Trump son-in-law and nepotistic staffer at the White House Jared Kushner attempted to extort the CEO of Pfizer for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine after realizing the Trump Administration failed to order enough, the executive relates in a Forbes editorial.
Kushner, Trump’s wunderkind whom was assigned various tasks like solving Middle East peace, reimagining veterans healthcare, and solving the opioid epidemic, confronted Albert Boura, Pfizer’s CEO, after learning Pfizer was shipping vaccines to Canada and Central America because those governments ordered vaccines. The Trump Administration turned down an option to increase their initial order of 50 million doses, so Pfizer was fulfilling orders from other countries.
Perpetually impotent, Kushner tried to exercise nonexistent authority to claim the government would simply seize the vaccines and “take measures” to assure their confiscation. “Be my guest, Jared,” Boura replied. “I prefer to have Japan’s prime minister complaining to you about the cancellation of the Olympics rather than to me.”