Trump and Puerto Rico ( split from The Slick Sales Pitch of Trump)

[iNow]

Meanwhile in the world not overridden by apologists and propagandists, Trump also illegally tried to prevent Puerto Rico from getting the disaster relief money congress voted to provide them.

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/17/18186818/trump-puerto-rico-hurricane-funds

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A Washington Post article on the resignation of deputy Housing and Urban Development Secretary Pam Patenaude, a housing policy professional who’s been de facto running the department under the vague auspices of Ben Carson, also contains the stunning information that President Trump attempted to illegally cut off federal disaster assistance to the island of Puerto Rico.

We already knew that in October, Trump tweeted — inaccurately — that the Puerto Rican government was planning to use disaster relief money to pay off old debts.

But the new report says Trump went beyond bad tweets and tried to base policy on this misapprehension, urging his team to violate the law and redirect the disaster assistance money to Texas and Florida instead:

 

[CharonY]

2 hours ago, iNow said:

Meanwhile in the world not overridden by apologists and propagandists, Trump also illegally tried to prevent Puerto Rico from getting the disaster relief money congress voted to provide them.

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/17/18186818/trump-puerto-rico-hurricane-funds

 

Holy cow that is bad:

 

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Trump told then-White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and then-Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney that he did not want a single dollar going to Puerto Rico, because he thought the island was misusing the money and taking advantage of the government, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal deliberations. Instead, he wanted more of the money to go to Texas and Florida, the person said.

“POTUS was not consolable about this,” the person said.

Patenaude told White House budget officials during an early December meeting in the Situation Room that the money had been appropriated by Congress and must be sent, according to two people with direct knowledge of the meeting. She assured them that HUD had proper oversight of the funds.

I mean, one should not be surprised about the mindset but  wanting to deprive US citizens from relief after a disaster of that magnitude is still shocking.