Florida emergency management official says 3M selling masks to foreign countries: 'We're chasing ghosts'

Fox News ^ | 3/2/20 | Yael Halon

[Revel]

The head of Florida's Division of Emergency Management has accused U.S. mask manufacturer 3M of shipping the critical protective equipment to foreign countries who outbid U.S. buyers -- even as hospitals and state officials desperately scramble to secure N95 protective masks for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.

Jared Moskowitz told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday that he discovered that 3M distributors were prioritizing foreign buyers after they refused to sell him the essential equipment.

"For the last several weeks, we have had a boiler room chasing down 3M authorized distributors [and] brokers representing that they sell the N95 masks, only get to warehouses that are completely empty," Moskowitz said. "[We are] being told that our shipments are on cargo planes and the flights don't even appear. We are chasing ghosts. I just decided to turn up the heat and tell people what is actually happening in the N95 mask space."

Moskowitz claimed to have reached out to many 3M authorized distributors in the United States to confirm his suspicions, and said he was shocked to find American companies quietly partnering with foreign buyers at a time of national crisis.

[Revel]

" The idea that an American company is selling masks away from our hospitals...doctors...the real heroes on the front lines is... really criminal." — Jared Moskowitz

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TRUMP TWEETS ABOUT IT:

“We hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their Masks. ‘P Act’ all the way.’ Big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing - will have a big price to pay!” Trump said on Twitter.

[Gene Eric]

Meanwhile, the Rats, Pelosi & Schiff, are starting another fight.

[madison10]

Great. 3M tells the team that they are making masks for the U.S and then sells them to another country. Real classy, that.

[chris37]

Far as I’m concerned, they can put 3M in prison.

[catnipman]

Peter Navarro announced at President Trump’s presser today that President Trump has already issued a DPA EO clobbering 3M, AND said EO includes orders for the Feds to track down all transportation of shipments of these materials extracted from 3m up to and including customs officials at the ports and seize said materials ... President Donald Trump IS REALLY PISSED!

[the_daug]

My father would not buy from Standard oil company because their logo was on Japanese ships during WWII. 3M is looking to do the same?

[jimnm]

There was a Forbes article about a day in the life of a mask broker and on a single day, 43 million N95 masks in New Jersey were sold overseas. There wasn’t one American buyer because the American buyers didn’t have permission to buy right then and there. Just a joke, basically.

Many other countries stopped N95 mask exports. South Korea initially allowed 10% exports then 0% a couple days later. Crazy that the USA is still exporting medical equipment that is in short supply in the USA. Kind of like the article yesterday about USAID sending medical equipment overseas while we were asking the same countries for the same aid.

This isn’t 3M’s fault.

[lodi90]

3M = Minnesota Mining and manufacturing. Appears that disgraceful globalist filth is running it now.

[eyedigress]

Its a lie.

[griffin]

No, distributors are selling the masks.
3M is just letting them.

Very unAmerican.

[griffin]

I come from a 3M family. Worked there for 3 generations.
I am VERY sorry that 3M isn’t steering their stock away from ruthless distributors.

[LongWayHome]

Trump just kicked their globalist teeth in tonight.

[Sequoyah101]

Watch 3M blame it on their distributors.

Can’t price gouge in the US? Fine, we’ll price gouge somewhere else.

I don’t know what a “P Act” is but I hope Trump and DOJ take some heads.

Principles may count again.

[Sequoyah101]

I hope he is pissed enough to cause others to pay really, really close attention.

Looks like he is really pissed at schmuckie as well.

I believe the gloves have come off for good now.

[familyop]

Managers, investors and politicians have been partnering with foreign communist enemies against us for over 40 years while calling us communists.

[familyop]

Besides colluding with foreign communists for so long, they also destroyed our families with the changes in law and policies of the divorce/cohabitation/feminist paradigm. It’s all about contemporary slavery and the tactics used to implement it.

[Sequoyah101]

BTW. I saw a $10 scrawny broiler chicken at Aldi today. Said it was non-GMO or something like that. Must be a special chicken. Didn’t buy it. I guess that is a regular price. No other chickens to be had there though.

Vet also told me that some woman tried to trade two rolls of toilet paper for wormer, vaccination and food for her cat. Wonder what sheeple are going to do with all this freakin’ TP?

[Celtic Conservative]

Defense production act.

CC

[Sequoyah101]

OK, did not realize we had sunk to jargon already.

Thanks.

Hope fines come out of some execs pockets.

[grey_whiskers]

I'll bet she's a Completely Uunhinged Never-Trumper...