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Will he tweet something like this: ‘6000 people did not die when terrorists attacked the World Trade Centre. When I left lower Manhattan AFTER the attacks, https://www.canadagoosejacketoutlett.com they had 2,977 deaths. As time went by, it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really big numbers. This was done by Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them to the list. Bad politics. I love New York!’

No, of course he wouldn’t.

Because being a New Yorker, Trump would never dare to say such an unbelievably inappropriate and offensive thing, knowing the hurt and distress it would cause to all those who lost loved ones canada goose outlet woodbury in or since the attacks.

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He was in the city that day.

He claims to have personally known numerous people who died on 9/11, and families whose lives were torn apart by it.

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Whenever I’ve spoken to him about it, the anger he’s expressed has always felt very strong and very genuine.

So no, there’s not a cat in hell’s chance of President Trump saying anything now to question a single death connected to 9/11, however many years later it may occur.

If he did, he’d be finished.

President Donald Trump tosses paper towels into a crowd at Calvary Chapel in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico in October following the hurricanes

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In a series of shocking tweets, he emphatically denied that nearly 3,000 people died, contradicting new official numbers compiled in a study by the nonpartisan George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.

Trump provided no evidence for his justification in refuting these numbers, and neither has the White House done so since he said it.

They can’t, because there isn’t any.

uk canada goose outlet Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossells, who commissioned the death toll study, said: ‘There is no reason to doubt the validity of these studies, no reason to expect even though canada goose outlet mississauga it’s an estimate that it’s not far away from what the accurate toll should be. Neither the victims nor the people of Puerto Rico deserve to have their pain questioned.’ uk canada goose outlet

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Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said: ‘Casualties don’t make a person look bad so I have canada goose outlet store new york no reason to dispute those numbers. It was devastating, a horrible storm. I toured the entire island. It’s an isolated island that lost its infrastructure and power for a long time. You couldn’t get to people for a long time. I have no reason to dispute those numbers, those are just the facts of what happened.’

Exactly. They’re just the facts of what happened.

The worst of many terrible things about Trump’s response to the new Puerto Rico death toll is that it came right when his whole focus should be on the latest hurricane, Florence, as it barrelled into the Carolinas.

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The fact he’s wasting valuable time engaging in pathetically petty point scoring over a previous hurricane is ridiculous enough.

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After all, Trump has consistently denied any fault for his administration in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and instead sought praise for his handling of the disaster saying this week that it was ‘an incredible, unsung success.’

He boasted: ‘I think Puerto Rico was incredibly successful. It was one of the best jobs that’s ever been done with respect to what this is all about.’

But nobody wants to hear this kind of self aggrandising bullsht from a President about a natural disaster that killed so many Americans canada goose outlet parka.