The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has “come back a long way,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday morning of the official he strongly criticized as he departed the White House en route to the hurricane-ravaged island.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz was outspoken last week in her pleas for more support from the federal government, criticizing the rosy recovery picture painted by acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke and appealing directly to the president in an interview on CNN.
While she expressed gratitude for Trump’s help and did not attack him directly, her words were enough to prompt the president into a Twitter spree in which he said the mayor had shown “such poor leadership ability.” At the outset of his Tuesday morning Trip to the island, Trump suggested Cruz had begun to come around.
“Well, I think she's come back a long way. And you know, I think it's now acknowledged what a great job we've done and people are looking at that,” the president told reporters before boarding Marine One on the White House’s south lawn. “whether it's her or anybody else, they're all starting to say it. I appreciate very much the governor and his comments. He has said we have done an incredible job and that's the truth.”
Trump did not refer to any specific comments from Cruz that indicated she had “come back” from her criticism of the federal response.
As the article states there is no evidence that Cruz has changed her mind about the US response to the devastation in Puerto Rico.
In fact she tweeted this out just today.
Does not sound as if she came back from anywhere to me.The thruth is there for everyone to see: our elderly are suffering. https://t.co/JP8WUWubsW— Carmen Yulín Cruz (@CarmenYulinCruz) October 3, 2017
As for his suggestion that "it's now acknowledged what a great job we've done."
Nope.
Courtesy of CNN:
Oxfam, a global organization working to end poverty, is criticizing the United States government's response to the crisis in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
The group specifically criticized President Donald Trump's administration.
"Oxfam has monitored the response in Puerto Rico closely, and we are outraged at the slow and inadequate response the US government has mounted in Puerto Rico," Oxfam America President Abby Maxman said in a statement. "Clean water, food, fuel, electricity, and health care are in desperately short supply and quickly dwindling, and we're hearing excuses and criticism from the administration instead of a cohesive and compassionate response."
The group rarely criticizes government strategies in crises affecting wealthy nations such as the US.
"The US has more than enough resources to mobilize an emergency response but has failed to do so in a swift and robust manner," Maxman said.
Yeah, that sounds like the opposite of what Trump is saying.
It's almost like he was pushing, what's that called again, oh yeah, fake news.
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