Earlier quoted context omitted.
America elected a reality TV personality to be President.
Except the President doesn't run New York state, the governor does.
The article states the White House recommended the vendor to New York.
After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
America elected a reality TV personality to be President.
What do you want? President doing the background check of the company from which NY is buying few thousand ventilators from?
"The guy was recommended to us by the White House coronavirus task force"
If the Task Force recommended someone, yes you expect that they aren't recommending scammers.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except the President doesn't run New York state, the governor does.
It's worth reading the article. The subtitle adds a bit of necessary context: > The Silicon Valley engineer, who had no background in medical supplies but was recommended by the White House, never delivered the ventilators. The article has a direct quote: > “The guy was recommended to us by the White House coronavirus task force because they were doing business with him as well,” said the New York state official. I d…
Really, the state government that thinks these people are criminals and frauds? Remember NYC has known trump and his ilk for a long time.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except the President doesn't run New York state, the governor does.
It's worth reading the article. The subtitle adds a bit of necessary context: > The Silicon Valley engineer, who had no background in medical supplies but was recommended by the White House, never delivered the ventilators. The article has a direct quote: > “The guy was recommended to us by the White House coronavirus task force because they were doing business with him as well,” said the New York state official. I d…
What business was the WH doing with this scammer? Stealing from NY?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except the President doesn't run New York state, the governor does.
The article states the White House recommended the vendor to New York.
I get that as chief executive, the president is ultimately responsible for everything, but is this literally where we're dumping the blame?
The President failed to make sure the task force member who recommended the vendor had done his diligence and the state government was just 100% blindly trusting of the very same White House they claim to hate at every step of the way, therefore it's Trump's fault?
What ever happened to trust but verify?
I just don't understand why type of micro-manager would be needed for this to not be his fault then. It wouldn't be a human at that point, you'd need some sort of AI that manages the smallest of minutia of every aspect of government.
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#17It sounds like NY didn't do their job.
NY pays millions of dollars to these companies and none of them deliver any ventilators because NY didn't do any due diligence.
This one guy gets called out because a NY state official claims he came at the "direct recommendation of the White House." This makes no sense, but Buzzfeed rolls with it, and it's likely CYA for the state official to pass the blame onto the federal government.
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#18If I got $69 million I could figure out a way to get the same amount of ventilators and still have some profit left over, guaranteed. Let’s talk.
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#19Lets use this as an opportunity to count how many countries actually managed to deliver on making brand new emergency ventilators during the emergency?
I counted only three: Turkey — Baykar Biyovent, Pakistan — Kamra PakVent 1, India — Marutu Suzuki emergency ventilator. That's very few.
Even if NYC government didn't dish those money to him, it would still be unrealistic to expect anybody being able to deliver on that in any capacity, other than existing manufacturers.
How they didn't know that?
Similarly, the story with PCR tests. Those were available at least a month prior to emergency in NYC, yet USG spent sweet time dishing out random grants and contracts, despite the solution already being on the table.
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#20Lets use this as an opportunity to count how many countries actually managed to deliver on making brand new emergency ventilators during the emergency? I counted only three: Turkey — Baykar Biyovent, Pakistan — Kamra PakVent 1, India — Marutu Suzuki emergency ventilator. That's very few. Even if NYC government didn't dish those money to him, it would still be unrealistic to expect anybody being able to deliver on tha…
Didn't Tesla deliver new emergency ventilators?