PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News that a Virginia plant that now doesn’t produce anything because Democrat Joe Biden’s administration ruined Trump’s “Made in America” He told us exclusively that he is considering accepting a tour offer from the factory’s CEO. ” initiatives.
Asked in an exclusive 90-minute interview whether he would consider visiting a facility owned by Blue Star NBR in southwestern Virginia, Trump said, “Of course.”
Bluestar CEO Scott Meyer recently told Breitbart News that he would welcome President Trump to tour the company’s facility in Virginia. The facility is currently in “storage” due to the Biden administration’s mishandling of an effort begun during the Trump era.
Blue Star was born to manufacture nitrile gloves domestically. Tens of billions of nitrile gloves are used each year in this country, as healthcare workers, law enforcement, first responders, food handlers, and high-end technology producers regularly wear them. . As Breitbart News and other news outlets have reported, none of these gloves were made in the U.S. during the Trump administration at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, with the supply chain relying entirely on overseas production. It became clear that it was. The proportion of imports of these gloves from Communist China has also increased rapidly during President Biden’s term, and this trend could result in the majority of gloves being imported from Communist China by the end of this year.
Employees work on the nitrile glove production line at the factory of Zhonghong Pullin Medical Products Co., Ltd. in Ruanan County, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, China, May 6, 2022. (Zhang Yongxin/VCG, Getty Images)
The Biden administration’s failures, as detailed in a letter from Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) to Mr. The main reason for this was the transfer to HHS. Department of Health Secretary Xavier Becerra — Blue Star and facilities like it are producing nothing, despite spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to set them up.
Virginia Senate candidate Hung Kao said Biden’s failures cost Virginia thousands of jobs. Meyer pointed this out to President Trump, especially given the fact that Biden spent much of his State of the Union address highlighting how billions of dollars in spending don’t make much sense for the country. He said he wanted to show it to him. .
“We welcome anyone who wants to come and see all the effort that has gone into this, to see a state-of-the-art facility that is largely in storage, capable of producing critical items that this country desperately needs.” “I do,” Meyer told Breitbart News. this month. “But instead, we are simply more dependent on China than we were before the pandemic began.”
“It’s terrible,” Trump said in an interview with Breitbart News last week when asked about Biden’s waste of taxpayer money on producing nothing domestically.
“He’s taking money and investing it in the Green New Scam,” President Trump told Breitbart News. “Instead of reducing the debt, the entire amount will be invested in Green New Scam.”
President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory Zero electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Wednesday, November 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
It wasn’t just the gloves that Biden failed.recent reports show Because of Biden’s failures, the U.S. is also dependent on foreign countries for syringes.
President Trump said in an interview with Breitbart News that Biden’s failure to address these issues is weakening the supply chain for critical personal protective equipment and other key health equipment, putting the nation at risk. He even said that he was exposed. Furthermore, the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) has major deficiencies and weaknesses, and Biden has done nothing to replenish it.
“Remember masks? We were making them up in New Hampshire,” Trump said. “We were doing a great job on that. That’s one thing I never got credit for. I get credit for having a strong economy and I get credit for good foreign policy. I get credit for many things, but not for this. When I came to the house, I always said the cupboards were empty. We didn’t have anything. We didn’t have gloves, we didn’t have masks, we didn’t have anything. I’m not even going to blame past administrations, because who would have imagined that something like a pandemic could happen? It’s an ancient problem. It sounded like. But it was a disaster and it could happen again.”
President Trump has previously said he would put up a “tough fight” in some states that Democrats won in recent elections, including Virginia. Going back to his last long sit-down interview with Breitbart News at Mar-a-Lago in December, Trump said he plans to compete in places like Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico, New Jersey and New York. he said.
Two deer roam near the Blue Star NBR plant in Wytheville, Virginia, on December 8, 2023. (Alison Lee Eisley, The Washington Post, via Getty Images)
For 50 years, until Democratic Party Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008, Republicans held Virginia in all but one presidential election, but since then, Democrats have held the former autonomous state in presidential elections. continuing. But one of President Trump’s top campaign aides, Chris Lacivita, has extensive experience in Virginia politics.
President Trump’s visits to places like the Blue Star facility to highlight the grave failures of Biden’s spending program and the thousands of jobs Biden has taken away from federal citizens will open the state’s doors for him. It may be part of the magic needed. Virginia has 13 electors, and if Trump wins, it will be very difficult for Biden to gather 270 electors, making it almost certain that Trump will return to the White House. .
