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By Christopher Condon and Margaret Talev
October 2, 2017, 4:00 AM EDT
... Trump suggested islanders struggling without basic services were lazy, and that the mayor of its largest city was a poor leader and a politically-motivated "ingrate."
... the president may have done lasting damage .. to the Republican brand among Latino voters ...
People have been told to register via internet for FEMA relief, when we dont have any internet or very little internet even in the San Juan metropolitan area, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said on ABCs This Week on Sunday.
Trumps official schedule showed an hour of briefings about Puerto Rico on Saturday and none on Sunday ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-02/trump-s-puerto-rico-spat-risks-lasting-damage-to-gop-standing
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)MontanaMama
(23,344 posts)of our government and nothing is their fault, ever. Beyond frustrating.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)for 1/10 of 1% of all the horrible things he has done is just beyond any normal comprehension. Are our standards as a country really so low that we accept all his craziness as 'normal'?? I give up.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)unblock
(52,352 posts)ever fail merely gets the 65% of the country that opposes him more outraged.
the 35% is unlikely to change, but the intensity of the 65% does.
hopefully this translates to massive democratic turnout in 2018 and 2020.
we'll need it to overcome the propaganda and voter suppression and other dirty tricks.
3catwoman3
(24,055 posts)...to the Republican brand."
Let us hope so.