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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Tue Sep 11, 2018, 05:15 PM Sep 2018

Schumer blasts Trump's 'offensive,' 'blatantly false' Puerto Rico remark

Trump on Tuesday afternoon touted the federal response to Hurricane Maria as one of his administration’s “best jobs” after being asked what lessons the government can take from 2017 as it prepares for Hurricane Florence, which is expected to hit the East Coast later this week.

Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday slammed President Trump over his claim that the federal response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year was an "unsung success."

"This is an offensive, hurtful and blatantly false comment from the president," Schumer tweeted. "Nearly 3,000 of our fellow citizens died in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. That is the complete opposite of ‘success.’"

Nearly 3,000 people died because of the storm, according to an independent study announced by the island's governor. It wasn’t until last month, nearly 11 months after the hurricane hit, that Puerto Rico's government-owned utility announced it had restored electricity to all of its customers.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/406140-schumer-trumps-puerto-rico-comment-offensive-blatantly-false

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Schumer blasts Trump's 'offensive,' 'blatantly false' Puerto Rico remark (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2018 OP

They were killed, mass murder by a sick fuck who hates anyone brown or that wont Eliot Rosewater Sep 2018 #1

too bad not one reporter in the room had the guts to call him out on his lies RussBLib Sep 2018 #2

Both, but you don't want to get yourself or your medium to get banned. TreasonousBastard Sep 2018 #3

I guarantee you whoever stands up to Trump RussBLib Sep 2018 #9

please. after they belatedly sent a hospital ship, IT DIDNT EVEN DOCK!! mopinko Sep 2018 #4

This Hekate Sep 2018 #5

that is monstrous Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2018 #6

What about Trump's claim that the electric plant was down before the doc03 Sep 2018 #7

Well, MyOwnPeace Sep 2018 #8

Thanks for calling out the STUPID SOCIOPATHIC SHITE Cha Sep 2018 #10

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. They were killed, mass murder by a sick fuck who hates anyone brown or that wont

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 05:30 PM

Sep 2018

kiss his ass.

RussBLib

(9,019 posts)

2. too bad not one reporter in the room had the guts to call him out on his lies

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 05:34 PM

Sep 2018

I thought we had dispensed with that "only report what they say" bullshit.

Is a reporters job to just report? Or to try to get to the truth?

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

3. Both, but you don't want to get yourself or your medium to get banned.

Reply to RussBLib (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 05:42 PM

Sep 2018

RussBLib

(9,019 posts)

9. I guarantee you whoever stands up to Trump

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 09:31 PM

Sep 2018

will become a hero of sorts

They might get fired, but they'd get another job.

Plus, watching the Orange Cheeto meltdown would be priceless.

mopinko

(70,112 posts)

4. please. after they belatedly sent a hospital ship, IT DIDNT EVEN DOCK!!

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2018, 05:52 PM

Sep 2018

it sat out there, w the capacity to save so many of these lives, and created a bureaucratic maze for people to get care.

it only docked in san juan after it made the news that it was sitting there, treating a handful of people.
it never went to any other port. it never worked at capacity. it never even distributed the fresh water it was capable of making. and it left a whole lot of sick people behind when it pulled out to go nowhere.

that is my indelible memory of what a fucked up mess the whole thing was. that ship, sitting just far enough out to sea to be a total waste.