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Ocasio-Cortez to Trump on PR deaths: 'my grandfather died in the aftermath of the storm. Uncounted'
CNN ^ | 9-14-18 | Sophie Tatum

Posted on 09/14/2018 11:33:22 AM PDT by SJackson

Ocasio-Cortez to Trump on Puerto Rico deaths: 'My own grandfather died in the aftermath of the storm. Uncounted'

Washington (CNN) — US House Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued a sobering response to President Donald Trump's false claim that 3,000 people did not die in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Following Trump's Thursday morning tweet, Ocasio-Cortez shared her own family's story -- noting that her grandfather died in the aftermath of the storm.

"My own grandfather died in the aftermath of the storm. Uncounted. Thousands of Puerto Ricans have similar stories. They have lost children, friends, & family members. Instead of finger-pointing, INVEST in the Marshall Plan for Puerto Rico + just transition to renewable energy," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.

Ocasio-Cortez, 28, ran against -- and defeated -- incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in New York's 14th Congressional District primary race earlier this year.

"3000 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. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000..." Trump tweeted Thursday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hurricanemaria; ocasiocortez; occasionalcortex; puertorico; trumpfema
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To: SJackson
If Trump was there a week or so after the storm and only about 18 or so were dead, then how do you rate the death of someone a month later that had no electricity, was sleeping under a cardboard roof and was cleaning up in 100 degree heat and died? Did the storm kill him, or just living the life in PR kill him? Give it two weeks to count drowning victims that had to be found or maybe the wounded that got sepsis and then double that number and you still don't get to 100 people. I'm sure with no electricity, no fans or air cond, no refers to cool food, no pumps to drain water, and a lot of manual labor on a bunch of old people, you're going to have some heart attacks. Is dying from cancer because the hospital is on generators a cause? How would Trump fix this? The money was sent. The locals stole it. Is that Trumps fault?

I live in Texas and have gone through many hurricanes. A storm is a gaping hole that you throw money in until the thieves have no more places to put it. Private companies work overtime to get things going. The gubmint stands around pointing at the problem with a clipboard. PR was a basket case before the storm hit and now they want gold plated poles and generators to get ready for the next socialist moron to drain the money supply. If you look at the money we send to these hell holes, divide the money by the residents and we could usually give each person a million dollars and save money. With a million, they could move to Florida or start a new business in PR.

61 posted on 09/14/2018 12:19:18 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: VaeVictis

Good catch. Need to tweet back that little nugget.


62 posted on 09/14/2018 12:23:33 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: rdl6989

Don’t forget, in that newly released study of Hurricane Maria deaths, they included the New YoRicans. lol. A New YoRicans is a New Yorker of PR decent who HAS NEVER SET FOOT ON THE ISLAND! But claims to be Puerto Rican.


63 posted on 09/14/2018 12:26:01 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

That’s what she wants. Getting a nasty Twittergram from POTUS gets her bug eyed little wild Leftist ass back on the front page


64 posted on 09/14/2018 12:27:21 PM PDT by atc23 (M*NKEY - there, I said it!)
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To: SJackson

Dear Occasional-Cortex:

You are a verifiable idiot.

Thanks for playing.

5.56mm


65 posted on 09/14/2018 12:27:35 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: chuckles

Puerto Rico is to blame, it’s Puerto Rico where this happened and their lack of infrastructure and poor government oversight and management.


66 posted on 09/14/2018 12:28:38 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SJackson

She also said her parents lived in a slum tenement when she was born. Anyone from daBronx knows the Parkchester Houses are like Trump Towers compared to the south Bronx. And they’re rather pricey condos since the complex was landmarked because of it’s prewar art deco architecture.


67 posted on 09/14/2018 12:30:07 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: seawolf101

I’m a survivor of the Marjory Parkland school shooting, the PR hurricane, 9/11, WWII, WWI and the Civil War.

Baby, I’ve seen it all


68 posted on 09/14/2018 12:30:32 PM PDT by atc23 (M*NKEY - there, I said it!)
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To: SJackson


69 posted on 09/14/2018 12:30:37 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: atc23
I’m a survivor of the Marjory Parkland school shooting, the PR hurricane, 9/11, WWII, WWI and the Civil War.

The Civil War eh? Maybe we should talk about the need for reparations.

70 posted on 09/14/2018 12:33:09 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: COBOL2Java
Wouldn't you like to have the Blue Tarp distributorship in this s**thole?


71 posted on 09/14/2018 12:34:19 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: SJackson

NOW she cares about her (alleged) grandfather in PR...


72 posted on 09/14/2018 12:34:44 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: SJackson

How many “missing” PR relocated to the United States?


73 posted on 09/14/2018 12:34:53 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: simpson96
NOW she cares about her (alleged) grandfather in PR...

About as much as Obama cared about his brother in Africa.

74 posted on 09/14/2018 12:35:35 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SJackson

“just transition to renewable energy”

How would those wind turbines and solar panels hold up during the hurricane? And how does the power get to homes? WIRES!!


75 posted on 09/14/2018 12:36:50 PM PDT by jack57
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76 posted on 09/14/2018 12:37:29 PM PDT by atc23 (M*NKEY - there, I said it!)
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To: 1Old Pro

[How many “missing” PR relocated to the United States?]

and are now registered to vote with a different identity.


77 posted on 09/14/2018 12:37:31 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: SJackson

I call BS, this lying skank wouldn’t know the truth if it hit her in the face.


78 posted on 09/14/2018 12:38:05 PM PDT by Lucky2 (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: stars & stripes forever
How many “missing” PR relocated to the United States?

Hard to say, we don't count, track or otherwise get any backgourn info on people coming over the border into our country.

79 posted on 09/14/2018 12:39:09 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SJackson

They keep quoting Trump, so they know he said “in the storm”, not “in the aftermath of the storm”. They just don’t care.

And why didn’t she save her grandfather? She has a ton of money, she’s wearing $3500 outfits, and she couldn’t be bothered to buy him a plane ticket and put him up in her place?


80 posted on 09/14/2018 12:42:41 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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