Trump’s Puerto Rico Death-Toll Denial Keeps Boomeranging on His Own Team
President Trump’s false insistence that Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria death toll was exaggerated kept drawing more outrage on September 16, with FEMA Administrator Brock Long forced to defend the president’s claim on Sunday television. The result was another grim reminder that the White House was not merely reopening a painful disaster; it was asking federal officials to help sell a fact pattern that did not hold up.
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Trump’s Puerto Rico Death-Toll Denial Keeps Boomeranging on His Own Team
President Trump’s false insistence that Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria death toll was exaggerated kept drawing more outrage on September 16, with FEMA Administrator Brock Long forced to defend the president’s claim on Sunday television. The result was another grim reminder that the White House was not merely reopening a painful disaster; it was asking federal officials to help sell a fact pattern that did not hold up.
President Trump’s false insistence that Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria death toll was exaggerated kept drawing more outrage on September 16, with FEMA Administrator Brock Long forced to defend the president’s claim on Sunday television. The result was another grim reminder that the White House was not merely reopening a painful disaster; it was asking federal officials to help sell a fact pattern that did not hold up.
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