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January 20, 2020

The left's bid to smear Trump over Puerto Rico aid now looks skeezier than ever

By Monica Showalter

The left has got a lot to answer for for its smear campaign against President Trump, who warned of corruption in Puerto Rico aid in the wake of 2017's Hurricane Maria, and then responsibly refused to hand over billions to thieves.  Democrats and their media allies attempted to "Katrina" Trump on the delivery of aid, painting him as a racist meanie, all in the interest of creating a "narrative," that would politically profit themselves off Puerto Ricans' suffering, even the aid that did get to Puerto Rico left Puerto Ricans with nothing. 

Here's what was going on all along:

So Trump was right after all!!!
As usual.

Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fires emergency director after aid is found sitting in warehouse. >https://t.co/bek950y4Ctp>— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr)

The discovery comes on the heels of an earthquake in which Puerto Rico's locals, desperate to get help yet again, broke into a warehouse full of undelivered hurricane supplies they should have gotten years ago and didn't.  Trump signed a $92-billion aid package; delivered at least $15 billion, which goes a long way in Puerto Rico; and then demanded some accountability in order to release the rest of it.  Most Americans, after all, have no problem shelling out for Puerto Rico provided the money goes to what it's intended to go to.  Private profit from leftist cronies stealing the aid isn't that.  A leftist official has since been fired, signaling incompetence and mismanagement, if not corruption.  Those would be from the same leftist commonwealth officials who stood there in front of the TV cameras and denounced Trump as stingy and racist, while lefties on the mainland clapped. 

It should have been obvious enough, back in July, when locals demanded (and got) the resignation of their Clinton-linked governor who let the aid sit in warehouses, whom I wrote about here.

Trump sent aid swiftly and was angry that it sat on the docks as Puerto Rican leftist pols postured for the press.  Remember how San Juan's leftist mayor cried all those crocodile tears against Trump as the press fawned and Democrats claimed her as their own?  Yet Trump said the aid was there, and it generally just went to waste, all because Puerto Rican officials — with weird ties to the Clinton machine, by the way — couldn't lay off the corruption for just a few weeks.

And yet the corruption just keeps rolling out and out, as this latest incident demonstrates.

What, pray tell, would be the purpose of keeping aid from hungry, thirsty, and unroofed people in hideous weather with shambles all around, other than to maybe sneakily sell it in some black-market deal and walk off with the money?  The warehouse break-in and the firing of the official in charge of aid signal that a racket was going on...and now it's there for all to see, just as Trump said it would be.

Yet the press was curiously incurious.

Look at how bad the reporting was back in 2017.  This 2017 Reuters report began with a dishonest characterization of President Trump's refusal to hand billions over to thieves:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A new package of U.S. disaster assistance sailed through the House of Representatives on Thursday, despite President Donald Trump expressing impatience with having to devote federal resources for hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico's recovery.

The report on the Reuters site is still juxtaposed against a picture of a huge fallen tree, rather than a warehouse full of undelivered aid, falsely claiming Trump was somehow impatient with having to "devote" aid to hurricane recovery.  That's just a hint of how dishonest it all was.

Now it's more obvious than ever that Trump was against funding corruption on a Hugo Chávez scale by handing out crony largesse to leftists in their accustomed style.  It's not only Hugo Chávez stuff; it's also Democrat stuff, so redolent of House Biden and other Democrat pocket-lining ventures.

Trump was right all along about the thievery, and he said so. 

Reuters was incurious about that, though, because it had a "narrative" to deliver.  As a result, it got scooped by a mob.

The left has got a lot to answer for for its smear campaign against President Trump, who warned of corruption in Puerto Rico aid in the wake of 2017's Hurricane Maria, and then responsibly refused to hand over billions to thieves.  Democrats and their media allies attempted to "Katrina" Trump on the delivery of aid, painting him as a racist meanie, all in the interest of creating a "narrative," that would politically profit themselves off Puerto Ricans' suffering, even the aid that did get to Puerto Rico left Puerto Ricans with nothing. 

Here's what was going on all along:

So Trump was right after all!!!
As usual.

Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fires emergency director after aid is found sitting in warehouse. >https://t.co/bek950y4Ctp>— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr)

The discovery comes on the heels of an earthquake in which Puerto Rico's locals, desperate to get help yet again, broke into a warehouse full of undelivered hurricane supplies they should have gotten years ago and didn't.  Trump signed a $92-billion aid package; delivered at least $15 billion, which goes a long way in Puerto Rico; and then demanded some accountability in order to release the rest of it.  Most Americans, after all, have no problem shelling out for Puerto Rico provided the money goes to what it's intended to go to.  Private profit from leftist cronies stealing the aid isn't that.  A leftist official has since been fired, signaling incompetence and mismanagement, if not corruption.  Those would be from the same leftist commonwealth officials who stood there in front of the TV cameras and denounced Trump as stingy and racist, while lefties on the mainland clapped. 

It should have been obvious enough, back in July, when locals demanded (and got) the resignation of their Clinton-linked governor who let the aid sit in warehouses, whom I wrote about here.

Trump sent aid swiftly and was angry that it sat on the docks as Puerto Rican leftist pols postured for the press.  Remember how San Juan's leftist mayor cried all those crocodile tears against Trump as the press fawned and Democrats claimed her as their own?  Yet Trump said the aid was there, and it generally just went to waste, all because Puerto Rican officials — with weird ties to the Clinton machine, by the way — couldn't lay off the corruption for just a few weeks.

And yet the corruption just keeps rolling out and out, as this latest incident demonstrates.

What, pray tell, would be the purpose of keeping aid from hungry, thirsty, and unroofed people in hideous weather with shambles all around, other than to maybe sneakily sell it in some black-market deal and walk off with the money?  The warehouse break-in and the firing of the official in charge of aid signal that a racket was going on...and now it's there for all to see, just as Trump said it would be.

Yet the press was curiously incurious.

Look at how bad the reporting was back in 2017.  This 2017 Reuters report began with a dishonest characterization of President Trump's refusal to hand billions over to thieves:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A new package of U.S. disaster assistance sailed through the House of Representatives on Thursday, despite President Donald Trump expressing impatience with having to devote federal resources for hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico's recovery.

The report on the Reuters site is still juxtaposed against a picture of a huge fallen tree, rather than a warehouse full of undelivered aid, falsely claiming Trump was somehow impatient with having to "devote" aid to hurricane recovery.  That's just a hint of how dishonest it all was.

Now it's more obvious than ever that Trump was against funding corruption on a Hugo Chávez scale by handing out crony largesse to leftists in their accustomed style.  It's not only Hugo Chávez stuff; it's also Democrat stuff, so redolent of House Biden and other Democrat pocket-lining ventures.

Trump was right all along about the thievery, and he said so. 

Reuters was incurious about that, though, because it had a "narrative" to deliver.  As a result, it got scooped by a mob.