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Trump leans on shaky numbers to shape reality
By JONATHAN LEMIRE WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Pukey2
This man-child lies without thinking things through.
Big numbers. Small numbers. Imaginary people (you know, all those parents who wanted Trump to bring back their sons' remains from North Korea - yeap, lots and lots of people well over 100 years old in USA).
Serrano
"On Thursday, Trump's factually challenged tweeting took a new grim turn. He claimed the death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year was inflated — "3,000 people did not die," he tweeted"
The truth is - get ready, liberals - 64 people died as a direct result of Hurricane Maria. Look it up. Add in all the people who died over the following 5 months mainly due to Democratic Puerto Rican government incompetence and ya got 2,975. Oh my.
mukashiyokatta
The very same "stats and numbers" which, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump said were "fake" and "lies."
Netgrump
Most Trumpists, never been great on math and stats, have an interesting way on dealing with the facts. 64 people died 'as a direct result' and those who died in the following 5 months died [ and ya got 2975] 'mainly due to Democratic incompetence' ..
The article above mentions a gov figure of 1400 deaths during the aftermath. A fact is that these figures are still uncertain.
But the wounded dying afterwards 'due to party political incompetence' is interesting..
Is the poster implying that with a 'competent' Republican gov with members appointed by the Leader himself would have given a way lower number of casualties?