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On Thursday, US President Donald Trump said the Obama administration handed over control in January 2017 of a federal stockpile of crucial medical equipment that was bare, but it remained that way until recent months even as coronavirus spread across the country. President Trump used his latest trip to the political battleground state to put pressure on its Democrat governor Tom Wolf to lift his stay-at-home order. Trump claimed there are sections of the Keystone State that could get back to something resembling a normal life, but Wolf hasn’t yet opened them. Trump said, “Can’t do that”. He did not, however, say whether he would seek to force Wolf to give such an order. But his main message was to blast the Obama administration.

Donald Trump informed workers at a medical supply distribution facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He said, “The cupboards were bare when we came into this administration. Under the previous administration, most of the stockpile was depleted and never refilled.” He also alleged that the Obama administration didn’t purchase new face masks after the H1N1 outbreak. But neither did his administration during his first 3-years in office. President Trump informed reporters and said, “We were, we were given very little when we came into this administration. He claimed his administration has done a fantastic job. It is noteworthy that Johns Hopkins University has indicated there are more than 85,000 Americans dead in the country due to widespread Covid-19.

President Trump didn’t explain in his remarks at the facility just why his administration didn’t refill any depleted supplies of potentially life-saving equipment. He pledged to build a stockpile that is the envy of the world. His aides said on early Thursday that they are looking to bring medical supply chains back to the United States. Trump appeared in the Keystone State and said, “We’re far too dependent on other countries. I said, How about investing in our country? We had a bunch of globalists who didn’t know what the hell they were doing.” Some GOP Senators are also calling for considerably more Covid-19 tests. Trump administration is reportedly looking for a 90-day supply of critical medical items.