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Trump Fumes Over Puerto Rico Toll As Death Count Rises For Hurricane Florence
2018-09-16 20:29:16   (Visits: 361 Times)
Trump Fumes Over Puerto Rico Toll As Death Count Rises For Hurricane Florence
As Tropical Storm Florence thrashed through the East Coast on Friday,
Carla Herreria
,HuffPost•September 15, 2018
As Tropical Storm Florence thrashed through the East Coast on Friday, resulting in at least five deaths, President Donald Trump took time to dispute once again the number of deaths caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago.

After tweeting praise of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and first responders working during Florence, Trump ranted over a government-commissioned study published last month that reported that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of hurricane damage.

In a tweet, Trump noted a Washington Post article that said officials in Puerto Rico told the president last October that 16 people had died in Hurricane Maria.

“This was long AFTER the hurricane took place. Over many months it went to 64 PEOPLE,” he wrote. “Then, like magic, ’3000 PEOPLE KILLED.’”

“They hired GWU Research to tell them how many people had died in Puerto Rico (how would they not know this?),” Trump added. “FIFTY TIMES LAST ORIGINAL NUMBER - NO WAY!”

The rant about the George Washington University report echoed a tweet from a day earlier in which he accused Democrats of making up the death toll to make him “look as bad as possible,” without providing any proof.

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