President Trump roiled Democrats and Republicans alike on Thursday with a pair of tweets alleging that Democrats inflated statistics on the number of people killed by hurricanes last year in Puerto Rico.
“3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico,” Trump tweeted. He went on to claim, without evidence, that the number was purposefully exaggerated by Democrats “to make me look as bad as possible.”
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