Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz attacked President Donald Trump as being so “vengeful” he was “willing to let people starve” to death.
When asked about Trump’s tweet on Puerto Rico, Yulin Cruz said, “It still continues to shock me. It still continues to shock the people of Puerto Rico. Just when you think he’s gone the lowest he can go, he still goes lower than that. Let’s fact check the president, because he has become a fake news cartoon, everything that he has always complained about. First of all, Mr. President, 3,000 Puerto Ricans died on your watch. They died because your government was inefficient, ineffective and unable to do its job. Secondly, again, you should fire whomever told you $91 billion dollars were given to Puerto Rico. As you just mentioned, “The Washington Post” says between $11 and our estimate is between $11 and $13 billion dollars.”
She continued, “What kind of man is he that he looks the other way when people need to be fed. He continues to embarrass himself. He continues to embarrass the office of the presidency. Frankly, he doesn’t embody the spirit of humanity and spirit of love and affection that hundreds of American citizens, Latinos and Diaspora have come to Puerto Rico to take care of.”
She added, “He needs political capital, and he just says the things that he says about Puerto Rico. It is shameful. It is embarrassing. It is unbecoming. With all the lies that he is saying he has become the faker in chief.”
She concluded, “Most of all, we need the president to develop a heart. This man is heartless. This man is vengeful. This man racially discriminates against people has are not like him, and he is willing to let people starve, to let people die.”
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