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ProPublica is about the ONLY media source exposing the true evil and duplicity of the Trump Crime Family.
What will the Trump Regime do about this?
So far, this is what the Trump Regime had been doing…
And with the help of the 5-4 Kangaroo Kourt decision, Trump Regime is making Americans risk their lives to exercise their civil duty to vote!
And what about the other vulturistic/pandemic profiteers…?
https://www.newyorker.com./business/currency/how-private-equity-firms-squeeze-hospital-patients-for-profits
I’m really going to enjoy AG Harris’ investigations next year into all the wheeling and dealing and price gouging happening this year.
Only a cynic or a realist would believe this.
Hick hopes…
I’m sure she does.
We need a “Truman Commission” to investigate all the profiteering and corruption going on.
The only reason Trump anointed his idiot son-in-law Kushner for the job was to coordinate the kickbacks and pay-to-play deals. With Kushner being a “Presidential Advisor” that means any investigations will be stonewalled by “Presidential Privilege” assertions (like he would ever be charged with anything by his personal butt-monkey AG Bill Barr anyway.)
I know several professionals who used to work for Philips. I am not surprised by this. They will continue to take advantage of the pandemic to gouge for maximum profit. You are seeing their true corporate culture now.
I inadvertently heard part of one of the coronavirus briefings (a/k/a "campaign rallies) in which Trump was praising Philips to the sky. Because Trump never cut a bad deal, unless it involved real estate, casinos, golf courses, vodka, an airline, a board game, or steaks.
I guess we can add ventilators to that list.
For those who can’t be bothered to RTFA, the company has until 2022 to fulfill the order for 10000 “cheap” ventilators. Hard to imagine why they might preferentially fill the expensive ventilator orders first.
“This kind of profiteering — paying four times the negotiated price — is not only irresponsible to taxpayers but is particularly offensive when so many people are out of work,” said Dr. Nicole Lurie.
Trump: “I’m an amazing negotiator, maybe the best ever in the history of this world!”
For all the comparisons to war, we need WWII level taxes to claw back the profiteering. Also lots of tar and feathers for the shitbirds who squeeze through the cracks.
Odds are pretty good that Trump gets to “wet his beak” in this deal.
Hick hopes that federal officials will learn a lesson from the Philips deal.
Hope Hicks is doing ventilators now?
She’s used to blowing on things.
“and the rest [are to arrive] by the end of December.”
That’s like paying Costco $50 now to deliver a dozen rolls of toilet paper next October.
Many people are saying that Donnie got hyperventilated…
Well of course, the first deal where we paid less than a fourth of the price was done under Obama…MUST BE BAD.
Are you sure you aren’t confusing her with Stephanie Grisham, who has blown into so many breathalyzers she can’t have a drink with a straw in it anymore?
Now a search needs to be done. Who has their hand in the Royal Philips N.V. cookie jar?
