Published 11:31 IST, May 15th 2020
Donald Trump goes maskless to tour medical equipment facility in Pennsylvania
Amid the Coronavirus crisis that has gripped the US, President Donald Trump visited a mask distribution centre in Pennsylvania, without wearing a mask himself.
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Amid Coronavirus crisis that has gripped US, President Donald Trump visited a mask distribution centre in Pennsylvania, without wearing a mask himself. This comes despite his own ministration's orders to all Americans asking m to strictly sport masks while out in public. Even in White House, staff has been asked to don masks at all times.
Trump visited Owens & Mir Inc distribution centre, which has been one of frontline organisations sending millions of N95 masks, surgical gowns and gloves to hospitals and surgery centres across United States.
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While touring centre, Trump anunced plans to replenish US strategic stockpile of medical equipment depleted by Coronavirus outbreak. This comes a few days after Trump accused Obama ministration of allowing stockpile to be depleted.
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Trump's 'Obamagate' ory
Launching a series of attacks on Twitter earlier this week, Trump accused his predecessor Barack Obama and his aides, including former Vice President and potential Democratic challenger to Trump's re-election bid Joe Biden, for alleging that he h conspired with Russia to win 2016 elections.
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During a press briefing, Trump was asked about exact crime he was accusing Obama of, and he said, "Obama gate, it has been going on for long time. It's been going on for before I even got elected and it's a disgrace that it happened and if you look at what's going on and if you look at w, all of this information that is being released, and from what I understand it is only beginning." However, when he was asked about what crime was, he did t specify and said that crime was "very obvious".
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11:31 IST, May 15th 2020