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After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators

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Re: After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators

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1. This administration has outright lied about a number of things, including denying to the press things we know actually did happen. 2. "The White House Coronavirus Task Force was never informed of this contract" does not actually deny having recommended the vendor to NY. It's a pretty careful wording that doesn't actually contradict the article at all.

> 2. "The White House Coronavirus Task Force was never informed of this contract" does not actually deny having recommended the vendor to NY. By truncating the rest of the quoted text you’re further proving my point of the fake news circle jerk. The full quote from the article that you selectively truncated is (emphasis mine): >> "The White House Coronavirus Task Force was never informed of this contract and was not…

The rest of the wording is just as careful, and logically follows from the first part (you can hardly be involved in a contract if you don’t know about it).

“We recommended the vendor and put them in touch with NY, then washed our hands of it” fits just fine with the wording there.

Re: After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators

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Really, the state government that thinks these people are criminals and frauds? Remember NYC has known trump and his ilk for a long time.

Why are you letting the federal government off the hook and blaming the victim?

Holding people responsible for their decisions isn't blaming the victim. This is their job. They failed at it. NY keeps making bad decisions and then blaming the federal government -- they take credit but push off blame/responsibility. I'm not happy with how my government is handling this.

Re: After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators

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With New York's view on the white house and their capabilities - not doing due diligence is on them.

And with the position of authority the federal government is in, giving poor recommendations is on them. Responsibility goes both ways.

Sure - we know the whitehouse is incompetent - we've known that since day one.

Re: After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators

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"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.

If you check the article, there is now an update where a spokesman for the white house denies there was ever any contact or recommendation from the coronavirus task force.

I guess New York reads Trump's twitter replies looking for medical supply vendors then.

Re: After One Tweet, This Man Got $69M from New York for Ventilators

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"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.

If you check the article, there is now an update where a spokesman for the white house denies there was ever any contact or recommendation from the coronavirus task force.

No, that's not what the White House statement says.

> After this article was published, a spokesperson for Pence, Katie Miller, said in a statement that "The White House Coronavirus Task Force was never informed of this contract and was not involved in it at all."

Contract, not contact. They deny knowing about or being part of the contract. Nowhere do they deny recommending the vendor.

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