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Jeb Bush weighs in on Trump’s Puerto Rico tweets: ‘Incredibly disheartening’
The Hill ^ | 09/13/18 | Megan Keller

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
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To: yesthatjallen
Must listen on this. He tears into the RINOs:

Dan Bongino Show

81 posted on 09/13/2018 8:17:29 PM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Jeb Bush: ‘Incredibly disheartening’”

Jeb, them’s some mighty powerful words there partner!

You better be careful or you might break your clutching-pearls or sprain your wrist while hand-wringing if you keep up with those kinds of fighin’ words, bud!


82 posted on 09/13/2018 8:26:44 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: yesthatjallen
Public Estimates — pick any issue — they are always wrong, always inflated.

AIDS crossover to hetrosexual population-

College rape epidemic -

Asian Bird Flue -

Ebola -

Their inflation is so bad it should be called conflation.

When in doubt, count.

83 posted on 09/13/2018 8:27:30 PM PDT by PsyCon
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To: Truth29

“It is incredibly disheartening that little Jebbie has not emigrated to a Latin country where he would clearly be more comfortable.”

not to mention, they’d be great places to set up gauca bowl stands to unload all of those unsold gauca bowls ...


84 posted on 09/13/2018 8:29:22 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“He’s going to run again...”

ROTFLOL!


85 posted on 09/13/2018 8:30:45 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: yesthatjallen

Did the study include how many of these “deaths” could be attributed to Puerto Rican corruption?


86 posted on 09/13/2018 8:32:53 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Screw Bush, McCain)
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To: lee martell
Your memory is faulty. Droopy was taciturn and slow to anger but always got the upper hand in the end when a nemesis tried to take advantage of him. He even got the girl sometimes:
87 posted on 09/13/2018 8:33:07 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Charles Martel

“I’m actually glad that Jeb comments on something every few months. It helps keep fresh in our minds just how badly he would’ve been trampled by Hillary in the general election.”

excellent point!


88 posted on 09/13/2018 8:34:07 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: yesthatjallen

Jeb! You think you’d do better or get a special pass from the media if you were in Trump’s shoes? You wouldn’t have. What they’re saying about Trump today is what they’d say about you, too, if you had won.


89 posted on 09/13/2018 8:36:56 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: TheCipher
All true.

Love his passion.

90 posted on 09/13/2018 8:43:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

One thing I’ve always wondered about the Republican Party.

Why does it never yank party affiliation from these idiots?


91 posted on 09/13/2018 8:56:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 5De0% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: yesthatjallen

One word - guacamole.


92 posted on 09/13/2018 9:07:08 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: yesthatjallen

How much cocaine did your family distribute to Puerto Rico, Jebra? It’s ok, though, you’re Hispanic by marriage....


93 posted on 09/13/2018 9:08:49 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yesthatjallen
Nobody gives a damn what Jeb Bush thinks.
94 posted on 09/13/2018 9:11:08 PM PDT by Savage Beast (THE TRUMP REVOLUTION IS LA RÉSISTANCE! VIVE LA RÉSISTANCE! WE SHALL OVERCOME!)
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To: Savage Beast

except his bro’ Barack. He cares.


95 posted on 09/13/2018 9:12:21 PM PDT by Pelham (Yankeefa, cleansing America one statue at a time.)
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To: BradyLS

96 posted on 09/13/2018 9:14:32 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: madison10
Trump destroyed this loser forever with that nickname. So awesome.
97 posted on 09/13/2018 9:17:36 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred

The bush family has been exposed as globalist, anti - freedom losers. Go away.


98 posted on 09/13/2018 9:27:21 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: yesthatjallen

And ? cares what he thinks!

Love the pic of the dog though.


99 posted on 09/13/2018 9:28:37 PM PDT by blondiegoodbadugly
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To: blondiegoodbadugly

Droopy Dog. Separated at birth.


100 posted on 09/13/2018 9:48:59 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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