Ricardo Rossello, governor of Puerto Rico, pushed back Thursday against President Donald Trump’s false claim that the death toll from Hurricane Maria has been inflated, according to an AP report.
“The victims of Puerto Rico, and the people of Puerto Rico in general, do not deserve to be questioned about their pain,” Rossello said in a Facebook video post. “It’s not a time to fight, to have political noise, to use these things for the benefit of one party or another. It is time to remember all those who lost their lives. It is time to acknowledge their pain and the sacrifice that everyone has made in the name of recovery.”
He added that the process of tallying up the casualty count was “carried out properly.”
Trump claimed without evidence that the death toll, 2,975, was inflated by Democrats to make him look bad.
Sources report that Trump plans to regain the narrative with a dramatic unannounced visit to the Bowling Green Massacre Memorial.
Be careful, Governor, Donnie may start tweeting about how it was all your fault.
Mr. tRump, chastened, will apologize to the governor and the citizens of Puerto Rico.
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d be willing to sell at a good price.
Three people, three thousand, for Trump the number doesn’t matter. For Trump it is all about his perception that he is the victim. Sadly that is all his MAGA base thinks about as well.
Sources further report that the President may also visit The River of Blood on his tour of historic sites that don’t exist.