Grandstanding Michigan Gov Suggests Trump Admin Telling Vendors Not to Send the State Medical Supplies
Article by Rick Moran in "PJMedia":
No proof, no specifics, nothing
that would suggest Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is doing anything
except trying to pass the buck.
The
Democrat suggested in a radio interview that the state was being denied
vitally needed supplies because the Trump administration told vendors
not to send Michigan what they need.
Whitmer
did not mention any specific companies. She did not mention any
specific Trump administration official who was blocking the sales.
"When the federal government told us that we needed to go it ourselves, we started procuring every item we could get our hands on," Whitmer said Friday on WWJ 950AM. "What I've gotten back is that vendors with whom we had contracts are now being told not to send stuff here to Michigan."Whitmer didn't say who has told vendors to stop sending medical supplies to the state, but strongly implied the order came from President Donald Trump's administration.
Extraordinary
claims require extraordinary evidence. And the context of her loaded
charges was criticism from Trump directed at her.
Trump called into Sean Hannity's Fox News program Thursday night and bashed Whitmer's handling of the coronavirus public health crisis that has claimed the lives of 9 2 Michigan residents as of Friday."Your governor of Michigan, I mean, she's not stepping up," Trump said, who referred to Whitmer as "a woman governor" and not by her name. "I don't know if she knows what's going on, but all she does is sit there and blame the federal government. She doesn't get it done. And we send her a lot."
So Trump
skewers Whitmer and Whitmer makes a sensational accusation against
Trump. If Whitmer had the name of a company who told her state about
administration interference or the name of someone responsible for it,
it might be a different story. The allegations would certainly bear
investigation.
But
Whitmer and other Democratic governors are trying to "pull a Katrina"
on Trump. During the 2005 hurricane, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin flitted
from TV studio to TV studio making unbelievable claims about babies
being raped in the Superdome and dead bodies all over the place. He
whined, he cried, and he blamed President Bush for not doing anything.
Meanwhile, there were dozens of school buses sitting in a parking lot
that Nagin never used to evacuate the thousands of people who were still
in the city. In fact, he did precious little -- and neither did the
Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco. All they could do is pass the buck
and blame Bush.
I think
Whitmer is hiding her own incompetence behind the politically popular
charge that it's Trump's malevolence that's preventing Michigan health
care workers from getting equipment. I wouldn't put it past our
president to pull something like that, but there's no proof.
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