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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 02:31 PM Apr 2019

Trump hits out at 'crazed and incompetent' Puerto Rican leaders after disaster bill fails

Hours after the Senate voted down a disaster relief package that Democrats argued didn’t include enough money to help storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, President Trump took to Twitter on Monday night to lash out at the opposition party and the island’s leaders.

Trump, who has reportedly said in private that he doesn’t want “another single dollar” going to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, again complained about funding for the island and called San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, a frequent critic, “crazed and incompetent.”

“The Democrats today killed a Bill that would have provided great relief to Farmers and yet more money to Puerto Rico despite the fact that Puerto Rico has already been scheduled to receive more hurricane relief funding than any ‘place’ in history,” Trump tweeted around 11 p.m. “The people of Puerto Rico are GREAT, but the politicians are incompetent or corrupt.”

Trump’s late-night outburst suggests there won’t be an easy resolution to the political dispute holding up federal money for those deluged in Midwestern floods and hit by other recent natural calamities. Although disaster relief is traditionally bipartisan, Trump’s reluctance to pay more toward Puerto Rico’s recovery has opened a gulf between the parties.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-hits-out-at-crazed-and-incompetent-puerto-rican-leaders-after-disaster-bill-fails/ar-BBVw83o?li=BBnbcA1

Crazed and incompetent? There you go projecting again.

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Trump hits out at 'crazed and incompetent' Puerto Rican leaders after disaster bill fails (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 OP
Yeah Donald, the politicians running the Puerto Rican Country are incompetent or corrupt MiniMe Apr 2019 #1
There he goes "projecting" again. allgood33 Apr 2019 #2

MiniMe

(21,717 posts)
1. Yeah Donald, the politicians running the Puerto Rican Country are incompetent or corrupt
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 04:35 PM
Apr 2019

BTW, you do know that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, don't you?

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