Posted on 09/13/2018 6:19:12 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Jeb Bush criticized President Trump's controversial tweets about the death toll in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
"Incredibly disheartening comments from our President," Bush tweeted Thursday.
Trump beat the former Florida governor for the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
Trump sparked controversy earlier Thursday when he tweeted that the estimated 3,000 death toll was intentionally inflated by Democrats.
The 3,000 approximation comes from a George Washington University study that tried to total how many "excess deaths" occurred because of Hurricane Maria and would not have happened in the absence of the cyclone.
Those involved with the study have emphasized that the 3,00 estimate(!) is not a conclusive number and further work should be done.
"Among all the deaths that occurred, which of them were related to Maria, which of them would not have occurred if it hadn't been for the storm? We're not able to say that now," the dean of GW's Milken Institute School of Public Health, Lynn Goldman, told CNN late last month.
The president has not brought forward any evidence for his claim Democrats falsified the number.
Trump has been roundly criticized for his tweets on the left and the right, even among some of his most staunch defenders.
Still, the White House defended the president's statements Thursday.
"President Trump was responding to the liberal media and the San Juan Mayor who sadly have tried to exploit the devastation by pushing out a constant stream of misinformation and false accusations," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Thursday to CNN.
Attaboy Bushies. Stone cold silence from you bastards during eight years of someone even worse than W.
Oh really? I guess even Droopy has his limits before whipping out a six pack of Whoop-A**.
“Disheartening”? Hell, low energy Jeb, you’ve ALWAYS LACKED “heart”.
Get ye back to your state of irrelevance!
It's almost like separated at birth.
AS they should. You have the RATs lying about it and the presstitutes repeating those lies.
No one else speaks up for Trump.
Yeb, we did not ask you to chime in. Now go back and sit in the corner.
Jeb! ran? Really? Who knew? Did anyone clap?
Jen, just go away
The truth is always disheartening to those who prefer the lie.
The problem is that he was too short and needed to stand on tippie toes to be seen.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that he has "no reason" to dispute the finding that nearly 3,000 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria, despite President Trump doing so earlier in the day.
“Casualties don’t make a person look bad,” Ryan told reporters at a press conference, according to Reuters. “I have no reason to dispute these numbers.”
“Mr. Pocket Turtle”. More like “Mr. Pocket Pool”. Yick!
The Socialists in charge in PR used the hurricane as a political hammer and let their own people do without food and water and other needed supplies just to try to make President Trump look bad. The supplies were there, the PR authorities would not hand them out.
President Trump has every right to set the story straight. People here need to know the truth, people in Puerto Rico need to know the truth—everyone needs to know the truth.
Why does Jeb think the truth should not be told about what happened?
He only married the dwarf so he wouldn't have to stand on his tippy toes during family photo ops.
Jeb Bush the Mexican ?
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