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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen Menendez: You're right, Mr Pres-The Hurricane didn't kill 3,000 people-Your botched response did
Youre right, Mr. President. The Hurricane didnt kill 3,000 people. Your botched response did.Link to tweet
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Sen Menendez: You're right, Mr Pres-The Hurricane didn't kill 3,000 people-Your botched response did (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2018
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shanny
(6,709 posts)1. That is exactly right, and exactly the right framing to make the point. nt
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. Trump killed as many Americans as the 9/11 hijackers
malaise
(269,057 posts)4. KABOOM! n/t
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)5. Did Trump say "They were going to go anyway"...
....like he did with farmers and their lost farms due to tariffs?
kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)6. Touche.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)7. "Fucking eh" that's how all people should talk to the orange tRump
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)8. Trump's botched response to Maria killed these US citizens
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)9. Zing!
Spot on.
ffr
(22,670 posts)10. Americans. 3,000 dead Americans. Citizens of PR are Americans.
Not that there's a difference to most of America. But to the white supremacist conservatives, people of color don't matter. American's do, however.
knightmaar
(748 posts)11. If you hang out with Holocaust deniers enough ...
... I guess you just start believing you can deny the existence of anything.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)12. Most of those people died needlessly
Bob Menendez' response is exactly right. Trump killed them.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)13. Yep...
Touché
TomSlick
(11,100 posts)14. Exactly!
With an appropriate response, the death toll might well have been only the six to eighteen. ALL of the other deaths are on Trump.
Cha
(297,323 posts)15. Wow.. even bush would have gotten excoriated
for this kind of a heinous response to Hurricane Maria.. why isn't The Fraud?
Joseph Snyder
(15 posts)16. Excellent
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)17. k & r
calimary
(81,322 posts)18. Nailed it.
lark
(23,106 posts)19. Perfect response!
Thank you so much Sen. Menendez for showing others how to combat the orange menace lies.
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)20. That was a nice correction of the record. Nt
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)21. Absolutely.
billh58
(6,635 posts)22. Heck of a job
you shit-for-brains wannabe dictator.