| Trump is
playing a disgusting political game with our lives
By The Denver
Post Editorial Board
April 10, 2020
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- President Donald Trump is treating
life-saving medical equipment as emoluments he can dole
out as favors to loyalists. It’s the worst imaginable
form of corruption — playing political games with lives.
For the good of this nation during what should be a time
of unity, he must stop.
In just the
latest example of his gross display, the president
tweeted on Wednesday:
Trump had only days before prevented Colorado Gov.
Jared Polis from securing 500 ventilators from a private
company, instead, taking the ventilators for the federal
government. Polis sent a formal letter pleading for
medical equipment, but the president took the time to
make clear he was responding to a request from Gardner.
We are left to believe that if Colorado didn’t have a
Republican senator in office, our state would not be
getting these 100 ventilators. How many ventilators
would we be getting if we had a Republican governor and
a second Republican senator? Would that indicate we had
more Republican lives in our state worth saving for
Trump and resources would start flowing? Should Utah be
concerned that Sen. Mitt Romney voted to remove the
president from office?
This behavior comes, of course, weeks after Trump
informed states they would have to compete against one
another in the procurement of medical supplies at a time
of global shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The federal government should be procuring medicine,
masks, and ventilators and distributing them to states
on a set formula based on population, rate of infection
and need. Instead, Trump’s messaging makes it feel as
though he will watch with glee from the White House as
people suffer in states being led by his enemies. If
that’s not the case, then the president needs to act as
though he’s working on behalf of all of us, not just
those who voted for him or cow-towed to his corrupt
administration.
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On March 27, Trump informed Americans that he had
told Vice President Mike Pence, who is running the
coronavirus task force, not to call governors in states
that are not appreciative.
“I say, ‘Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington;
you’re wasting your time with him,” Trump said. “Don’t
call the woman in Michigan. It doesn’t make any
difference what happens.’ You know what I say: ‘If they
don’t treat you right, I don’t call.’ He’s a different
type of person; he’ll call quietly anyway.”
Trump should not target Democratic governors like
Polis, Jay Inslee of Washington and Gretchen Whitmer of
Michigan during this difficult time. Regardless of the
personal feuds that may exist between the president and
these elected officials, their constituents, the ones
who would benefit from resources, are blameless.
It’s far too early to reflect on the performance of
Trump’s administration during this crisis, but on this
one urgent point — the immediate allocation resources to
states — we felt it essential to speak up immediately.
We find it hard to believe decisions are being made on
such a morally bankrupt basis, but Trump is doing this
nation no favors by giving us the impression that
politics will drive his administration’s response to a
virus that has already killed thousands of Americans and
will kill thousands more.
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