Trump’s Disregard of Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Is Putting Lives at Risk

Trump’s Disregard of Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Is Putting Lives at Risk

The President of the United States says he does not believe that Hurricane Maria and its aftermath killed 2,975 people—an estimate generated by researchers at George Washington University and accepted as the rough official death toll by the government of Puerto Rico. On Twitter, President Trump said the death toll was somewhere between six and …