Posted on 09/13/2018 9:16:23 AM PDT by tkocur
President Donald Trump on Thursday denied the massive death toll estimate in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria last year, claiming without evidence that Democrats invented the numbers "to make me look as bad as possible."
"3,000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths," Trump tweeted Thursday morning. "As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3,000."
Trump added that, "This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico."
"If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics," Trump said.
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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics....
Anything the Democrats touch turns to crap
Including that island, beautiful but infested with people who have lost initiative in a Government steeped in Graft
Can we fly in and retrieve out 1 million bottles of water that the let sit on their damned runways. What paid for that?
The official death toll was 64
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/08/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-toll.html
That is from the slimes
If the official number is 64, which is still a lot but not 3,000 that is claimed by the MSM and the Political Puerto Rico Government. The 3,000+ number is counting people who died of a heart attack or whatever and they are claiming since they did not have power they could not have been saved. And since the power was knocked out by the hurricane, it is storm related. The numbers include people who died 6+ months out from the storm.
It is a little misleading and is only to pump up the numbers to hit President Trump with. Because we all know President Trump is 100% responsible for the power grid in Puerto Rico, it is not even a state and the local government did not give a rats rear end about it either until piles of money was being thrown around to fix it. Only then they cared and complained the contractor picked to fix it wasn’t chosen by the Puerto Rican government, AKA no kickbacks were given, so they were pissed.
The water is likely beyond the expiry date
Of course he is going to say that, who has been moving into Florida?
Foam boy knows who butters his bread
Let’s get a list of the people killed by the hurricane. This was allegedly the same number of people killed on 9/11. Print their names, the date of death and the official cause of death on the death certificates. Make these clowns prove their exaggerated claims.
The PR govt amended that to 2975 based on these “studies” which did not establish anything close to hurricane deaths...just death after the hurricane,which was based off extrapolating mortality rates into raw numbers. Very scientific.
And he’s right; the 3,000 figure was determined by a computer analysis, not a body count. Essentially, researchers at George Washington University determined the number of people who died during the specified period, versus the estimated mortality rate if there hadn’t been a storm.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6164089/Trump-says-claim-Puerto-Rico-hurricane-killed-2-975-people-FAKE.html
This is junk science at its worst—and funded with your tax dollars. What’s worse, weasels like Paul Ryan say there’s “no reason to challenge the numbers.” Can’t wait to see the corner of the swamp where Ryan takes up residence after leaving office.
CNN says he’s claiming they didn’t die.
That is NOT POTUS is claiming.
OMG the MSM is so evil.
Ill drink it!! Ha. What a poor work ethic those people have. Can you image the government corruption that put them billions in debt. I am so glad we are not paying that debt.
9/11 early estimates were 20,000 to 30,000 DEAD.
Not disparaging the dead, just the news media (the undead)
“storm related”?
Isn’t she peddling a book someone wrote for her?
“””It is a little misleading and is only to pump up the numbers to hit President Trump with. Because we all know President Trump is 100% responsible for the power grid in Puerto Rico, it is not even a state and the local government did not give a rats rear end about it either until piles of money was being thrown around to fix it”””
Several years ago the Puerto Rican government robbed money from the Puerto Rico Electric Company to payoff the debts they had incurred elsewhere. The Puerto Rican power grid was in trouble before the 2017 hurricanes and the storms only made things worse.
Puerto Rico was planning on the USA taxpayers to build a new power grid for them.
I once discussed that very thing with my BIL who was an Oncologist and had signed many, many death certs. over the years.
He said no doctor should ever put that as the cause of death since it's unverifiable. You put the actual cause such as pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, heart attack, liver failure or some other such terminal illness.....
There was an original estimate which was low. ("The deaths of 64 people were initially directly attributed to the hurricane by the government of Puerto Rico")
Groups began re-evaluating the numbers and extending deaths past the actual hurricane claiming these people died as a result of the hurricane.
It went from 64 to 3000. People are probably still dying from Hurricane Maria.
How many military deaths occurred after President Obama changed the rules of engagement in the Middle East?
Let me add that it was in June 2013 while Obama was President that Puerto Rico robbed funds from the PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY to pay the debts incurred elsewhere by the Puerto Rico government.
Two can play the blame game.
President Obama had the opportunity to clean up the Puerto Rico mess in 2013 and he did nothing but kick the can down the road.
The 64 number was the official number of dead, aka bodies.
All other numbers have been estimates, a computer simulation/program developed to estimate deaths based on not having proper infrastructure after the hurricane, the time period was for 6 months after the hurricane.
The numbers are fake since they are not counting bodies but imaginary people who might have or could have died.
64 is still the official number, everything else is political BS
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