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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Absolutely not. Truth is a defense to libel, but not to media narratives. It was absolutely unnecessary for President Trump to have said anything when that newest report with “estimated deaths” came out. His Twitter account is his worst enemy (well, after Leftists and the media).
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