Jared Kushner made a deal with Russia for ventilators during the COVID-19 crisis, but every single m

[UpInArms]

Source: Business Insider

Jared Kushner brokered a deal with Russia for 45 ventilators to be brought to the US to help with the coronavirus crisis, but they all turned out to be faulty, a new report says.

Two senior Trump administration officials told The Daily Beast that Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, helped to secure an equipment order that included the ventilators.

They were unloaded from a Russian-marked plane in New York in March, as the COVID-19 outbreak was intensifying in the state.

The report said the order was carried out by the State Department but was sped along thanks to Kushner's relationship with Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund of the Russian government.

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ABC also reported that the shipment contained thousands of medical supplies that are not commonly used by hospitals, like household cleaning gloves, and that Russia billed the US almost $660,000 for them.

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Russia's ambassador to the US called the shipment a "humanitarian mission." Trump welcomed the equipment, saying at a press briefing on April 2 that Russian President Vladimir Putin had offered him equipment in a phone call.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-sourced-covid-ventilators-from-russia-that-didnt-work-report-2020-8

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Jared Kushner made a deal with Russia for ventilators during the COVID-19 crisis, but every single machine was faulty, report says

[progressive nobody]

1. Kicking it! Hopefully CNN & MSNBC covers this!

[underpants]

2. He also ordered 1,000,000 tests from the UAE but didn't require refrigeration

Which ruined the tests.

We never actually paid for those tests due to the professionalism of federal procurement officials.

[Lasher]

24. The secret (why was it secret?) Kushner task force was dissolved so that Democrats could just die.

His incredible incompetence is highlighted every time Trump tries to pad his resume. I'm sure you are well versed in this particular episode but I offer this for the lookers on:

How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"

[underpants]

26. That's the article. Incredible reporting.

That’s where I got it from.

[unblock]

3. So Donnie handed putin $660k if our tax dollars in exchange for junk?

Sounds about right.

[paleotn]

7. Jared didn't care if they were junk or not....

What Jared wanted was the ...uh..."commission" for "brokering" the deal. Highly illegal.

[stillcool]

9. that's how I wash my money

[LisaL]

19. Well, the ventilators were Russian and thus

run on a different voltage. They were never going to work out of the box. Which I guess never occurred to Jared?

[soothsayer]

4. Faulty in that they burst into flames

And were headed for NYC

[paleotn]

5. Well...since the days of the Cold War...

quality is most certainly not Job 1 in Russian factories. But that was of no consequence. It was the Russian kickbacks Jared was after. Follow the money. Our money, that is. That's more of OUR money lining the pocket of Princes Sparkle Pony's sidekick.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. profit deal for jared and traitor

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=steve+martin+the+jerk+carnival+profit+game&docid=608011509175945376&mid=51CE9C85B2D6A489101651CE9C85B2D6A4891016&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

[yuiyoshida]

8. Ya think we will get a Nuremberg style trial after this is ALL over?

Maybe it should be broadcast all over the world so people can see that under all that bullshit there are still citizens willing to stand up to the Government and bring down a would be dictator, and all of his henchmen/women. From the Senate to inside his administration. They have to go down and there has to be a way to make things right again. RISE UP AMERICA.


K&R , tweeted.

[UpInArms]

10. This 👆🏼

Well said

[hkp11]

12. Yes to this!

After working on the pandemic & economy - let Joe/Kamala show what they can do to get the US back on it's feet.

[First Speaker]

23. Yes. It will never happen, of course...

...and thus, the whole mess will happen again. And again. We never bring the criminals to account. But wouldn't it be nice to have some real justice, just once?

[NJCher]

28. wow

sounds like you don't have much faith in Joe and Kamala.

[Atreus]

31. An Example....

The Biden/Harris administration and the new Congress MUST make an example of Trump and his republican enablers! So much so, that NO ONE will so much as even think about attempting what these pieces of garbage have. This is the United States of America, dammit!

[yuiyoshida]

34. This!

and welcome to DU!! DUへようこそ。共有していただきありがとうございます。DU e yōkoso. Kyōyū shite itadaki arigatōgozaimasu! and thank you for sharing.

[Atreus]

35. i

thank you

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Engineering? German. Japanese. American. To a lesser extent

Chinese and other countries with a history of strong math and technology.

Russian?

How dumb is this Jared guy?

[LisaL]

15. I have no clue what you are trying to say?

You are unaware of Russian history in math and technology?

[bucolic_frolic]

17. So sorry

I won't explain.

[ananda]

13. When is enough enough?

I keep wondering ...

[Scruffy1]

14. Russia runs on 220v 50 HZ.

That is probably why they wouldn't work here. Seriously they got sold a bunch of soap.A friend of mine who works for a major medical equipment company told me that the maintenance contracts on the national stockpile respirators was cancelled last fall without warning. Sounds to me that somebody might have used the money for something else

[LisaL]

16. Yep, there is a different voltage between US and Russia.

So these ventilators were never going to work straight out of the box.

[stevil]

27. Yup

I use equipment for a hobby that can often arrive running 220. If there was anyone competent involved on the "Task Force"" that would have been brought up at a meeting. They should have known.

[Eugene]

37. Dual voltage support is common for internationally shipped electronics.

The real problem was that Putin operates as corruptly Trump, though he's more competent at it. The stuff Russia sent to Italy (220v/50hz) was also junk.

Unless the goods are intended for a specialized mass market (e.g. an entry-level television), the typical spec will read something like "INPUT: 100-240V~50-60hz ___ A OUTPUT: __ V __ A"

For example an Ohio-made ventilator uses a dual-voltage AC adapter that resembles a laptop PC power pack (except that it's bigger, more robust and much more expensive).

[NCjack]

18. of course, Trump stiffed the Russians on the bill, right?

[turbinetree]

20. So instead of going to american firms and giving them tax dollars for these machines.............

he goes and ask the Russians, the same country that has bounties on Americans.......................

Lock his ass up..............

[LudwigPastorius]

21. Sounds like TrumpCo used the pandemic to launder an extortion payment to Putin...

at the taxpayer's (and Covid patient's) expense.

Indict, prosecute, try, & sentence these scumbags.

[NJCher]

29. bingo

that's totally his style.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Wonder how the time frame goes. Jared / Donald sent California some broken ventilators.

Wonder how the time frame goes. Jared / Donald sent California some broken ventilators.

[Eyeball_Kid]

25. Jared Kushner. Secretary of State for Dumbfuckistan! n/t

[Rebl2]

30. Thought

I read about the ventilators being faulty months ago. Never heard about the medical supplies though.

[Warpy]

32. Jared is such a lamebrain he didn't check the voltage difference

Of course Russian machines won't work here. Their power is 220v 50 Hz. Ours is 120v, 60 Hz.

I can only remember 220 power outlets in one hospital I worked in, a brand new building in a teaching hospital in Boston.

The ventilators were most likely perfectly fine--just not here.

[volstork]

33. I can't wait to see this dude in prison.

Thinking he won't fare too well....

[Firestorm49]

36. The equipment isn't the issue as much as where the money went.

[nykym]

38. Let's not forget this gem

Illustrated with a trove of internal documents and emails detailing the government’s hurried negotiations to obtain ventilators during the early spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee say the Trump administration may have overpaid Philips by as much as $500 million for tens of thousands of the critically needed devices.

Their report says the Department of Health and Human Services also neglected to enforce a contract with the medtech manufacturer that was already on the books—a 2014 purchase order from the Obama administration for Philips to develop and provide 10,000 ventilators for the national emergency stockpile by 2019, at a price of $3,280 per unit.

But this past March, the White House pushed those deadlines out to September 2022, following multiple delays and extensions over the years since it was signed. Instead, they inked a new deal: to acquire 42,900 Trilogy EV300 ventilators, at $15,000 apiece, delivered by the end of 2020.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/house-democrats-say-trump-administration-overpaid-for-philips-ventilators-by-500m

[dalton99a]

39. In other words, every single machine was guaranteed to kill an American.

[LisaL]

41. The ventilators were not design to work on 110V.

They were never going to turn on.

[Initech]

40. And yet somehow, it all comes back to Russia.

[Pacifist Patriot]

42. Money laundering in plain sight.

And about umpteen dozen other crimes in the process.