CNN: Trump falsely claims nearly 3,000 Americans in Puerto Rico 'did not die' (2018)

[TomCADem]

I think by the end of next week Trump, Republicans and Fox News will begin making moves to ease quarantine orders, declare that they have successfully stopped the coronavirus, then declare that any reports to the contrary are fake news. Afterall, Trump got away with erasing the deaths of thousands of Americans due to Hurricane Maria. Why not similarly arase perhaps hundreds of thousands of deaths?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/politics/trump-puerto-rico-death-toll/index.html

Washington (CNN)Nearly 3,000 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. President Donald Trump denied this reality as a hurricane barrels toward the Carolinas.

"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. 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," he said in a tweet Thursday morning as Carolinians prepared to be pummeled by Hurricane Florence.

Link to tweet

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After Trump received backlash from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers over this false claim, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley released a statement Thursday that said, "As the President said, every death from Hurricane Maria is a horror. Before, during, and after the two massive hurricanes, the President directed the entire Administration to provide unprecedented support to Puerto Rico."
"President Trump was responding to the liberal media and the San Juan Mayor who sadly, have tried to exploit the devastation by pushing out a constant stream of misinformation and false accusations," the statement read.

[Pantagruel]

1. People dying in NY

will be harder to cover up than in PR. Sad reality but probable.

[TomCADem]

2. But New York Is Going Blue In Any Event, So For Trump...

...what he is banking on is just a few states where he can gas light the populace about how no one died and how he did a great job.

[appalachiablue]

3. Ministry of Untruth, we're moving into Orwell territory fast