Trump 'Very Bitter and Sensitive' About Puerto Rico, and Dems Say His Team Is Stonewalling...

[DonViejo]

Trump ‘Very Bitter and Sensitive’ About Puerto Rico, and Dems Say His Team Is Stonewalling Their Investigation

As the island faces a new round of crises, the president has tripled down on blaming others—and Democratic lawmakers investigating the hurricane response say they’re being blocked.

Sam Brodey, Asawin Suebsaeng
04.01.19 5:11 AM ET

It was arguably the biggest scandal and outrage of Donald Trump’s young, already scandal-ridden presidency.

There was a large American body count piling up, along with mounting reports and questions about the administration’s mismanagement of the relief efforts, with few answers forthcoming. With the bodies barely cold, the president instead launched sustained, petty public-relations warfare against politicians who he felt had crossed him and, at times, appeared to go to war with the victims of the storms.

It was “Trump’s Katrina,” and then some.

Now, a year and a half after hurricanes Irma and María ravaged Puerto Rico, the island is grappling with a whole new round of crises, Trump has been telling his GOP allies that Puerto Rico is receiving too much assistance from the federal government, and lawmakers leading an investigation into what happened after the storms are being stalled.

Some Democratic lawmakers are all but accusing the Trump administration of stonewalling them in their inquiries.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on government operations, told The Daily Beast he still hasn’t seen key documents from the administration detailing its response to the hurricanes. He said the committee should be prepared to use its subpoena power to obtain those documents—and, if necessary, to hold officials in contempt of Congress if they don’t comply.

“This is not an academic exercise,” said Connolly. “People lost their lives.”

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[vlyons]

1. Complete and total incompetence

and probably more than a little corruption

[NewJeffCT]

4. If it's related to Trump

it's probably a staggering amount of corruption

[NewJeffCT]

2. If they're stonewalling

send the subpoenas

[bluestarone]

3. The money the pentagon swapped for the wall should

Have gone to Puerto Rico BEFORE giving it to tRUMPS wall!

[ScratchCat]

5. Oh, we know "what happened"

"What happened" is that a Trump donor who did not own a utility business prior to the Hurricane created one on paper and was awarded the contract even though the company had no experience in what it was to be doing Puerto Rico.

[Totally Tunsie]

6. What the hell does HE have to be 'Very Bitter and Sensitive' about?

He's the one who created and perpetuated the deplorable aid situation there. What did PR ever do to him?

[gratuitous]

8. You're trying to tie Trump's words and actions directly to Trump!

How is that even fair? Arrest my case!

Bob Boudelang
Angry American Patriot

[Volaris]

9. He's bitter and sensitive about the fact that he's gonna get caught being a rascist dick

THATS what he's upset about ..

[loyalsister]

10. It's the unique US brand of narcissism

It's how many people in the US see themselves. Going to Puerto Rico, and giving the standard compassion performance that is historically just what presidents do was so much beneath him that he should be rewarded. Just as he thought he should be given credit for generously remodeling some properties to suit ADA standards.
It should be no surprise that this exists in a country that rewards charitable giving with tax credits. And, argues that other forms of decency (ie not calling people demeaning names) are optional personal sacrifices rather than a matter of ordinary respect.

[UTUSN]

7. Poor baby SHITLER ought to ask Puerto Ricans how they feel!