Trump Told Governors to Buy Own Virus Supplies, Then Outbid Them

The only reason for doing this is to get a political win, to be able to turn around and say 'Governor X didn't get the supplies you needed, but I made it happen.' This is the same guy complaining that the federal government 'are not supply clerks.'

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I would rather thus forum was discussing how to make sure politicians can’t do something like this.

By the way social guarantees for citizens is one way of doing it; because having more money usually implies having more time to contemplate about the idiocy of their own government and thus being motivated to change it.

And the next day he stated that he was aware this was happening and if it happened for the governors to communicate back to the feds and the feds would withdraw the bid. How does this article help or enrich anything?

Logistics and bidding collisions during a crisis? Who would have guessed it...

Sounds like the governors are better at driving a bargain.