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With a monster hurricane spinning towards the east coast, President Donald Trump took a moment during a briefing on Tuesday to herald the awful, delayed response to 2017’s Hurricane Maria as an “unsung success,” sparking outrage online.
During briefing on approach of Hurricane #Florence, Pres. Trump calls government’s response to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria “tremendous.”
“I think that Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success.” https://t.co/mBxz2xIKzY pic.twitter.com/37K3iRkvd1
— ABC News (@ABC) September 11, 2018
Calling it “one of the best jobs that’s ever been done with respect to what this is all about,” Trump is ignoring what was, in fact, a dreadful response that cost more lives than what the storm death toll originally claimed. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Trump says his response to the hurricane that killed almost 3,000 people was 'incredibly successful'
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