Puerto Rican Mayor Attacked by Pro-Trump Fake News Army
Source: Newsweek
BY CHRIS RIOTTA ON 10/3/17 AT 3:45 PM
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who criticized President Donald Trump's slow recovery efforts for the devastated island of Puerto Rico, is now facing a wave of backlash from Americas far-right Twitter trolls and fake news writers.
The mayor's name was plastered all over the web by the time the president walked off Air Force One on Tuesday, as bots and trolls shared misleading news reports claiming she had funneled government money to support a violent protest a year before the storm.
Link to tweet
"Carmen Yulin Cruz, the Trump-bashing, terrorist-supporting Mayor of San Juan, diverted $20,000 worth of government money to fund a violent protest against the establishment of a Federal Fiscal Board," one site claimed under the headline "BUSTED: Anti-Trump Mayor Of San Juan Spent $20,000 In Public Funds To Bankroll Violent Protest."
"In September of 2016, Cruz admitted that she and the San Juan Peoples Assembly had financed the violent protest to the tune of $20,000," the article reads.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-fake-news-army-puerto-rico-mayor-carmen-yulin-cruz-676923
JDC
(10,081 posts)dhill926
(16,234 posts)How the fuck do these assholes get away with it. Does libel or something come into play? Fuck these vermin to the depths of hell.
riversedge
(69,707 posts)supported Hillary during the primary and general.
Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)Trump has accused Yulín Cruz of taking a political angle to criticize his administration's relief efforts, and Yulín Cruz said she was able to speak with the President briefly when he shook her hand at Tuesday's event.
"I told him, 'Mr. President this is about saving lives. It's not about politics,'" Yulín Cruz said. "That's all the interaction that mayors had with (Trump).
When Trumps 's fiendish friend Chris Christie was out of state campaigning for the republican nomination and was confronted about the flooding back in New Jersey ,Christie said all that can be done is being done, what do you expect me to do ,get out there with a mop and bucket ?
Here is trump saying,here ya go, clean up after yerselves.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Great photo of Christie!
(Thanks, I needed a laugh today)
Let them talk, we as democrats must unite..... JESUS CHRIST.... if this party cannot unite and win in 2018 after all the stupid shit Fuckump does or has done this year, then sorry but FUCK US..... WE DON'T DESERVE TO WIN......prove me wrong democrats, prove me wrong.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)I really am beginning to hate twitter and how it has become corrupted and infiltrated by Russian bots. Why won't twitter do something about it?