The Prevaricator-in-Chief decided to add insult to injury to Puerto Ricans who are both mourning their dead from Hurricane Maria and struggling to survive a less than stellar response from the U.S. Government — headed by the President of Puerto Rico — Donald Trump.
Just a quick post as I sit here and seethe.
What makes this travesty even worse is that he has now claimed Puerto Rico had no power before Maria.
“I think we did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico. We’re still helping Puerto Rico. The governor is an excellent guy and he’s very happy with the job we’ve done. We have put billions and billions of dollars into Puerto Rico.
And it was a very tough one. Don’t forget, their electric plant was dead before the hurricane. If you look back on your records, you’ll see that plant was dead, it was shut, it was bankrupt, it was out of business. They owed tremendous amounts of money. They had it closed up. And then when the hurricane came, people said, ‘What do are we going to do about electricity?’ That wasn’t really the hurricane. That was gone before the hurricane.”
This is complete and total bullshit.
No the power was not “dead” before Maria.
Yes — PREPA has had issues — however the post Maria deaths were a direct result of failure to get relief systems in place. Period.
I really have no more to say except I’m sitting here watching him get away with yet another lie in the long daily history of lies that he and Republicans represent.
Word for the day — F-U Trump.