Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is hiding something, somewhere.
In a video interview with the Washington Post, Hogan said that he had enlisted the National Guard and State Police to protect 500,000 COVID-19 tests he had procured from South Korea from potential seizure by the feds.
Hogan has said that he managed to secure the 500,000 tests thanks to help from his wife, who is originally from South Korea and purportedly called the country’s ambassador to the U.S. for help.
This is like when the Canadian embassy hid Americans from the Iranian revolutionaries and successfully smuggled them out of Iran.
I am glad that Hogan has gone public with this. It shows the great lengths governors must go in order to secure their orders from Jared Kushner and his band of thieves.
They even had the plane fly directly in to BWI to avoid crossing state lines. You know what’s coming next: fighter patrols at US air borders forcing suspected medical cargo planes to land for “inspection”.
This is crazy. A Republican governor calling out the National Guard to protect his constituents from a credible threat fr the federal government, and Michigan legislators feel the need to wear billet proof vests on the floor of the legislative chamber.
This entire episode is a tribute to the insanity, incompetence, and corruption of Trump’s government. This story is right out of a piece of absurdist literature like “Catch 22”.
If you take one step back from this, the entire thing is unbelievable.