What a jackass.
Trump says Puerto Rico death toll inflated by Democrats: '3000 people did not die'
http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...in-puerto-rico
President Trump on Thursday accused Democrats, without evidence, of inflating the 3,000-person death count from last year's hurricanes in Puerto Rico in order “to make me look bad.”
The stunning accusation is Trump's latest attempt to defend his handling of natural disasters as Hurricane Florence bears down on the Southeastern U.S.
In a series of tweets, Trump disputed an independent report commissioned by Puerto Rico's government that raised the death toll from Hurricane Maria to 2,975.
"3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths," Trump tweeted. "As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000."
The president said the number was manufactured "by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico."
"If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!" he added.
