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By: Real America News Updated 06 Oct 2022, 7: 30 am EDT
Donald Trump
showed little empathy with Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and even called the island a place “absolutely without any hope,” as New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed in her book “Confidence Man.”
The reporter also revealed that the former president saw the island as “a property in distress” after the hurricane devastated it and went so far as to suggest that the island was not part of the United States.
To get the former president to commit to providing aid to Puerto Rico, whose residents were without power and water for months, his team learned to frame him on a “personal level” to get him to show interest, Haberman wrote. Trump told his top advisers that he did not want “a single dollar” to go to hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, as reported by The Washington Post in 2019.
After refusing to send aid, Trump visited Puerto Rico to assess the damage left by the hurricane and was widely criticized because in one of his stops he threw paper towels at the crowd while telling them that “the have a good time” and that it was a “good crowd”. Puerto Rico as an “incredible and anonymous success”, as well as “One of the best works that have been done”.
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