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Jeb Bush weighs in on Trump’s Puerto Rico tweets: ‘Incredibly disheartening’
The Hill ^ | 09/13/18 | Megan Keller

Posted on 09/13/2018 6:19:12 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Jeb Bush criticized President Trump's controversial tweets about the death toll in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

"Incredibly disheartening comments from our President," Bush tweeted Thursday.

Trump beat the former Florida governor for the Republican nomination for president in 2016.

Trump sparked controversy earlier Thursday when he tweeted that the estimated 3,000 death toll was intentionally inflated by Democrats.

The 3,000 approximation comes from a George Washington University study that tried to total how many "excess deaths" occurred because of Hurricane Maria and would not have happened in the absence of the cyclone.

Those involved with the study have emphasized that the 3,00 estimate(!) is not a conclusive number and further work should be done.

"Among all the deaths that occurred, which of them were related to Maria, which of them would not have occurred if it hadn't been for the storm? We're not able to say that now," the dean of GW's Milken Institute School of Public Health, Lynn Goldman, told CNN late last month.

The president has not brought forward any evidence for his claim Democrats falsified the number.

Trump has been roundly criticized for his tweets on the left and the right, even among some of his most staunch defenders.

Still, the White House defended the president's statements Thursday.

"President Trump was responding to the liberal media and the San Juan Mayor who sadly have tried to exploit the devastation by pushing out a constant stream of misinformation and false accusations," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Thursday to CNN.


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To: yesthatjallen

Attaboy Bushies. Stone cold silence from you bastards during eight years of someone even worse than W.


41 posted on 09/13/2018 6:34:56 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Oh really? I guess even Droopy has his limits before whipping out a six pack of Whoop-A**.


42 posted on 09/13/2018 6:35:28 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Disheartening”? Hell, low energy Jeb, you’ve ALWAYS LACKED “heart”.

Get ye back to your state of irrelevance!


43 posted on 09/13/2018 6:37:42 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
But the physical resemblance is remarkable.

It's almost like separated at birth.

44 posted on 09/13/2018 6:37:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
Still, the White House defended the president's statements Thursday.

AS they should. You have the RATs lying about it and the presstitutes repeating those lies.

No one else speaks up for Trump.

45 posted on 09/13/2018 6:37:45 PM PDT by gogeo (No justice, no peace.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yeb, we did not ask you to chime in. Now go back and sit in the corner.


46 posted on 09/13/2018 6:41:33 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: yesthatjallen

47 posted on 09/13/2018 6:43:42 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: yesthatjallen
I was going to say Something...but you said it Best!
Jeb Is never or never will be but a complete doofus that LOST and YUGELY to the man the Bush Clan Hate … President Donald J. Trump! Love IT! #MAGA! Drain The SWAMP!
Clintons and Bush Legacy is OVER!
48 posted on 09/13/2018 6:45:16 PM PDT by djstex ((The REAL News of The Day ... Trump is Our President EVERYDAY!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Trump beat the former Florida governor for the Republican nomination for president in 2016.

Jeb! ran? Really? Who knew? Did anyone clap?

49 posted on 09/13/2018 6:45:21 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
😂😂😂
50 posted on 09/13/2018 6:46:27 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: yesthatjallen

Jen, just go away


51 posted on 09/13/2018 6:46:32 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The truth is always disheartening to those who prefer the lie.


52 posted on 09/13/2018 6:47:24 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: boycott

The problem is that he was too short and needed to stand on tippie toes to be seen.


53 posted on 09/13/2018 6:47:25 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: JoSixChip
They did report comments from Paul Ryan:

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that he has "no reason" to dispute the finding that nearly 3,000 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria, despite President Trump doing so earlier in the day.

“Casualties don’t make a person look bad,” Ryan told reporters at a press conference, according to Reuters. “I have no reason to dispute these numbers.”

54 posted on 09/13/2018 6:48:31 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

“Mr. Pocket Turtle”. More like “Mr. Pocket Pool”. Yick!


55 posted on 09/13/2018 6:48:40 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Williams
And what responsibilities do the Puerto Ricans bear? Are they too stupid to realize that they live on the mainline for hurricanes and tropical storms? If they can't plan and prepare, it's not my problem. The storm that hit them was a run of the mill hurricane. It wasn't some super-duper sharknado hurricane.
 
56 posted on 09/13/2018 6:50:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

57 posted on 09/13/2018 6:52:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Socialists in charge in PR used the hurricane as a political hammer and let their own people do without food and water and other needed supplies just to try to make President Trump look bad. The supplies were there, the PR authorities would not hand them out.

President Trump has every right to set the story straight. People here need to know the truth, people in Puerto Rico need to know the truth—everyone needs to know the truth.

Why does Jeb think the truth should not be told about what happened?


58 posted on 09/13/2018 6:53:37 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: pepsi_junkie
#37: "how sad you'd be if you married a mexican dwarf"

He only married the dwarf so he wouldn't have to stand on his tippy toes during family photo ops.
 

59 posted on 09/13/2018 6:55:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Jeb Bush the Mexican ?


60 posted on 09/13/2018 6:56:35 PM PDT by butlerweave
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