Discussion: Trump Claims Falsely That Hurricane Maria Death Toll Has Been Inflated

Inflated is not the word here, 6-18 according to Donald changed to 3000 …

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Crisis corpses. Paid by Soros. He was bound to figure it out eventually.

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He lies with such ease.

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JFC. It’s certainly going to be quite a relief to the grieving survivors to know their relatives aren’t really dead. I swear just a few minutes ago I was saying you know it can always get worse and you’re still astonished at how there’s no bottom and he just gets more and more astonishingly awful.

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Most of the time, Trump’s tweets make me embarrassed and wish it was already November. This one really pisses me off.

ETA: You know the game where you end every fortune with “… in bed.” Whenever Trump attacks anyone, I add “… it’s what I would do.”

Further ETA: I finally figured out why this is making me mad. Trump is engaging in a form of Holocaust denial.

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previously

“FEMA is not a huge operation that can do all things,” Santorum continued. "It is a thing that supplements state and local — in this case, the country of Puerto Rico, their response — and of course, that was woefully deficient."

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Ah, yes. Blame the victims.

It’s a tired old GOP trope, isn’t it?

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“How come the lying Democrats and FAKE MEDIA aren’t talking about all the lives I personally saved by throwing those paper towels around? You don’t hear about that!”

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Donnie just wasn’t paying attention. In the immediate aftermath of Maria, public health experts were saying that the death counts were much too low. If memory serves, the death rate from all causes was lower than the normal death rate.

Why? Because the hurricane messed up the reporting system…

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Now would be a good time for Rossello to tell ‘45’ to f-- off, but he still wants to play nice.

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Of course Donnie rejects the truth, because it makes him look bad and it is always all about him him him. Regardless of how many died.

Vote. Make his life even more miserable than it already is.

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Fox News: Unfair on the President, people die all the time hurricane or not. The hurricane probably saved lives, cause gangsters had to take a break on shooting each other in San Juan.

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TruMP raised BILLIONS for Puerto RICO. IF lying libtards and crazy mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto want TO LIE about HOW A++ his response was they’re hater losers. Crazy mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto was HOARDING paper towels until Trump CAME ON and PERSONALLY distributed them to the PEOPLE in NEED. And what’s UP with that NAME? Crazy mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto hoarding PAPER TOWELS and NAMES!

IF PUERTO Ricans are ungrateful, MAYBE THEY ought to move BACK to their own country!!

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Someone else was pushing that same line on CNN last night re: the runway full of spoiled water, but I don’t remember who it was. I had to turn the channel before I rage smashed my TV.

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If I lived along the Carolina Coast right now, a massive shiver of ominous foreshadowing would be running up and down my spine after reading this…

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To its credit, CNN is saying this claim is false and lists the authorities who studied the number of deaths. There are still people letting Trump get away with this–looking at you, AP–but when CNN says he’s making false claims about life and death we may be seeing the media abandon false equivalence in favor of simply saying what the facts are and acknowledging that Trump is a constant outrageous liar.

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Just waiting for him to again bring up that A+ grade.

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Or 2016 election results. Or the crowd size at his coronation. Or…

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