Fact-checking tweets about Puerto Rico

[struggle4progress]

By Jon Greenberg on Sunday, October 1st, 2017 at 6:32 p.m.

... "Fake News CNN and NBC are going out of their way to disparage our great First Responders as a way to "get Trump." Not fair to FR or effort!."

Trump sent this tweet Sept. 30. We asked the White House what stories the president had in mind. They had no comment ...

"10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job" ...

... FEMA .. told us .. there are 10,100 federal workers on Puerto Rico, but could not provide a breakdown by agency.

Our searches found .. the number might be close, although you need to count soldiers as federal workers, and it’s not clear .. all .. have actually arrived ...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/oct/01/fact-checking-donald-trumps-tweets-about-puerto-ri/

[Thomas Hurt]

1. disparaging FEMA first responders....

that funny coming from Trump who ascribes to the Alex Jones school of conspiracy.........FEMA camps for conservatives, the Deep State, etc.

[murielm99]

2. So now he is going to make it about first responders?

The asshole knows that is not true. They are being critical of his lack of effort, at least to some extent. This is more of his deflect and divide crap.

He knows that the football players are not disrespecting the flag, too. He made it about the flag. He knows perfectly well they are protesting the shootings of unarmed black men, and the way black people are treated.