 OP
K&R for your subject line. nt tblue37 May 2020 #1
Isn't it a sad commentary? pepperbear May 2020 #2
No mere cooties. He's compromised and dangerously unsafe. C_U_L8R May 2020 #3
Could be that Donnie is a vector...you know like a blood sucking tick on a rat. Thomas Hurt May 2020 #4
.. pepperbear May 2020 #8
Damn! Someone finally stood up to him? SMC22307 May 2020 #5
WOW my thoughts as well bluestarone May 2020 #6
Wish Biden could somehow get in on the action, considering he's a native Pennsylvanian. SMC22307 May 2020 #7
Good For Them On Keeping Trump Away - Besides PA is Biden Country Indykatie May 2020 #9

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
7. Wish Biden could somehow get in on the action, considering he's a native Pennsylvanian.
Mon May 11, 2020, 09:21 PM
May 2020

That would really stick in Fat Nixon's craw.

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