He's too used to dealing with hookers and leaving cash on the night table. He not only helped cause the situation and is fucking up the response, now apparently he's trying to profit from human misery and death. You might have to impeach this animal again this summer, at Mitch McConnell's request this time!
Ministers and MPs criticise display of ‘self-interest’ and accuse US president of electioneering
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Coronavirus: anger in Germany at report Trump seeking exclusive vaccine deal
MPs and ministers criticise display of ‘self-interest’ and accuse US president of electioneering
German ministers have reacted angrily following reports US president
Donald Trump offered a German medical company “large sums of money” for exclusive rights to a Covid-19 vaccine.
“Germany is not for sale,” economy minister Peter Altmaier told broadcaster ARD, reacting to a front page report in Welt am Sonntag newspaper headlined “Trump vs Berlin”.
The newspaper reported Trump offered $1bn to Tübingen-based biopharmaceutical company CureVac to secure the vaccine “only for the United States”.
The German government was reportedly offering its own financial incentives for the vaccine to stay in the country.
The report prompted fury in Berlin. “German researchers are taking a leading role in developing medication and vaccines as part of global cooperation networks,” foreign minister Heiko Maas told the Funke Mediengruppe research network. “We cannot allow a situation where others want to exclusively acquire the results of their research,” said Maas, of the centre-left SPD.
“International co-operation is important now, not national self-interest,” said Erwin Rüddel, a conservative lawmaker on the German parliament’s health committee.
Trump 'offers large sums' for exclusive US access to coronavirus vaccine
Christian Lindner, leader of the liberal FDP party, accused Trump of electioneering, saying: “Obviously Trump will use any means available in an election campaign.”
The German health minister, Jens Spahn, said a takeover of CureVac by the Trump administration was “off the table”. CureVac would only develop vaccine “for the whole world”, Spahn said, “not for individual countries”.
Worldwide infections have grown to more than more than 86,000, according to the
Johns Hopkins university tracker, while cases inside China stood at 80,860 as of Monday.
Deaths outside China have risen to more than 3,241, while deaths in mainland China stand at 3,208 as of Monday.
At a news conference on Sunday, interior minister Horst Seehofer was asked to confirm the attempts to court the German company. “I can only say that I have heard several times today from government officials today that this is the case, and we will be discussing it in the crisis committee tomorrow,” he said.
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