-->
Home › News › Puerto Rico Governor: Trump and His Administration Have Responded Quickly to the Hurricane Crisis

Puerto Rico Governor: Trump and His Administration Have Responded Quickly to the Hurricane Crisis

- September 25, 2017
National Guard Soldiers arrive at Barrio Obrero in Santurce to distribute water and food among those affected by the passage of Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. Gov. Ricardo Rossello said "This is a major disaster." "We've had extensive damage. This is going to take some time." (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

National Guard Soldiers arrive at Barrio Obrero in Santurce to distribute water and food among those affected by the passage of Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. Gov. Ricardo Rossello said “This is a major disaster.” “We’ve had extensive damage. This is going to take some time.” (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

There has been a lot of profoundly stupid stuff floating around about the Administration’s response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island. It is much along these line:

The implication here is that unless Trump is tweeting about it, it isn’t happening. This is the typical lazy thinking that you find in the media, who find it much easier writing stories from Twitter than actually talking to people, and it carries the subtext, though they are afraid to say it, that Trump and his whole administration is racist and perfectly willing to let Puerto Ricans die.

The actual facts are quite different. My colleague, Teri Christoph, wrote a definitive account of what is being done in Puerto Rico, and she did it by interviewing people at FEMA and Doug Domenech, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs (and father of RedState co-founder Ben Domenech).

This is a infographic of what is being done:

maria-rescue-efforts

What is slowing things down right now is that aircraft landings/take-offs are restricted because there is no power to the air traffic control system and the ports are not safe because of debris and wrecked ships.

Tonight, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló was on PBS NewsHour and was asked specifically about federal assistance;

The post Puerto Rico Governor: Trump and His Administration Have Responded Quickly to the Hurricane Crisis appeared first on RedState.

 

Start typing and press Enter to search