Government Turned Down Mask Offer

[Oddball]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

It was also back when the narrative was that masks really weren't effective, and if you were accumulating a personal stash of them you were depriving people in the medical profession who really needed them of their use.

We've been jacked around by our overlords from day one with this silly virus, and drippy douche canoes like the OP just add to the chaos and confusion.

 

[yidnar]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Of course, Donald Trump will blame Obama telling his faithful Obama made me do it.

Donald Trump screwed up the Covid19 response leading to the USA having one of the worst performances in the world and the most deaths.

US government turned down opportunity to manufacture millions of N-95 masks at start of pandemic: report

US government turned down opportunity to manufacture millions of N-95 masks at start of pandemic: report
BY J. EDWARD MORENO - 05/09/20 09:22 PM EDT

The Department of Health and Human Services turned down an opportunity to access millions of U.S.-manufactured N-95 masks in January, according to The Washington Post.

The N-95 masks have been in high demand since the pandemic hit the United States and healthcare workers scramble to protect themselves as thousands of patients flood local hospitals.

On January 22, a medical supply company in Fort Worth, Texas, Prestige Ameritech, offered to ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks, noting that the federal government’s stockpile was diminishing.

The government turned down the offer.

“I don’t believe we as a government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded the same day Prestige inquired about its stockpile, according to the Post.

Michael Bowen, who owns the company, told HHS his company was receiving various requests from private entities but would be willing to set masks aside for the government. ...

chicom propaganda ! treason !

 

[Mac-7]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

Nice try, but this lib lie is going nowhere

 

[Mac-7]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Of course, Donald Trump will blame Obama telling his faithful Obama made me do it.

Donald Trump screwed up the Covid19 response leading to the USA having one of the worst performances in the world and the most deaths.

US government turned down opportunity to manufacture millions of N-95 masks at start of pandemic: report

US government turned down opportunity to manufacture millions of N-95 masks at start of pandemic: report
BY J. EDWARD MORENO - 05/09/20 09:22 PM EDT

The Department of Health and Human Services turned down an opportunity to access millions of U.S.-manufactured N-95 masks in January, according to The Washington Post.

The N-95 masks have been in high demand since the pandemic hit the United States and healthcare workers scramble to protect themselves as thousands of patients flood local hospitals.

On January 22, a medical supply company in Fort Worth, Texas, Prestige Ameritech, offered to ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks, noting that the federal government’s stockpile was diminishing.

The government turned down the offer.

“I don’t believe we as a government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded the same day Prestige inquired about its stockpile, according to the Post.

Michael Bowen, who owns the company, told HHS his company was receiving various requests from private entities but would be willing to set masks aside for the government. ...

chicom propaganda ! treason !

Dopey Donald Trump's Covid19 press conferences?

You need another shot of Clorox.

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

Nice try, but this lib lie is going nowhere

It has you aroused. The truth hurts and you are suffering.

 

[playtime]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

 

[Mac-7]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not there when the offer was made

 

[Mac-7]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not on the job when the offer was made

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

Nice try, but this lib lie is going nowhere

It has you aroused. The truth hurts and you are suffering.

You have no truth that hurts me

but your lies could do some damage if we let you get away with them

 

[playtime]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not there when the offer was made

but he should have looked into american companies that manufactured PPE.

that would have been the competent thing to do. he could have & should have followed up with the people who are supposta be 'in the know' & be directed to who what & where they are made legitimately.
.

did he?

Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced Trump allies over legitimate vendors
Ashley Collman
May 6, 2020, 7:06 AM

Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced Trump allies over legitimate vendors

How Jared Kushner’s volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for medical supplies

By Nicholas Confessore, Andrew Jacobs, Jodi Kantor, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Luis Ferré-Sadurní
The New York Times |
May 05, 2020 | 10:54 PM
How Jared Kushner’s volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for medical supplies

Kushner Airlift Moves Millions of Masks, But Details Are Secret

Josh Wingrove, Daniel Flatley and Shira Stein
BloombergMay 1, 2020
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-hails-kushner-ppe-airlift-080000733.html


next?

 

[Mac-7]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not there when the offer was made

but he should have looked into american companies that manufactured PPE.

that would have been the competent thing to do. he could have & should have followed up with the people who are supposta be 'in the know' & be directed to who what & where they are made legitimately.
.

did he?

Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced Trump allies over legitimate vendors
Ashley Collman
May 6, 2020, 7:06 AM
Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced Trump allies over legitimate vendors

How Jared Kushner’s volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for medical supplies

By Nicholas Confessore, Andrew Jacobs, Jodi Kantor, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Luis Ferré-Sadurní
The New York Times |
May 05, 2020 | 10:54 PM
How Jared Kushner’s volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for medical supplies

Kushner Airlift Moves Millions of Masks, But Details Are Secret

Josh Wingrove, Daniel Flatley and Shira Stein
BloombergMay 1, 2020
Kushner Airlift Moves Millions of Masks, But Details Are Secret


next?

You continue to ignore the fact that kushner was not responsible for mask procurement on jan 22 when the offer was made to the government

if denizen were honest instead of greedy he would not have upped the anti by telling a lie about kushner

just the true facts of the story would have been slightly embarrassing to the government

But now you have to defend your lie and that completely blurs the underlying story

later on I’ll give you a non partisan response to this issue

 

[yidnar]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not on the job when the offer was made

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

Nice try, but this lib lie is going nowhere

It has you aroused. The truth hurts and you are suffering.

You have no truth that hurts me

but your lies could do some damage if we let you get away with them

it is obvious dems are committing treason and spreading chicom propaganda .

 

[Mac-7]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not on the job when the offer was made

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

Nice try, but this lib lie is going nowhere

It has you aroused. The truth hurts and you are suffering.

You have no truth that hurts me

but your lies could do some damage if we let you get away with them

it is obvious dems are committing treason and spreading chicom propaganda .

They are desperate for something to attack trump with

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not there when the offer was made

Was he holed up somewhere manufacturing excuses with a team of professional liars?

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not on the job when the offer was made

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

Nice try, but this lib lie is going nowhere

It has you aroused. The truth hurts and you are suffering.

You have no truth that hurts me

but your lies could do some damage if we let you get away with them

You are impervious to the truth?

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not there when the offer was made

but he should have looked into american companies that manufactured PPE.

that would have been the competent thing to do. he could have & should have followed up with the people who are supposta be 'in the know' & be directed to who what & where they are made legitimately.
.

did he?

Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced Trump allies over legitimate vendors
Ashley Collman
May 6, 2020, 7:06 AM
Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced Trump allies over legitimate vendors

How Jared Kushner’s volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for medical supplies

By Nicholas Confessore, Andrew Jacobs, Jodi Kantor, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Luis Ferré-Sadurní
The New York Times |
May 05, 2020 | 10:54 PM
How Jared Kushner’s volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for medical supplies

Kushner Airlift Moves Millions of Masks, But Details Are Secret

Josh Wingrove, Daniel Flatley and Shira Stein
BloombergMay 1, 2020
Kushner Airlift Moves Millions of Masks, But Details Are Secret


next?

You continue to ignore the fact that kushner was not responsible for mask procurement on jan 22 when the offer was made to the government

if denizen were honest instead of greedy he would not have upped the anti by telling a lie about kushner

just the true facts of the story would have been slightly embarrassing to the government

But now you have to defend your lie and that completely blurs the underlying story

later on I’ll give you a non partisan response to this issue

After your psychiatric treatment to cure MAGAnut disease?

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not on the job when the offer was made

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

Nice try, but this lib lie is going nowhere

It has you aroused. The truth hurts and you are suffering.

You have no truth that hurts me

but your lies could do some damage if we let you get away with them

it is obvious dems are committing treason and spreading chicom propaganda .

MAGAnuts feast on steaming orange dogma.

 

[Denizen]

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

sooooooooooooooo? what is it that you are trying to spin?

there is the first person witness ( the company's owner) & hard copy *proof* ie emails from dr. bright that substantiate it. bringing in donny's son in law, panty waisted jared - who ( much like ME affairs ) has ZERO experience in any of this -no matter what the timing was - is just more incompetancy rearing its ugly head.

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.

Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner is not part of this story

jared could have & should have followed up on the offer. he didn't.

did he?

kushner was not on the job when the offer was made

More evidence of the incompetence of Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner emerges. Not only did they turn down an offer to manufacture PPE, but they turned down an offer of American manufactured PPE while trying to source imported PPE from all over the world.

Sorry to disappoint you but your own story says the government turned down the offer from the FW company on jan 22

thats 6 weeks before the kushner team was created

Jerkoff Jared Kushner was imposing himself on the Covid19 response before the Kushner incompetent team was created.

Your arguments do not defend Kusner's incompetence.

Nice try, but this lib lie is going nowhere

It has you aroused. The truth hurts and you are suffering.

You have no truth that hurts me

but your lies could do some damage if we let you get away with them

it is obvious dems are committing treason and spreading chicom propaganda .

They are desperate for something to attack trump with

Dopey Donald Trump is being unfair in performing so poorly an attack on him would look like an act of mercy.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Another duplicate thread by the moron Denizen who obviously is to lazy to check first. The mods have been shutting him down as fast as he can post.

TDS thread

 

[Denizen]

Another duplicate thread by the moron Denizen who obviously is to lazy to check first. The mods have been shutting him down as fast as he can post.

TDS thread

Please don't thank me.