Link , Link , See>>(Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that his administration would provide just 100 ventilators to the state of Colorado, more than a week after Gov. Jared Polis requested 10,000 to help hospitals prepare for the coronavirus outbreak. In his announcement, Trump shunned the state's Democratic governor, opting instead to praise a Republican ally, Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner. "Will be immediately sending 100 Ventilators to Colorado at the request of Senator Gardner!" Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. "It's a racket," state Sen. Jessie Danielson, a Democrat, tweeted Wednesday morning after Trump's announcement. "This is literally racketeering. The White House is keeping 80% of the ventilators they stole from Colorado — and bestowing 20% of what they stole as a political favor." Gardner, a first-term senator, is up for reelection in November. He has consistently supported Trump's agenda in the Senate and endorsed Trump's 2020 campaign in January 2019. Trump has heaped praise upon Gardner. "We went through hoaxes, we went through the impeachment scam," Trump said at a Feb. 20 rally in Colorado Springs. "And by the way, Cory was with us all the way. He didn't move, he didn't budge." "In exchange for his '100%' support for Trump, Gardner gets 1% of the ventilators Colorado needs," the Colorado Democratic Party tweeted Wednesday, contrasting the actual number provided with the 10,000 ventilators Polis requested.)