Trump claims Maria death toll rose ‘like magic’

Trump will travel to the region early to middle of next week and the trip will not disrupt any rescue or recovery efforts, according to Sanders. “It wasn’t because this president doesn’t care about Puerto Rico”.

In the months leading up to Maria’s approach, FEMA had 10,683 people on hand, about 86 per cent of the agency’s target, the report found. On Oct. 29, he died of a heart attack. “When’s the last time you watched porn?”

President Trump’s tweet this week, asserting that Democrats highlighted the death toll of almost 3,000 to make him look bad, stunned lawmakers – including Republicans.

She said she visited Puerto Rico herself a few months ago and people were dying all around from the lack of resources.

“‘3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico”.

“Most physicians receive no formal training in death certificate completion, in particular in a disaster”, it states.

Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora has blasted President Donald Trump for disputing the Hurricane Maria death toll, calling his actions “disrespectful”. One year after the devastating storm, a precise figure is yet to be declared.

“We are scientists. We are public health people”.

“We left this analysis to the scientists and experts, recognising that there would be many challenges, because we wanted to have a powerful and independent voice to minimise the uncertainty”, he said in a video on Facebook. “Ron is focused on continuing to help our Puerto Rican neighbors recover and create opportunities for those who have moved to Florida [to] succeed”. “How is the hurricane now treated so differently, but the hurricane in Puerto Rico wasn’t?” said Santos-Vasquez.

The GWU study concluded the initial death toll only included those killed directly by hurricanes Maria and Irma – either by drowning, flying debris or building collapse. “And I came in and there was a crowd of a lot of people”.

Trump reignited the controversy around the US government’s management of the disaster when he said Tuesday it was an “incredible, unsung success”.

The White House defended the president on Thursday.

Trump @realDonaldTrump “When Trump visited the island territory last October, OFFICIALS told him in a briefing 16 PEOPLE had died from Maria”.

Gidley cited studies that attributed fewer than 3,000 deaths on the island to Maria.

Ottmar Chávez, the administrator of General Services in Puerto Rico (ASG), told HuffPost in a news release that it requested 20,000 pallets of water bottles in May from FEMA, which had reported it had a surplus of emergency supplies.

In a Tuesday press update on Florence, he called his administration’s response to Maria an “unsung success”, while also falsely claiming Puerto Rico “had no electricity essentially before the storm”.