Thread by @Monaheart1229

So Kushner's arm of the Covid response was just as young, inexperienced & chaotic as he is.
This still falls on Trump.
He has full responsibility for not caring enuf @ the outbreak to make sure that this didn't happen. #WednesdayWisdom
nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/…

2-“Federal officials who had spent years devising emergency plans were layered over by Kushner allies, working with and within the White House coronavirus task force, who believed their private-sector experience could solve the country’s looming supply shortage.

3-“The young volunteers-drawn from venture capital and private equity firms-were expected to apply their deal-making experience to quickly weed out good leads from the mountain of bad ones, administration officials said in an interview.

4-"FEMA and other agencies, despite years of emergency preparation, were not equipped for the unprecedented task of a pandemic that impacted all 50 states, they said.

5-"At least one tip the volunteers forwarded turned into an expensive debacle. In late March, according to emails obtained by NYT, two of the volunteers passed along procurement forms submitted by Yaron Oren-Pines, a Silicon Valley engineer

6-"who said he could provide more than 1,000 ventilators. Kushner’s volunteers passed the tip to federal officials who then sent it to senior officials in New York, who assumed Mr. Oren-Pines had been vetted and awarded him an eye-popping $69 million contract.

7-"Not a single ventilator was delivered, and New York is now seeking to recover the money.”
~NYT