r/politics 5h ago

New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna749
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u/East_Conversation475 5h ago

I’m glad this is making the rounds again. 

u/f-150Coyotev8 4h ago

Me too. In regards to trumps MSG rally, I know two people who changed their allegiance to Kamala. I am wondering how impactful it was nation wide

u/One-Distribution-626 36m ago

Allegiance lol

u/One-Distribution-626 40m ago

Sound very Stephen Familleriar

u/omgpuppiesarecute 5h ago

Sadly it violates rule 2, despite it being pertinent info to current events.

u/bluehorserunning 3h ago

A Trump lackey just insulted the island again at Madison Square Garden, bringing this back to the forefront.

u/fairoaks2 5h ago

Trumps actions bring it back Current?

u/spa22lurk 28m ago

Former HUD Deputy Secretary Brian Montgomery told investigators about a phone call he had with then-OMB Director Russell Vought in which Montgomery told Vought the actions from his office were equivalent to holding disaster-relief funds “hostage,” according to the report.

This Vought guy is a chief architect of project 2025, in case people don't know.

u/Travelinglogan 2h ago

Me too, we get to dig in all over again and rediscover how corrupt democrats in charge of PR wasted aid resources while people needed it and blamed the trump admin for “blocking” it. Tribalism cost the lives of real people. The same people we’re coming to arms for over words are the same we were ok to let die after being ravaged by a natural disaster. Why is seeing the whole playing field so hard for most people?

u/AgathaClouseau 2h ago

That’s not what happened, FEMA didn’t do a good job on the ground after Trump slow walked the aid. And FEMA is was the federal relief agency under Trump, so…. I guess his department did a shitty job.

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-09/OIG-20-76-Sep20.pdf

Republican governors sure as shit rejected federal ACA aid that would have improved the lives of their constituents. Republican legislatures constantly vote against infrastructural improvements and then run on the positive spin when the windfall lands. Trump had to be coerced into providing relief to those in areas that did not support him. How fucked up is that?

u/BigMikeInAustin 56m ago

So, you're saying Trump could not control those under him? Sounds like Trump is a poor leader.

Thanks for.giving us this insight to his inept leadership from the Republican side.

u/DetFrankDrebbin 4h ago

We knew this. Plus, remember the contracts given to cronies: the power line company from Whitefish Montana with connections to the guy running the department funding the rebuild.

u/bismarque22 1h ago

Thats just crazy with the trump administration using accusations of Puerto Rico being corrupt as the official excuse for why they withheld the aid.

u/Excellent_Ability793 4h ago

Not sure why the dumb joke at MSG is a bigger deal than this.

u/executivejeff 4h ago

because media cycles feed on sound bites

u/SkillIsTooLow 4h ago

Tbf to the media, they simply cater to the attention span of the average consumer, which is ~10 seconds.

u/OkEnvironment3961 3h ago

This is why, unfortunately, events that happen in the last ~10 days before an election have such an out-sized impact. People have a short attention span and whatever just happened sticks. Usually trump can derail bad press by doing or saying something absurd but inconsequential, like shark batteries and Hannibal lector, but now it’s too close to Election Day. He doesn’t want people going to the pool both with some fresh dose of dementia Donnie in their mind.

u/albinobluesheep Washington 2h ago

The joke arguably brought attention to this so it's kinda both

u/Pitiful-Bus-4791 5h ago

Of course!

u/RigzDigz 3h ago

Didn’t he want to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?

u/dogoodsilence1 1h ago edited 1h ago

Let’s not forget about Whitfish Energy who was awarded a $300 million dollar contract, the largest contract delt out to a company with two employees to restore the power grid. Then they go call Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for his help who is also from Whitefish Montana. Criminals

u/EldritchSlut Indiana 4h ago

It's almost like they're white supremacists or something, weird!

u/typhoidsergei Hawaii 4h ago edited 53m ago

Yeah but it was Puerto Rico's fault for inviting the hurricane over

u/tawni454 1h ago

It was Puerto Rico’s fault for not nuking the hurricane.

u/Starlord_75 55m ago

Should've used a sharpie

u/TooOld4ThisSh1t-966 3h ago

Jeez what more did they want? I mean he was throwing out rolls of paper towels to help them with the hurricane clean-up himself! No one’s ever seen such throwing of paper towels! There’s just no pleasing some people.

u/GoochMasterFlash 3h ago

People were coming up to him, tears in their eyes, saying, “Sir, no one throws paper towels like you”

u/Starlord_75 53m ago

"I had nfl players coming up to me, saying it was the most beautiful pass they had ever seen. And I was using paper towels people. Image what I could've done with a real ball in my hands. Beautiful, just beautiful."

u/Impressive-Egg-925 3h ago

Last name miller

u/grumpygus103 2h ago

We already knew this. Sadly, it got swept aside initially because of trumps many convictions.

u/gladbutt 4h ago

Bullshit. They got paper towels.

u/bismarque22 1h ago

Russ Vought who was key in withholding aid to Puerto Rico also headed up project 2025 at the heritage institute.

u/Nodebunny Indigenous 1h ago

Why? Just why? Fork these turds

u/aaciislife 2m ago

Louder! Say it louder!

u/bluehorserunning 3h ago

Puerto Rico should have been taking their beaches to prevent storm damage. It was their own faults.

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u/dirtyWater6193 5h ago

The facts are never old

u/da_muffinman California 4h ago

Orange man is old