If you’re anything like me you’ve been wondering why on earth our sorry excuse for a president has taken his sweet time in pushing out an even halfway decent response to the deadly, novel virus that’s currently wreaking havoc across the nation and around the world.
Don’t get me wrong, I know that the man is garbage in human form. However, you’d think that even Donald Trump would realize that something is going to have to be done, something drastic and soon, or we’re all going to be “up shit creek without a paddle” as my grandmother would say — right along with the stock market and what’s left of Trump’s chance at reelection come November.
I know the man is as selfish as they come, but I would have thought that he’d be rolling out some drastic measure by now if for no other reason than to try to save his own skin.
It just hasn’t made much sense to me. That is, until new reports started coming out indicating that Donald may be holding off on widespread COVID-19 testing across the United States, not just to keep the nation’s numbers low, but to find a way for him and his family to profit off of their production and distribution.
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It’s already been reported that Trump himself may own stock in a company that could play a major role in providing the virus testing kits. And now a new bombshell report from Mother Jones reporter David Corn speculates that Donald may not be the only member of the Trump clan that serves to gain from this pandemic — his son-in-law Jared Kushner may play a bigger part than what we even realized.
Before I move on, it’s important to note that this is speculation — an educated hypothesis based upon reporting and our own analysis.
Corn’s report reads:
“Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top player in the White House’s coronavirus deliberations, several years ago controlled a family business that owned a health insurance company that is now marketing a website that aims to direct consumers to coronavirus testing locations. This firm, which is called Oscar, has often been described in media accounts as co-founded by Jared’s brother, Joshua, but New York State records reviewed by Mother Jones show that in 2013, the year the business was incorporated, Jared with his brother controlled the holding company that owned Oscar.”
The report does state that Kushner divested from the company in 2017, but it’s worth noting here that it’s easy enough to “divest” on paper only. Unofficial agreements have always and will always be a thing.
The report continues:
“That same day, Oscar, which bills itself as ‘a tech-driven health insurance company,’ launched a website that it called ‘the first testing center locator for COVID-19 in the U.S.’ It noted that this locator featured ‘more than 100 centers today.’ And the company said the site was ‘accessible to the general public and more testing centers are being added every day.’ As the Verge reported, the flow chart Kushner had developed was ‘eerily similar’ to Oscar’s new website, and it noted that Oscar was ‘Kushner-linked’ because ‘Joshua Kushner (brother to Jared) is a major investor in Oscar Health.'”
To make matters worse, Mother Jones gave the White House and Kushner every opportunity to clear the air and their answers were… Well… Less than satisfactory.
“Mother Jones sent a list of questions to the White House about Jared Kushner and Oscar. They included: Did anyone at Oscar have any input into the flow chart released by the White House at the press conference last week? Who did design the flow chart? How involved was Kushner with Oscar before he divested? Did Kushner solicit or receive any advice or input from his brother Joshua regarding how the Trump administration should respond to the coronavirus crisis?”
What did the White House say? “Oscar had no involvement in this.”
Interesting.
Again, there’s simply no way to confirm this whole thing as I highly doubt anyone in the Trump crew is about to have a sudden change of heart and admit that they’re greedy pieces of shit that are trying to con the American people and line their pockets with pandemic money.
I’m just saying that, like many things to come out of the Trump administration, it’s fishy.
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