07-23-2019, 01:26 PM
(07-23-2019, 12:58 PM)Rootilda Wrote:(07-23-2019, 10:09 AM)Maggot Wrote: It looks like Trump was right about Puerto Rico.
Was he? I don't recall him saying much about the governor before this scandal, most of his hate went to Carmen Yulín Cruz because she dared to criticize his "relief efforts" and she hasn't been implicated in any of this. So what exactly was he right about?
Trump tried to highlight that the local Puerto Rican government, loaded as it was with Trump-hating leftists, was the reason the aid wasn't getting through. Trump sent aid swiftly and was angry that it sat on the docks as Puerto Rican leftist pols postured for the press. Remember how San Juan's leftist mayor cried all those crocodile tears against Trump as the press fawned and Democrats claimed her as their own? Yet Trump said the aid was there, and it generally just went to waste, all because Puerto Rican officials — with weird ties to the Clinton machine, by the way — couldn't lay off the corruption for just a few weeks.
Trump tried to remind them just the other day, tweeting this, as the New York Post reported:
Quote:"A lot of bad things are happening in Puerto Rico. The Governor is under siege, the Mayor of San Juan is a despicable and incompetent person who I wouldn't trust under any circumstance, and the United States Congress foolishly gave 92 Billion Dollars for hurricane relief, much of which was squandered away or wasted, never to be seen again," the president wrote on Twitter.
"This is more than twice the amount given to Texas & Florida combined. I know the people of Puerto Rico well, and they are great. But much of their leadership is corrupt, & robbing the U.S. Government blind!"
Now the matter has exploded, with hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rico's beleaguered people protesting in the streets to demand that their corrupt leaders just get the heck out.
The commonwealth's governor, Ricardo Rosselló, who recently got caught for his remarks on a local bulletin board disparaging Puerto Rico's hurricane victims, is being called on to resign.
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