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demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 07:00 AM Apr 2019

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

Source: WaPo

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 hit 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. While disaster relief is traditionally bipartisan, Trump’s reluctance to pay more toward Puerto Rico’s recovery has opened a gulf between the parties.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/02/crazed-incompetent-trump-hits-out-puerto-rican-leaders-after-disaster-bill-fails/?utm_term=.a821640d3ec6&tid=sm_tw

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'Crazed and incompetent': Trump hits out at Puerto Rican leaders after disaster bill fails (Original Post) demmiblue Apr 2019 OP
Take the money from the Pentagon, watoos Apr 2019 #1
Rants of a racist pig whose Puerto Rico golf club went bankrupt Submariner Apr 2019 #2
From the article - "While disaster relief is traditionally bipartisan" BumRushDaShow Apr 2019 #3
+1 ChiTownDenny Apr 2019 #4
They're pure evil. BigmanPigman Apr 2019 #7
Rump thinks someone else is crazed and incompetent. Huh. Mc Mike Apr 2019 #5
Headline needs punctuation corrections. SeattleVet Apr 2019 #6

Submariner

(12,504 posts)
2. Rants of a racist pig whose Puerto Rico golf club went bankrupt
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 08:06 AM
Apr 2019

and he stuck PR with the $33 million bankruptcy loss to add on to its already smothering debt. Wish he would just choke on a big mac and die.

BumRushDaShow

(129,096 posts)
3. From the article - "While disaster relief is traditionally bipartisan"
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 08:22 AM
Apr 2019

No it hasn't been in the past 10 years.

Under Obama's 8 years, the GOP consistently refused to fund and/or tried to block providing aid to ANY states that experienced disasters but had voted for Obama or areas in other states that were blue.

As an example, here is a run down from 2013 and before illustrating just that type of GOP nasty and arrogant behavior -

http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/flashback-gop-has-history-blocking-disa

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
6. Headline needs punctuation corrections.
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 01:53 PM
Apr 2019

Fixed it:


"Crazed and Incompetent tRump hits out at Puerto Rican Leaders After Disaster Bill Fails"

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