Headline Roundup September 13, 2018
Trump Disputes Hurricane Maria Death Toll, Blames Democrats
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The Washington Post
Few academic studies have received as much media coverage as a new report, published by the New England Journal of Medicine, that the death toll in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria was much higher than official estimates of 64.
A more cautious president might not have praised the fact that there were only 16 recorded deaths in the aftermath of a major hurricane.
Democrats and the media have been pounding President Donald Trump over the past few days, as Hurricane Florence nears the Carolinas, over his alleged insensitivity to deaths in Puerto Rico last year from Hurricane Maria.
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