Trump denies official estimates of Hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico: '3000 people did not die'
Source: RawStory
BRAD REED
13 SEP 2018 AT 08:41 ET
President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a denial that 3,000 people in Puerto Rico died as a result of Hurricane Maria in 2017.
“3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000…”
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His own government denied 2300 applications for funeral assistance from the storm and only approved 76. So they know damn well that at a minimum 2376 people died and still he lies. He's not lying due to lack of information or stupidity, it's either just lying to try and cover up his utter lack of humanity or lying out of deliberate and wilful ignorance.
But as always, if his orange assmouth or orange tiny little fingers are moving, he's lying. Just pisses me off that the media were so awful at covering this. They could have gone up in the mountains and shown the devastation, but they didn't. They only hung around the few areas on the coast with electricity and food and were way to quickly out of there, letting this enormous story go uncovered. For shame on both, but of course this was caused by drumpfs racism and refusing to stop the rule that no ships could deliver goods to PR without first coming to the USA - raising the shippers profits astronomically and doing the same to the price of goods, making them unaffordable for many residents. FEMA's policies and wrong headed administrator killed the recovery by demanding that only their trucks be used and refusing to use others, cutting the response down to a trickle when it could have been a flood of people helping. It's just so tragic how murderous and awful our government has become under the Russian Repugs. 
