Pendejo of the U.S. (aka POTUS) pukes on Puerto Rico — again.

I had to unblock El Pendejo Mentiroso (aka Donald Trump) on twitter to copy his latest lying spew. When he isn’t ranting about hordes of invading terrorists from below our southern border, he turns to his favorite target of abuse — Puerto Rico...you know...that faraway place surrounded by water, that he is President of. The place whose problems he figgered he could sop up with paper towels.

Puerto Rico has been given more money by Congress for Hurricane Disaster Relief, 91 Billion Dollars, than any State in the history of the U.S. As an example, Florida got $12 Billion & Texas $39 Billion for their monster hurricanes. Now the Democrats are saying NO Relief to......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 6, 2019

....Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and others unless much more money is given to Puerto Rico. The Dems don’t want farmers to get any help. Puerto Rico should be very happy and the Dems should stop blocking much needed Disaster Relief!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 6, 2019

He is recycling bullshit from March (which I wrote about in “Trump brags about how much he 'cares' for Puerto Rico and lies about giving PR $91billion”)

Responses to The Liar-in-Chief have been swift.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) points out that the President seems to think disaster aid is some kind of gift he can chose to bestow or withhold.

Helping parts of our country recover from natural disasters is not a favor.

It’s what we do as Americans.

The President, however, is failing our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico and all those rebuilding their lives and communities after disasters.  https://t.co/nfhGo1JixV

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 6, 2019

Schumer blasts Trump for missing deadline to release $8 billion in Puerto Rico aid https://t.co/vdHL8FY1W0 pic.twitter.com/tc9smePnNs

— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2019

Fact Checking President Trump, on disaster relief for Puerto Rico – (1/5) No, Mr. President… Puerto Rico has NOT been appropriated $91 billion. #BudgetTruthSquad

— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) May 6, 2019

FACTS:

To get to the $91 billion figure, a senior administration official told us Trump is including the total allocation for Puerto Rico — $41 billion — plus an estimated $50 billion in future FEMA costs “over the life of the disaster,” which can stretch decades.

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) May 6, 2019

Puerto Rico has NOT received $91 billion, despite what the president is falsely claiming. This is a 20-year estimate of potential liabilities required under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.https://t.co/5BjqsDMhA5

— Andrea González-Ramírez (@andreagonram) May 6, 2019

Again, Puerto Rico has actually received about $11 billion of $41 billion total disaster relief funding approved by the federal govt, not $94 billion as Trump claimed again today.https://t.co/sjAsmQlz5X

— Nidhi Prakash (@nidhiprakash) May 6, 2019

BREAKING: TRUMP: "Puerto Rico has been given.....91 Billion Dollars"

FACT: THIS IS A LIE. So far, just over $11 billion has been sent to the island.

Why does Trump LIE LIKE THIS?

— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) May 6, 2019

Fact check:

Completely and utterly false.  https://t.co/JtedEbnJa1

— Trivia Jockey (@TheTriviaJockey) May 6, 2019

What has sparked his vomitous bile, again, is speculation on my part. Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans are one of his favorite punching bags.

This ploy to pit one part of the U.S. against another — and blame his deadly animus towards Puerto Rico on Democrats with these lying tweets, has more than likely been prompted by looming Congressional investigations of FEMA malfeasance. 

Inbox: Today, all 24 Democratic Members of the Committee on Oversight and Reform sent a letter to the White House "finally seeking documents regarding the Trump Administration's abominable response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 6, 2019

House Democrats are investigating the Trump administration's "abominable" response to Hurricanes Maria and Irma, which killed over 3,000 people in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Of $41B in approved aid for Puerto Rico, it has only sent $11B so far. pic.twitter.com/Ke7sjkQMXn

— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 6, 2019

Spent ~3 weeks on this

We found:

- FEMA officials told Vieques the US would tear down, rebuild their only hospital. That was walked back
- Experts say replacement facilities are unsafe
- Cancer patients have had to wait *32 hours* to reach their doctorshttps://t.co/Qu9uZgplcD

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) May 6, 2019

We obtained FEMA records about the contract given to a one-employee company to provide meals in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. The records show that the company only provided 50,000 of the 30 million meals they were contracted for: https://t.co/jskzESndc3 pic.twitter.com/LFsNQL1m9w

— American Oversight (@weareoversight) May 6, 2019

House Dems reopen investigation into Trump handling of hurricanes that devastated Puerto Rico https://t.co/pY3dLOr2Gm pic.twitter.com/9DICrG04sD

— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2019

It could also be that he saw Red Sox Manager Alex Cora trending on twitter, declining a trip to the White House to eat junk food, and decided to punch down from his bully pulpit.

Wrote this about Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora’s refusal to eat cold Big Macs and flat Coca Cola at the White House. https://t.co/UlEBNiXCP4

— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) May 6, 2019

#RedSox manager Alex Cora says he’s skipping the team’s visit to the White House because he feels his native Puerto Rico has been treated poorly by the Trump administration. https://t.co/myQTd5Luiz

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) May 5, 2019

The Pres. instructed Senate GOP to block any disaster bill that incl. $ for Puerto Rico. His comments indicate he thinks it's a foreign country. It's part of the U.S., & whenever disasters strike we need to help ALL Americans, incl. the 3 million American citizens of Puerto Rico https://t.co/rf091yw6Lr

— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) May 6, 2019

(I post the latest tweets/stories about Puerto Rico here on Daily Kos, each morning, in the daily Abbreviated Pundit Round-up.  This latest Big Whopper merited its own story)

Every Democratic candidate running for POTUS should be speaking out about this. So should your Democratic Congressional Representatives (Republicans are enabling Trump) 

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