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Mueller report. OP/ED
RE: Mueller report. OP/ED
(May 9, 2019 at 3:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
Quote:What has trump lied about? what has trump got wrong?...Again share with me SOMETHING factual and I will help you see (with documentation) a fake news spin.

Ok, spin this:

From Trump, 2 April of this year:
Quote:Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....

Politifact:

Quote:Puerto Rico has not received $91 billion...The federal government’s recovery website shows $40.7 billion has been allocated (Congress appropriated the spending) through December 2018. Of that, $19.4 billion has been obligated (the government has promised to spend the money) and of that $11.2 billion has been spent...A senior administration official told PolitiFact that Trump arrived at the $91 billion figure by combining the roughly $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs of $50 billion. (The Washington Post’s Fact Checker wrote that the $50 billion was a high end estimate of what would need to be committed under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.)

That means the $50 billion is speculative, said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.

So, Puerto Rico did not 'get' $91 billion.  They've (so far) gotten $11.2 billion. The only additional monies your Congress has committed to spending are a further $8.2 billion. 

 He's also wrong when he claimed that the spending on Puerto Rico is a record.  So far, Congress has spent (not merely allocated or promised) $120 billion on Katrina.

Have fun with that.

Boru
Now ironically enough watch him use a Pro Trump source to spin this in his favor
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: Mueller report. OP/ED
(May 9, 2019 at 4:35 pm)Amarok Wrote:
(May 9, 2019 at 3:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Ok, spin this:

From Trump, 2 April of this year:

Politifact:


So, Puerto Rico did not 'get' $91 billion.  They've (so far) gotten $11.2 billion. The only additional monies your Congress has committed to spending are a further $8.2 billion. 

 He's also wrong when he claimed that the spending on Puerto Rico is a record.  So far, Congress has spent (not merely allocated or promised) $120 billion on Katrina.

Have fun with that.

Boru
Now ironically enough watch him use a Pro Trump source to spin this in his favor

If his doing so can prove that $11.2 billion is more than $120 billion, I will happily concede the argument.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Mueller report. OP/ED
Mueller says screw it, joins NCIS.


I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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