As many of us have read, Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, sent his own plane to China to pick up 1.3 million masks. He also paid $2,000,000 for half the cost of the masks he had flown in on his plane.

Now we know WHY that became necessary:

Gov. Baker said to the media on Thursday, the state had ordered 3 million masks through BJ’s Wholesale in early March but they were confiscated at the Port in New York, State House News Service reported. The governor did not say which agency or organization confiscated the masks. It is also unclear where the 3 million masks went. www.wwlp.com/...

Marylou Sudders, the state’s health and human services secretary, has said they were impounded by the federal government on March 18. www.boston.com/… (TY Ellid)

Feds confiscated the N95 masks intended for doctors, nurses, and first responders when they arrived at the Port of NY. THE VERY CITY where Gov. Andrew Cuomo said only had a couple days of PPE on hand. You can bet the confiscators were outfitted in N95 masks when they did it! Cruel irony, that.

Reports are the feds have been confiscating a lot of PPE. Vital PPE and Ventilators in the national stockpile? According to Jared Kushner, “they’re ours.” (the feds). Hey, you unqualified asshole, they’re OURS — the people of the United States.

The day a reporter asked Trump why the PPE/Ventilators weren’t being sent to states who needed them, the HHS website where information on the national stockpile is found it clearly stated what our national stockpile is for: “distribution to states and localities” — The next day the website was scrubbed of that info!

Thank you Robert Kraft for making lemonade out of the lemons the WH throws like paper towel rolls at states in need of the very PPE America keeps for distribution to states and localities in times like these.

On Friday, Massachusetts State Police troopers arrived at the Javits Center in New York City with a Patriots tractor-trailer containing 300,000 protective masks, the rest will be distributed to health care facilities in Massachusetts.

Kudos to Robert Kraft, and a giant middle finger to the Trump administration.

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UPDATE: See Gwennedd’s very informative comment below about our medical supplies being bought up an hoarded by grifting profiteers who are making states outbid each other for what should be provided for free to states. Red states are getting all they want while NYC and others are in danger of running out in days.

(Check out Gwennedd’s entire comment for more)

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