Thread by @TrinityResists

A delivery of #COVID19 test kits to WA State was seized & diverted by the federal gov’t.

They were forced to order them overseas due to Trump’s incompetence & still ongoing test shortages.

At today’s #TrumpPressConf he repeated—states are on their own.

bellinghamherald.com/news/coronavir…

The LA times reported about the federal government seizing, diverting & stockpiling medical supplies from overseas last week.

FEMA’s response: “Reports of FEMA commandeering or re-routing such supplies are false.”

#TrumpLiesAboutCoronavirus

latimes.com/politics/story…

Oh. Look at that.

The governor of Illinois has been reduced to chartering flights from China in secret to avoid Trump’s authoritarian government from stealing medical supplies.

#TrumpGenocide
#TrumpLiedAmericansDied

rawstory.com/2020/04/illino…

Today, it’s Massachusetts.

Trump’s authoritarian govt is:
—Placing all burden & blame on states
—Outbidding states on medical equipment
—Seizing state’s overseas orders & claiming it’s not
—Re-distributing mostly to Red states
—Profiting from #COVID19

https://twitter.com/marynmck/status/1251538798292467712?s=21

https://t.co/gF6YNUnulo

A Delaware medical supplier says FEMA seized 400,000 N95 masks marked for distribution across the US, did not pay him when it took possession of 2 imported shipments—He’s out millions of dollars

@fema is still claiming its seizing of supplies are "false”

msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

Miami-Dade County had 1 MILLION N95 masks seized by FEMA.

Miami-Dade’s EM director on the shipment:

‘We were going to meet the plane…but got word from the company they’d been “hijacked” from the federal govt.’

FEMA again claims they’re not stealing PPE
miamiherald.com/news/local/com…

As the list of states/hospitals/distributors prove @fema is seizing PPE from their overseas shipments, FEMA tossed blame to Barr’s @DOJPH “new PPE task force”

Both agency’s excuse for stealing PPE?
Falsely claim they’ve seized PPE from ‘bad actors & businesses acting unlawfully’