US President Donald Trump is disputing that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico after the island was hit by two hurricanes last year.
"3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico," Mr Trump wrote on Twitter, without offering evidence for the claim.
He added that Democrats had inflated the official death toll to "make me look as bad as possible".
The official figure was released last month after an independent study.
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Last May, Harvard University public health researchers estimated the death toll was even higher.
They said about 4,600 people died in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the hurricane from delayed medical care.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45511865
No, shit for brains. You horribly understated the death toll to make it look like somehow you saved the day. Probably because it would have been a stretch even for you to deny a hurricane even happened.
Yeah im sure they all were just crisis actors
Clearly they were only 3/5ths people.
"3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico," Mr Trump wrote on Twitter, without offering evidence for the claim.
Yeah, and I'm sure next you'll tell us that 3,000 people did not die in the September 11th attacks, right? Those buildings just spontaneously combusted, but nobody was inside them, or something.
Fuck you. If ever there were a perfect example of an authoritarian rejecting truth in favor of obscene fiction, this is it. Donald Trump is a disgrace to the office of the presidency and a threat to democracy and the rule of law.
Our president is denying the deaths of thousands of US citizens.
Let that sink in...
Degenerates, subhuman vermin. That's all he'll ever amount to.
Donald Trump is a traitor to the United States of America and seems determined to make that as obvious as possible.
fake deaths is a new scary one of this presidency.
But those attacks were caused by brown people so the death toll could be even higher than 3,000. There's some reports the death toll could be 6,000, 12,000 and even up to 100,000. This is why we need to focus on building a wall to stop the bad hombres from raping and murdering our innocent children.
At the same time, one of the president's top advisors thinks the towers were emptied the night before and demolished by drone strikes.
How the fuck do you even think that considering there's an almost literal mountain of film and photo that shows planes hitting the towers and people jumping out of the towers?????
Literal propaganda.
NYT and Wapo are both leading with "Trump falsely claims", as all news outlets should be
Really? Who?
This is a good thread
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040229427102314496?s=19
I unironically say that I'm surprised there's been no mass breaking out the guillotines style violent protest against the Republicans yet. Especially in a country that likes to make regular use of the phrase "organised militia". Like antifa yeah, but I mean full on borderline domestic terrorism. Not necessarily endorsing it, though at this point it seems inevitable and arguable justifiable. We've got shit like this done, purely to siphon budget away from helping non-whites in a crisis situation. We've got refugee children being tortured. We've got arms being sold to country's committing human rights violations. People being appointed positions of power openly just to protect the interests of those already in power. And more and more and more and more.
Alex Jones. Trump's a big fan of his.
Sadly Republicans have cornered the market on terrorist militias, so the usual suspects are on their side.
This is like...really bad. This is something that you get coup'd over in some less stable countries, I'd imagine, ignoring the plight of one of your states? Just vote in November and in 2020, we outnumber conservacunts and they don't ever need to win again.
Maybe news can just release headlines like "trump spits in the face of America" each time he says something this obscene.
Here we go. Trump is angry that he's being made to look bad by the cold hard realty of American citizen deaths, so he's rejecting that fact.
He shouldn't have bragged that he handled it better than Katrina, because the death toll is now higher than Katrina and is the worst natural disaster in modern America, by body count. The dumb fucker trapped himself in a corner and he's blaming Democrats for his shitty lack of accomplishment.
Anything to prop himself up, no conscience, no morals, a normal president would recognize it as a horrible tragedy and strive to do better, instead we get this fucking goon patting himself on the back on twitter. I miss Obama
Nah they're a couple of shades too far down the dulux colour chart he doesn't give a shit.
Puerto Rico is a territory that speaks spanish, he doesn't care. And the second Trump and Pence are out of office Republicans will control congress again with a fresh scapegoat.
The Carolinas will try substantially better response because there's voters there and Republicans need to make sure to get every vote they can get.
It's awful to say, but the response to Florence will become heavily politicized.
Hate to politicize, but 100K Puerto Ricans have moved to Florida, which may tip the scales
Oh boy, a flimsy pretext to call back to some of my assorted 'Tinyhands is not the problem' posts!
Remember, this is who the Republican party is protecting through their consistent inaction and total silence
This is the volume of information available to someone like me
I'll reemphasize this video from the first linked post
And of course link the transcript so helpfully provided
And of course the ones you should read the most. Starting with this massive timeline of Tinyhands' life and connections
This is the Moscow Project, which is easier to use as a quick reference with a narrower focus on his connections with Putin's allies
And just because it feels relevant to my salient point, an article about the Russian money in the NRA, one of the party's longest serving and most potent political assets
See also: the Wikipedia article on the Citizens United ruling and the Southern Strategy, which I promise are also related.
This is the Republican party's fault. They knew what they were getting in to. It's been plain to see since the very beginning
Trump would have blamed 9/11 on the Democrats if he'd been President. Not joking
God I hate Trump so much. Every once and a while it'll kinda slip from my mind just how genuinely awful of a human being he is, but thankfully he usually wastes no time in reminding me.
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