Trump denies 3,000 Puerto Ricans died from hurricanes; Claims Dems made it up

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(09-13-2018, 11:58 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: A reasoned and rational response that will be completely ignored by some.   

You can't say this 25 minutes later as if he is being ignored.

Quote:Let's say every death attributed to the hurricane was caused directly by it.  How many of those deaths was caused by an inadequate US response?  How many of those were caused by an inadequate response from the local governments?  How many were reasonably unavoidable?  Without that kind of data the casualty numbers tell us absolutely nothing about how adequate the Trump administrations response was or were blame for avoidable deaths lies. 

There's a difference between saying "3000 deaths occurred as a result of the hurricanes" and "3000 deaths occurred as a result of the federal response to the hurricanes". In this situation, Trump is explicitly denying the 3000 figure in general and pushing 6-18 with some wiggle room for a few more. I'm not going to blame him and I didn't (and I know I'm not necessarily the subject of your response), I just noted the denial of the deaths. This shouldn't be an issue of "I have to deny this independent figure because I think it makes me look bad". 

But we can't get into the breakdown of what caused each death if we are arguing over how many there even were because we're afraid of how bad that'll make us look.