Republicans do nothing to keep Trump in check except mild comments.
I’m sick of the lies. This was one of the worst.
Of all Trump‘s 4713 lies, this is perhaps the ugliest. The Talmud says that when you save a single life, it is like saving an entire world. Trump just erased 2982 worlds. https://t.co/PiJJZmHWA0
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) September 13, 2018
Paul Ryan is now using Trump's "it's an island!" defence: https://t.co/AaQPjHWL13
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018
.@mattgertz has conclusively demonstrated that the answer to "why is the president tweeting about THAT this morning" is almost always "because he's responding to his television." https://t.co/tB0mTTy86d
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018
Trump has been lying about Puerto Rico from the start to make himself look better. A recap of false things he has said:
1) "It actually touched down as a Category 5. People have never seen anything like that." (It touched down as a Category 4. People have seen Category 5s.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018
Paul Ryan claims that the deaths in Puerto Rico were “no one’s fault.” But most of the deaths were due to the federal government’s failed response to the hurricane. That *is* Trump’s fault. https://t.co/ueu18jTKg7
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 13, 2018
This is grossly misleading. The best estimate is that 3,000 died b/c of Maria. That many if not most of those deaths occurred well after the storm is an indictment of federal/local response. Thousands were without power FOR MONTHS. People died w/o access to basic services. /1 https://t.co/WnbX7qNGeg
— John D. Sutter (@jdsutter) September 13, 2018
In a normal government there would be a commission investigating the Puerto Rico response for months already and hauling administration officials to testify how the president got this information https://t.co/Rju4fCWXU9
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 13, 2018
When the facts are inconvenient, attack the facts. https://t.co/XQBz5bstY3
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 13, 2018
Trump says Dems manufactured the 3,000 death toll from the hurricane in Puerto Rico last year “to make me look bad.” For those who ask if he really believes this, the answer is yes. https://t.co/N3wJPZianj
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 13, 2018
For over a year, Trump has insisted the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria has been getting “great marks.” That’s true: It’s been getting great marks from the president himself, and almost no one else. https://t.co/LfGCPxivy1 pic.twitter.com/KTnUaraZnp
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 13, 2018
Innovations in presidenting https://t.co/3msgTRRNEV
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 13, 2018
I didn't think he could make this worse than his 1st tweet
But he did! https://t.co/OJqCsCEZqP
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 13, 2018
The idea that the huge death toll on Puerto Rico is "really no one's fault" rather than an urgent question for Congress to investigate through oversight is the perfect encapsulation of @SpeakerRyan utter abandonment of oversight role & any effort to hold Trump accountable https://t.co/AyndrkWuxi
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 13, 2018
Lindsey Graham tells us that Trump views every slight as “undercutting his legitimacy,” which is why he can’t admit mistakes like in Puerto Rico. He says that it shouldn’t be hard to acknowledge some mistakes were made.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 13, 2018
Why Trump’s tweets are Puerto Rico are untrue
Just blame everyone else for your lies:
New White House response to Puerto Rico deaths from hurricane and why @realDonaldTrump tweeted on this today stirring new controversy pic.twitter.com/mVCpJKUVkO
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) September 13, 2018
Amartya Sen famously argued that preventable mass-fatality natural disasters don't happen in a well-functioning democracy. Political feedback loops of free press+free elections make this too costly to people in power. The extent of our polarization is frightening in this context. https://t.co/ocNmSxZk0l
— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) September 14, 2018
Refusing to endorse an unsupported conspiracy theory = disloyalty https://t.co/O7DQTsdcWg
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 18, 2018
Sad! 