And he demanded that Azar turn over all contracts Navarro negotiated during the course of the pandemic and provide the panel with relevant communications that involved Trump's trade adviser. The problems over the ventilators could undercut a key White House argument in the run-up to the November elections. "Not a single American who has needed a ventilator has been denied a ventilator," Trump boasted in his speech last week accepting the GOP presidential nomination at the White House. In the CNN interview on Thursday, Navarro described two versions of Philips ventilators as "the dirt bike versus the BMW." Judd Deere, a spokesman for the White House, called the report at the time "partisan," "misleading" and "inaccurate."

Source: CNN September 04, 2020 13:52 UTC